“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.” HandsWaterDarkRichCarWindowEmptyGoldEggsCracksBottlesNow And ThenMineralsFlingDazzlingDelhiWater BottlesBanglesMineral Water Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.” HeartMadeSelfHandsSufferingInterestBehindsMysteryMastersMy HeartConcernLipsGenuineServantMotiveLockedSelf InterestLoathingSoothingLoatheFacadeRoostersGenuine Concern Author:Aravind Adiga
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.” MenWayHumansCountryHandsStrongKeysPercentCursePerpetualHuman HistoryHandfulEmancipationServitude Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger
“Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.” IfsMenWayHumansWellsLooksStillsDoneHandsJobsBoysDoubtFateHonestyTablesTeaNo DoubtShopsFortySincerityDedicationUniformsSpidersCrushedRagsCrawlingSluggish Book:The White Tiger: A Novel Source: The White Tiger: A Novel
