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- Matter
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Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.
- Language
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
- Judgmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.
- Distance
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To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.
- Look
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For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers - their skills and their histories - introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is said by the person holding a megaphone inciting a crowd, or what is said by someone who incites a rumour? And what is the difference between that person and me, sitting in my room imagining something, telling a story?
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the burning aftermath.
- John
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- Nov 07, 2020