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Aravind Adiga
Indian Writer
Born: Oct 23, 1974
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I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood. Aravind Adiga
Father Community Christian Neighborhood Hospital Had Prosperous Catholic Because Hindu Up Privileged Worked Lived Grown Grown-Up
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. Aravind Adiga
Time Great Me World Try Important Society Changes India Brutal Through Writers Highlight Like Likely West Going China Inherit Injustices
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. Aravind Adiga
Country Booming City Indian Almost Town Until Provincial Malls Where Coastal Lived Now Socialist
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. Aravind Adiga
School Libraries Member Borrowed Like Most Read Friends Begin Same Same Things Us Multiple Things
I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. Aravind Adiga
Everywhere Several Immigrant Never Countries Disaster Well Been Very Did Lived
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them. Aravind Adiga
Book People Writing Building White Research Back Find Exactly Pretty Like Tiger Them Then Much Novel Lived
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. Aravind Adiga
People Money First Politician Politicians Relentlessly Collect India Corrupt Silent Indians Seeking Tend Clean Sons Supposedly Cliche First Thing Audience Hear Mock The First Thing Suspicion Dishonest Regard Grin Who Dad Thing Honest
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. Aravind Adiga
Life Crazy Mind Respectable City Seem More Had Share Mainstream New Days Readers Always Years Years Ago Closer Greenwich Greenwich Village Moved New Yorkers Many Even Village Now Among

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