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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

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I am a naturalized U. S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U. S. government that I merited citizenship.

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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

Childhood, Mother, Teresa, Two, Unvoiced, Woman

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta. '

Attachment, Celebrate, Cities, Civic, Dysfunction, Politics

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

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[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

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