Rashid did not give in. Look how his hands move on the contols, he told her. In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous. Soraya snorted with annoyance. H...
Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strin...
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my...
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while ot...
All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cheris...
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn...
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
Rowan (Atkinson) pochmurně přikyvoval a dodal, že nedávno v jednom televizním skeči použil záznam klečících muslimů při páteční modlitbě, podle něj v Teheránu, s následujícím komentářem: A pátrání po...
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Yes, I know there is a fashion nowadays for these Hitler's-valet type memoirs, and many people are against, they say we should not humanise the inhuman. But the point is they are not inhuman, these Ma...
The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpos...
Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.