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Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.
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Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
Amitava Kumar
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
Amitava Kumar