My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
I don’t think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel’s more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers – their skills and their histories – introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
