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Anita Rau Badami

"In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women."

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Anita Rau Badami

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“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.”

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“The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, youâ€™ll also, by implication â€¦ believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.”
“The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.”
“The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.”
“It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.”
“I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.”
“[Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.”
“Writing is a supernatural thing.”

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