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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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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your ...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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Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of comp...more

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it ...more