“A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mund...” — Amitava Kumar Quote

“A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.”

“Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I did that, too, or maybe I started doing it in imitation.”

“An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.”

“I believe Ryan Reynolds is magic. He's a magical human being.”

“There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.”

“There's something just magical about flight. Period.”