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The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right? - Neel Mukherjee
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In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help. - Neel Mukherjee
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Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me. - Neel Mukherjee
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.' - Neel Mukherjee
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I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that. - Neel Mukherjee
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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule. - Neel Mukherjee
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One writes what one can, or has to, write. - Neel Mukherjee
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I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. - Neel Mukherjee
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I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. - Neel Mukherjee
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To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul. - Neel Mukherjee
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Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside. - Neel Mukherjee
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Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work. - Neel Mukherjee
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Work defines our lives and our place in the world. - Neel Mukherjee
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The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.' - Neel Mukherjee
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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? - Neel Mukherjee
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