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

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Aravind Adiga
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 23
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Madras
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English
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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.
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The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
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We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.
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Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
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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.
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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.
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I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)
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It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
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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.
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Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.
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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
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Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.
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India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
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Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free
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If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
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Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
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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.
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