Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking… - Aravind Adiga

Go to Old Delhi, behind the Jama Masjid, and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundreds of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire mesh cages, packed as tightly as worms in a belly, pecking each other and shitting on each other, jostling just for breathing space; the whole cage giving off a horrible stench—the stench of terrified, feathered flesh. On the wooden desk above this coop sits a grinning young butcher, showing off the flesh and organs of recently chopped-up chicken, still oleaginous with a coating of dark blood. The roosters in the coop smell the blood from above. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them. They know they’re next. Yet they do not rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop.<p>The very same thing is done with human beings in this country.

The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.<p>Instead of which, they’re all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.