The coop is guarded from the inside.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

The coop is guarded from the inside.

When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.