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I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Always Another Back Best Coming Depression Era Father Feel Glorious Knows Looking Looking Back People See Who I Can

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I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Belong Different Different Kind Empowered Feel Filters Here Kind Light Longer More Stay Very Work Writer I Feel

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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Audience Being Books Brought Conceive Fiction Germ Got Indian Indians Lost Me North North American Regard Up Wheat White Writer

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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Another Any Anywhere Attachment Been Celebrate Century City Civic Culture Dying Dysfunction Equal Fierce Labels Language Love More Politics Reflex Resent Stereotyping Than World

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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Between Childhood Down Freak Gravel Her Indian Mother Mother Teresa Nuns One Or Two Opinions Our Path Picked Picture Red Remember She Short Thought Tow Two Up Woman Would Young I Remember

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Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Against Beyond Child Coin Common Convinced Dropping Even Every Extending Had Help India Infection Lead Leper Over Part Sight Spot Touching Two Were Would

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Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Accused Achievement Battles Causes Context Conversion Could Criticisms Her Knew Lost Me Mother Mother Teresa Overall Seems She Taken Together Took Undermine Win Work

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Writer

Born: July 27th, 1940

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