[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. - Bharati Mukherjee - Quotesmemo.com

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bharati Mukherjee

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta. '

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A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

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Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

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