Aravind Adiga Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

  31 Copy quote

• Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

  Aravind Adiga

  Favour, Circulation

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

• In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

• Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Winning, Men, Faithful Servants

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Work Out, India, Ribs

  "Roars of anger". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

• ...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

  Aravind Adiga

  Lying, Men, Phones

  4 Copy quote

• Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Business, Drinking

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

• Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Loathing, Masters

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

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

  Aravind Adiga

  Wall, Broken, India

  5 Copy quote

• Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

  Aravind Adiga

  Philosophy, Animal, Sentences

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Jan 15, 2012

  7 Copy quote

• I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

  Aravind Adiga

  Cities, Grandfather, Four

  8 Copy quote

• In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

  Aravind Adiga

  Fun, Office, Routine

  5 Copy quote

• But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Way, World

  5 Copy quote

• What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

  Aravind Adiga

  Government, Heroism, India

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

• Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

  Aravind Adiga

  Cities, Luxury, Space

  8 Copy quote

• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

  4 Copy quote

• Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Heart, Too Much

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Growing Up, Class, My Family

  6 Copy quote

• If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

  Aravind Adiga

  Past, Men, Spit

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

• Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

  Aravind Adiga

  Speak English, Speak, Said

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

  9 Copy quote

• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

  13 Copy quote

• Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Strong, Men

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

• Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Writing, Class

  7 Copy quote

• Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Socialist Countries, Cities

  4 Copy quote

• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

  Aravind Adiga

  Effectiveness, Political, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician" by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin