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

Bharati Mukherjee

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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Country Daughter Mother
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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Citizens Government Mean
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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Duty Inspire Teacher Teaching
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one’s individuality.
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Individuality Mind Roots
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta:
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Father Home Writing
Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless.
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Mother Taken Winning
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It’s a question of time, not motive.
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Motive Time
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it’s just continuous overload.
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Definitions Littles Madness
I’m sorry, this is too much work, I’m going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.’
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Better Pay Sorry Work
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.
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Probably Runs Unvoiced Young
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
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Children Mind Poetry
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.
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Couple Growing Notebook Up
You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted… I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
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Moment Needed School Taking
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
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Inattention India Real
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
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Fiction Mainstream Reader
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter.
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Daughter Father Mother

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

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