Aravind Adiga

They’re so yesterday.
I am tomorrow.

I am a self-taught entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.

About three years ago, when I became, briefly, a person of national importance owing to an act of entrepreneurship, a poster with my face on it found its way to every post office, railway station, and police station in this country.

Age: Between 25 and 35. Complexion: Blackish. Face: Oval. Height: Five feet four inches estimated. Build: Thin, Small.

came home that day and told my father that the schoolteacher had given me a new name. He shrugged. ‘If it’s what he wants, then we’ll call you that.’
So I was Balram from then on.

Balram Halwai alias MUNNA…

Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness.

The Buffalo was one of the landlords in Laxmangarh.

There were three others, and each had got his name from the peculiarities of appetite that had been detected in him.