102 Quotes by Amitava Kumar

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance!

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.