Author: Aravind Adiga

Quotes

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

- Aravind Adiga

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

- Aravind Adiga

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

- Aravind Adiga

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

- Aravind Adiga

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

- Aravind Adiga

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