Zitat des Tages von Vikas Swarup:
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
