Indian Diaspora Quotes

#1. The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.

Kiran Desai

#2. Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

Jairam Ramesh

#4. I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.

Shekhar Kapur

#5. Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.

Ashwin Sanghi

#6. Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead.

Ken Follett

#7. It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

Michael Bolton

#8. Even the help wanted ads in the back of Science or Nature can give you a clue as to what technology is hot.

Deborah Blum

#9. Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Mason Cooley

#10. The Indian community in the U.K. has a unique place in our diaspora. U.K. is the first country which has an Indian community truly representative of its diversity.

Preneet Kaur

#11. I should have told You
before talking in terms of Forever
that any given day wears me out and works me sour,
that there are nights when the sky is so clear
I stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for the stars to shoot at me
just so I can feel at Home.

Buddy Wakefield

#12. The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#13. I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

Sophie Aldred

#14. Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.

Neil MacGregor

#15. Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Albert Einstein

#16. I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

Sharad Pawar