"September 11th has a tragic resonance in the Middle East, too. On the 11th of September 1922, ignoring Arab outrage, …"

"As the essays kept appearing, so did the five male lawyers (not the same ones, different ones, but they seemed to hun…"

"Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn'…"

"Here is a list of the countries that America has been at war with - and bombed - since the second world war: China (1…"

"I remember sitting in a lecture hall in a college in Hyderabad in front of an audience of five or six hundred student…"

"The God of Small Things, published in the summer of 1997, was the result of a search for a language and a form to des…"

"Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world."

"In a situation like the one that prevails in Gujarat, when the police are reluctant to register firs, when the admini…"

"The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't …"

"People rarely win wars, governments rarely (completely) lose them. People (do completely) get killed."