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Suketu Mehta Quotes

born 1963 United States

Suketu Mehta (born 1963) is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Mumbai where he lived until his family moved to New York City in 1977.

United States
Journalists
Short story writers

Also known as: Maximum City

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Essentially what I said was that people are coming to rich countries from poor countries not because they want to, but because rich countries had stolen the futures of poor countries.

...I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come here did so to forget history, to turn their backs on history.

At the age of fourteen I had experienced a miracle. I turned on a tap, and clean water came gushing out.

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Suketu Mehta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.