Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamidis a British Pakistani novelist and writer. His novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionWriter
CountryPakistan
self imagine easy
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
thinking encounters should
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
thinking borders reduction
think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.
mean bigs resorts
How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?
thinking ideas people
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.
thinking self links
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.
mean thinking rude
You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.
mean thinking people
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people from all over the world who want to engage in these activities gravitate to. They're going now to places like Syria or Yemen Libya, elsewhere.