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For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.

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.

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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.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

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.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

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.

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

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.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

Why does the American cyberindustry have a thing for Indians?

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...

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...

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

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.

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

Writing gives me the license to go, explore, and learn about the world.

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

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