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“I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.”

Half England British Theatre Indian Dialect

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.”

America Black England Independence Democratic France Indian Latin Progressive Republic Heritage Mexico Liberated Latin America Colony Barbaric Democratic Republic

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.”

Ifs Writing Book Character Written Negative England Backgrounds Indian Capability

Author:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.”

People Way War Country Running Used Standards India England Indian Ran Attacking Predecessors

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.”

Source: Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation

“England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.”

England France Chinese Indian Cuisine

Author:Eva Green

“England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.”

Years Two Interesting England Indian Colonization

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.”

“In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.”

Fate India England Miles Indian Squares Chained Trinidad

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.”

People Firsts Made Alive Mines England Slave Made It Indian Gentleman Witch Ancestor Exquisite Orphan New England Tropical Salem

Author:Mark Twain