Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.
I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
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