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If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

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In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

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Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

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Topics: Almost Booming City Coastal Country Indian Lived Malls Now Provincial Socialist Town Until Where 1980S

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Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

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Topics: Begin Borrowed Friends Libraries Like Member Most Multiple Read Same Same Things School Things Us

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I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

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Topics: Been Countries Did Disaster Everywhere Immigrant Lived Never Several Very Well

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It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.

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Topics: Always Any Because Been Books Commercially Difficult English Fastest Growing India Market Markets More Most Small Survive To Survive True Very Vibrant World Writers

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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

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Topics: Antithesis Bombay Canada City Greatest Guess Having Living Luxury Must Plenty Sense Some Space

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When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

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Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

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Topics: About Complain Corrupt Corruption Honest India Know Like Live Men Most People Secretly Who Worry I Can

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Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

~Aravind Adiga

Topics: Always Among City Closer Crazy Days Even Greenwich Had Life Mainstream Many Mind More Moved New New Yorkers Now Readers Respectable Seem Share Village Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: October 23rd, 1974

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