My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Use your art to fight.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.