You Can't Expect A Man

It Has Always Been Very Difficult For Writers To Survive Commercially In India Because The Market Was So Small. But That's Not True At All Any More. It's One Of The World's Fastest Growing And Most Vibrant Markets For Books, Especially In English.

You Can't Expect A Man In A Dung Heap To Smell Sweet.

Never Before In Human History Have So Few Owed So Much To So Many, Mr. Jiabao. A Handful Of Men In This Country Have Trained The Remaining 99.9 Percent—as Strong, As Talented, As Inteligent In Every Way—to Exist In Perpetual Servitude; A Servitude So Strong That You Can Put The Key Of His Emancipation In A Man's Hands And He Will Throw It Back At You With A Curse.

Too Much Of Indian Writing In English, It Seemed To Me, Consisted Of Middle-class People Writing About Other Middle-class People - And A Small Slice Of Life Being Passed Off As An Authentic Portrait Of The Country.

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 Water, Electricity, Sewage System, Public Transportation, Sense Of Hygiene, Discipline, Courtesy, Or Punctuality, ‘’does’’ Have Entrepreneurs. Thousands And Thousands Of Them. Especially In The Field Of Technology. And These Entrepreneurs—"we" Entrepreneurs—have Set Up All These Outsourcing Companies That Virtually Run America Now.