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It is astonishing that now a whole generation has grown up reading Indian literature in English. Nothing was being read when I was a student. We read no Indian writers at all.

— Anita Desai The Guardian (2011)

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It is a great influence on one's thoughts to be always on the outside, not belonging.

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She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived. (III, p110)

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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. (Baruch College Class Interview, 2003)

I think everything one reads tends to linger on in one's writing, even after one's forgotten the book one's read. (The Massachusetts Review, 1988)

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