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Salman Rushdie-Novelist

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. - Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. - Wikipedia

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R. K. Narayan-Writer

Life is about making right things and going on..   -  R.K. Narayan

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (1906-2001) was an Indian writer known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. - Wikipedia

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Kiran Desai-Author

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. - Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai (born 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times, India's leading business publication, listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women. - Wikipedia

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni-Author

Each day has a color, a smell. - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. - Wikipedia

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Sriram Shamasunder-Medical Doctor

Nobody should die from diseases we know how to treat. -  Sriram Shamasunder

An American doctor and UCSF Faculty, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder dedicates five months of the year to working abroad in regions of extreme need. He co-founded and co-directs the first ever Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship at UCSF, which aims to train the next cohort of leaders in Global Health delivery and implementation.

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Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi-Author

Life essentially seeks out balance. I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other. - Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (born 1977) is an Indian author. His debut novel The Last Song of Dusk won the Betty Trask Award, one of UK's most prestigious prizes for debut novels, the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the Best Debut novel, and was nominated for the IMPAC Literary Prize. 

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Arundhati Roy-Author

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. - Arundhati Roy.

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. - Wikipedia

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V S Naipaul-Writer

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. - V S Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018) was Trinidad born English writer of fiction and non-fiction. His parents were of Indian origin. He was the winner of several awards including Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, and Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.

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Jhumpa Lahiri-Author

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. - Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born 1967) is an American author of Indian origin, known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English, and more recently, in Italian. - Wikipedia

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Vikram Seth-Novelist

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well. - Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. - Wikipedia

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Fritjof Capra-Physicist

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. - Fritjof Capra

Fritjof Capra (born 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist, and deep ecologist. In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is on the faculty of Schumacher College. - Wikipedia

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Upamanyu Chatterjee-Author

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity. - Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Joint Secretary to Government of India on the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board. He is a 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Maharashtra Cadre. - Wikipedia

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Aravind Adiga-Writer

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. - Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga (born 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. - Wikipedia

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Mulk Raj Anand-Writer

The trouble with liberal democracy is that it takes a long time to mature. - Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. - Wikipedia

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Lee Kuan Yew-Politician

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline. - Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades. Lee is recognized as the nation's founding father, with the country described as transitioning from the "third world to the first world in a single generation" under his leadership. - Wikipedia

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Arthur Rubinstein-Pianist

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) was a Polish American classical pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as the greatest Chopin interpreter of his time. - Wikipedia

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