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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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