Kiran Desai Thoughts

Best 20+ Kiran Desai Messages, Quotes, and Images

Kiran Desai Thoughts

Kiran Desai Thoughts

Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

Author: Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai Quotes Images

Kiran Desai Quotes Images

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

Author: Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai Messages

Kiran Desai Messages

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.

Author: Kiran Desai

Short Kiran Desai Quotes

Short Kiran Desai Quotes

If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Author: Kiran Desai

Simple Kiran Desai Messages

Simple Kiran Desai Messages

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

Author: Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai Thoughts

Kiran Desai Thoughts

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Author: Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai Messages Images

Kiran Desai Messages Images

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

Author: Kiran Desai

Short Kiran Desai Messages

Short Kiran Desai Messages

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.

Author: Kiran Desai

Unique Kiran Desai Thoughts

Unique Kiran Desai Thoughts

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Author: Kiran Desai

1 2 3

You May Also Like

I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

Author: C.V. Raman

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Author: Chanda Kochhar

We have to find the intermediate ways and means of restoring a degree of stability to our politics and more than a degree of safety to our citizens

We have to find the intermediate ways and means of restoring a degree of stability to our politics and more than a degree of safety to our citizens

Author: JRD Tata

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Be a light unto oneself

Be a light unto oneself

Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

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.

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.

Author: Kiran Desai