Aravind Adiga Quotes

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen hum...

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with s...

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - shoul...

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't...

And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, ...

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold m...

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world ...

Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation ...

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on t...

O, I do read Indian novels sometimes. But you know, Ms Rupinder, what we Indians want in literature,...

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepr...

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleepin...

People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, f...

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, ...

Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the M...

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the to...

Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political par...

The worst part of being a driver is that you have hours to yourself while waiting for your employer....

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and...

He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin ...

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do ...

Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government ...

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in o...

The two of them kept an eye open for every tree or temple we passed by, and turned to me for a react...

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about gi...

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of pe...

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men...

There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep payi...

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You k...