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India is about six times the size of France, he went on, as theglass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at ourtable. But it has almost twenty times the population. Twentytimes! Believe me, if there were a billion Frenchmen living i nsuch a crowded space, there would be rivers of blood. Rivers o fblood! And, as everyone knows, we French are the most civilisedpeople in Europe. Indeed, in the whole world. No, no, withoutlove, India would be impossible.

Gregory David Roberts

India is about six times the size of France, he went on, as theglass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at ourtable. But it has almost twenty times the population. Twentytimes! Believe me, if there were a billion Frenchmen living i nsuch a crowded space, there would be rivers of blood. Rivers o fblood! And, as everyone knows, we French are the most civilisedpeople in Europe. Indeed, in the whole world. No, no, withoutlove, India would be impossible.

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About Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith; 1952) is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years.