Quotes from Aravind Adiga

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.