Bharati Mukherjee quote: "I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'"

I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming poo...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never ...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two comman...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North American...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at al...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of hap...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a p...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of ...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters in...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scu...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't rea...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lync...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond d...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and o...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of televisio...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Fath...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

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

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a t...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not ack...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as ...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Ind...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to th...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE

You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa Cit...
BHARATI MUKERIEE

We have hired an entire train and about 1,500 sex workers accompanied by intellectuals and social ac...
BHARATI DEY

She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions.
UMA BHARATI

I seek your cooperation and support for my candidate. I hope you will consider my proposal seriously...
UMA BHARATI

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated g...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of t...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pa...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu....
NEEL MUKHERJEE

As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my v...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers t...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We sai...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something a...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a mod...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radi...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary pri...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words,...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reo...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing pa...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a docto...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cell...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when ...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flic...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments....
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many dif...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we pl...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at t...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Pro...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also moder...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quali...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization tha...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simpl...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort o...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recen...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the lo...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) par...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, it...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of c...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

All my life’s work will drain away without ever being realized. For a sculptor, working with their...
RADHIKA MUKHERJEE

What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being co...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of ...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically matu...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

The problem with racial discrimination, though, is not the inference of a person's race from their g...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

If the history of the last century taught us the dangers of empowering governments to determine gene...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes in...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
NEEL MUKHERJEE

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated perso...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

No one is coming here for philanthropy. I'll welcome foreign investment, whatever the industry, as l...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

I smell a scam here.
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

The PM may have said it, but the civil aviation minister has not said anything about employee's dema...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

If you are showing the example of a hi-tech Chinese airport then also show stories of their revoluti...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

We want to know what they have done with the report.
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

The government will have to provide budgetary provision for the purpose...we demand that the rate of...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

The UPA Government owes an explanation to the entire working class.
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

These groups try to give a religious and communal color to everything. They are trying to divert the...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films An...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai ...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far mo...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this -...
NEEL MUKHERJEE

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this id...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science researc...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of tr...
RADHIKA MUKHERJEE

It was like dawn, and then dusk cascading over the Himalayas. First, the gradual brightening over sn...
RADHIKA MUKHERJEE

Pakistan's point of view is when we have agreed to withdraw ... what is the relevance (of this) afte...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE

When a disease insinuates itself so potently into the imagination of an era, it is often because it ...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel; the microscope; the a...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to st...
SUBRAHMANYA C. BHARATI

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

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