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The sentence of the day comes from a piece by Mridula Koshy<\/a> on Malayalam literature:<\/p>\n

\n

Malayalam writers are in the enviable position of writing for<\/i> Adiga’s rickshaw puller and not just about<\/i> him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘Enviable’ is exactly the right word there. Indian writers in English don’t have access to that rickshaw puller as a reader—quite apart from the fact that most of us wouldn’t have the ability to make it worth his while even if he read in English. By virtue of the language we write in, our readerships in our own country are constrained. At the same time, of course, it is easier for us to reach out to a global audience—though I wish some of our writers didn’t pander only to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As long as India in all its mad and magnificent diversity is available to me as subject matter, I can live with the fact that my possible readership is just a small fraction of my countrymen. If she can’t be my lover, I’ll make her my muse.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

While on Koshy<\/a>, her debut collection of short stories, If It Is Sweet<\/i>, is out in the market. I’ve only read one story so far from the collection, “The Good Mother”<\/a>, and I was blown away by it. Right at that masterful first paragraph, you know this woman can write. I can’t wait to get at the rest of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sentence of the day comes from a piece by Mridula Koshy<\/a> on Malayalam literature:<\/p>\n

\n

Malayalam writers are in the enviable position of writing for<\/i> Adiga’s rickshaw puller and not just about<\/i> him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

‘Enviable’ is exactly the right word there. Indian writers in English don’t have access to that rickshaw puller as a reader—quite apart from the fact that most of us wouldn’t have the ability to make it worth his while even if he read in English. By virtue of the language we write in, our readerships in our own country are constrained. At the same time, of course, it is easier for us to reach out to a global audience—though I wish some of our writers didn’t pander only to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As long as India in all its mad and magnificent diversity is available to me as subject matter, I can live with the fact that my possible readership is just a small fraction of my countrymen. If she can’t be my lover, I’ll make her my muse.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

While on Koshy<\/a>, her debut collection of short stories, If It Is Sweet<\/i> is out in the market. I’ve only read one story so far from the collection, “The Good Mother”<\/a>, and I was blown away by it. Right at that masterful first paragraph, you know this woman can write. I can’t wait to get at the rest of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nAdiga\u2019s Rickshaw Puller - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/adigas-rickshaw-puller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adiga\u2019s Rickshaw Puller - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The sentence of the day comes from a piece by Mridula Koshy on Malayalam literature: Malayalam writers are in the enviable position of writing for Adiga’s rickshaw puller and not just about him. ‘Enviable’ is exactly the right word there. 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