"While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in Washington DC. This would have helped the city enormously, as he was the detective who cracked the '93 blasts case. But the commissioner declined to let his subordinate take up the offer from Rand, because of his fear that it was CIA-affiliated. That culture of suspicion needs to change; India needs to learn how other democracies fight terror."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Suketu Mehta

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.”
“I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.”
“To accept duality is to earn identity.”

Source : Joss Whedon's Commencement Addressn at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.
“I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.”

Source : "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.
“A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.”
“I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.”
“For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.”
“if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.”

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