A Man's Past Keeps Growing, Even When

Neither You Nor I Speak English, But There Are Some Things That Can Be Said Only In English.

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.

I Want To Read Keats And Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

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.

Any Good Society Survives On A Circulation Of Favours.