Owing Quotes

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

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.

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.