Top 6 Kiran Desai Quotes

Indian author

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

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In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.