In My Family, As In Most Middle-class

Any Good Society Survives On A Circulation Of Favours.

In A Sense, Journalism Can Be Both Helpful And Detrimental To A Writer Of Fiction Because The Kind Of Writing You Need To Do As A Journalist Is So Different. It Has To Be Clear, Unambiguous, Concise, And As A Writer Often You Are Trying To Do Things That Are More Ambiguous. I Find That Writing Fiction Is Often An Antidote To Reading And Writing Too Much Journalism.

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.

It Has Always Been Very Difficult For Writers To Survive Commercially In India Because The Market Was So Small. But That's Not True At All Any More. It's One Of The World's Fastest Growing And Most Vibrant Markets For Books, Especially In English.

Strange Thoughts Brew In Your Heart When You Spend Too Much Time With Old Books