Deepti Kapoor > Quotes

“You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“They want me to have a beautiful surface and be rotten to the core, like they are.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“If you use any of this, just remember, nothing will change, this is Kali Yuga, the losing age, the age of vice.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“The only thing he’s guilty of is ambition. Of rising above his station. Did my father cut corners on the way? Yes. This is India. The game is rigged, the rules are stacked, you people make the rules in the first place. You already have everything, and you don’t want to share. So sometimes things must be taken.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It’s so easy to be charming when you’re rich.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Finally, understand this one thing. India is our country, not yours. You are guests here. We are great hosts, but don’t disrespect us in our own home.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“But this? This is not development. This is looting. If land is to be acquired, it must be done fairly. The people must be compensated, not only monetarily, but with jobs, with dignity, with a future. Not a Shunya future, a real future, a people’s future. Do you know what Shunya means? Nothing.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“But you scratch the surface, it’s crumbling, it’s dying, there’s no future on that miserable island. The same in America. You think India is poor? Go and travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpacker in Paharganj wanders around crying about our poverty, shaking his head, taking pity on us, taking photos for the people back home.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Before Ajay took a breath he was already mourned.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“It is as clear as someone crying in church.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“And smile. You’re a Wadia man now. No one will ever steal from you again.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“know you come from a place,” Daddy says, “where they hold many backward customs and beliefs. Many rules and customs that are true to the reality of your world. But we’re free of that here, and so you are free now. Do you understand?”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Our dreams let people die.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Dean laughed. His laugh was the laughter of the defeated, the man at the end of his rope, with nothing to lose, the man with whom the gods have done their business.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“But the cat was out of the bag; in response to draconian tactics, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, farmers began to organize across caste lines, with Jat and Thakur landowners joining forces with cattle-rearing Gujars and the poor, uncompensated Jatav and Dalit workers who farm their lands.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“At every step, the Wadias and Singhs skimming off the top, the bottom, the middle.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“He sits halfway between holy and profane.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“I think you’re depressed, man. Frankly speaking.” “Fuck off.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“You think I don’t know,” Bunty says, “about the trafficking. About those girls?” “I assumed you turned a blind eye.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“He was an art dealer, a party planner, a restaurateur, a provocateur. He was the son of a multimillionaire from the States. Or a dot-com millionaire himself. No one seemed to know for sure. But he was the vanguard, the architect, the patron saint, on the fringes of anything new or exciting or strange.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“You think India is poor? Go and travel around America. I couldn’t believe it. Meanwhile some backpacker in Paharganj wanders around crying about our poverty, shaking his head, taking pity on us, taking photos for the people back home. Take a look at your own backyard. Study your history, man. You people looted us, took everything, stole our treasures. Now you look at us and say, ‘You’re so spiritual, you have so much wisdom, you’re so wise, you’re so . . . simple.’ Yeah, we’re simple, fucker. We’re simply going to destroy you. They don’t want us to, they don’t want us to be strong, to have heart, wit, resilience, ingenuity, wealth, power, but we are, but we do.”
― Deepti Kapoor

“But some of the foreigners begin to grumble. These Indians, some say, don’t understand their own culture; they have been infected by the West. It’s a sad sign, how they’ve lost their way.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“You actually think I want to go off and make a hotel with you? A hotel?! Pull myself up by my bootstraps? With you?! Sunny, my boy, you’re nothing on your own.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“He surveyed them, his false friends, and despised them all, and was secretly glad in his heart because he was corrupting them. He was giving and giving and giving in the knowledge that when they needed him most he could take it all away.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“No fields to work in, nothing to work together for. People turned to drink. Drugs. All I knew was to work together. Now everyone was just in their own worlds. Buying more cars.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Ma’am,” one of the group chimes in, speaking languid, London-tinged English. “With all due respect, if you learned the language of this country, you’d know we weren’t talking about you.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Everyone said she would become infected by his blood, that she would turn into one of them now. I had to laugh at their stupidity.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“I’m Rekha. Write that down! We helped build your homes! We cooked your food! We guarded your homes in the night! We chased away thieves when they came! And this is what you do!”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“Don’t be so naive. The hospitals have no medicine. Why? It gets stolen, sold on the black market. To whom? Private hospitals? Who steals it? Who sells it? Who owns the private hospitals? You know who. There’s a pattern emerging. Everything public ends up stripped down, sold, taken away. But what is there in abundance? Liquor.”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice

“There’s nothing you could have done.” “There’s nothing I could have done! And it all just keeps happening”
― Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice