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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an artless serf of Cupid.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.'
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I've tried to do in 'The Lovers.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020