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“To get the scent of what’s next, and how to tweak and hoist it towards what should be, that’s what he’s about, and he has sensed that it is in heartland writers and English subtitles that his generation will find its tongue.”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife

“I ranted about the fussiness of Japanese grammar over lunch with Koyama-san, the Jakarta-based Japanese mother of a friend of my older son. ‘Not sure how I’m ever going to manage to learn all those conjugations,â€� I groaned. Koyama-san looked at me unblinkingly and replied, ‘I think Pallavi, for you the bigger problem is going to be to learn how to talk softly.”
― Pallavi Aiyar, Orienting: An Indian in Japan

“He never mentions his caste but jokes about his intolerance for spice; he introduces himself not as Naren but Agashe;”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife

“As Anand speaks, Bibi thinks of how interiors bear no resemblance to exteriors in this city. The same could be said of people, except that the relationship is reversed: the exterior coiffed and polished, the interior in ruins.”
― Siddhartha Deb, The Light at the End of the World