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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taki...more

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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people a...more

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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India,...more

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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition does...more

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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. India...more

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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. F...more

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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.