culture Quotes

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.