22 Quotes by Suketu Mehta

This is the biggest difference between the world’s two largest democracies: In India, the poor vote.

A hit man’s character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.

Democracies have a weakness: If a bad law has enough money or people behind it, it stays on the books.

Europeans extracted an estimated 222,505,049 hours of forced labour from African slaves between 1619 and 1865. Valued at the US minimum wage, with a modest rate of interest, that’s worth $97 trillion – more than the entire global GDP.