Anand Giridharadas Quotes

United States, Author
September 27, 1981

Anand Giridharadas/ˈɑːnənd ˌɡɪrɪˌdɑːrəˈdɑːs/ (born September 27, 1981) is an American author and newspaper columnist. He has written for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He is the author of two books, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (2011) and The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014). Much of his writing has focused on India and its people.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

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- America
- Mother
The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

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- May
- Responsibility

Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.

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- American
- Trump
America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

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- America
I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah.

Anand Giridharadas