8 Bharati Mukherjee Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bharati Mukherjee

Indian Writer

Born: Jul 27, 1940

American Father Me Mother Myself School

Related authors: Amitava Kumar Aravind Adiga Munshi Premchand Neel Mukherjee Om Malik Pico Iyer Shakuntala Devi

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Bharati Mukherjee

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I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class. Bharati Mukherjee

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In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. Bharati Mukherjee

Consequences Pedestrian India Drivers Spot Real Who Jeopardize

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded. Bharati Mukherjee

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I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era. Bharati Mukherjee

Depression Best People Father Looking Looking Back Glorious Back See Feel Knows Another Always Era Coming Who

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room. Bharati Mukherjee

Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. Bharati Mukherjee

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