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Bharati Mukherjee

Mother Teresa’s detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans’ destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

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 we’d picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

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.’

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn’t regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn’t conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I never have my CNN off, it’s on the whole day. I don’t want to be out of range of television. I’m constantly bombarded by information – Somalia one second, Haiti the next – I need that constant pounding. I couldn’t write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I don’t feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the ’50s, to ‘Father Knows Best’ feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just ‘The Other.’

– Bharati Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, ‘Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.’

– Bharati Mukherjee

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