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“Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.”

— Aravind Adiga

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India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

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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.

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In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

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Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

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Life

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If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

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Education

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