The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.

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

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.