Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adigais an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1974
CountryIndia
beautiful gun boys
Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
speak-english speak said
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
money cash language
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
sweet men smell
You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
dad son people
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.
beautiful lessons-to-be-learned lesson-learned
The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave
country brother lying
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.
life years keys
I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open
men past growing
A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.
genuine-concern roosters mystery
We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,
men stories body
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
important trying world
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.
country writing class
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.
sleep men differences
You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.