Gopal MS

“To get the scent of what’s next, and how to tweak and hoist it towards what should be, that’s what he’s about, and he has sensed that it is in heartland writers and English subtitles that his generation will find its tongue.”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife

“He never mentions his caste but jokes about his intolerance for spice; he introduces himself not as Naren but Agashe;”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife

“We would also like to point out that “Monkey Man” was the westernised version of the name, a clever, polite, convenient media translation of the kind applied once to the words of a famous Indian leader when he described Muslims as “kutte ke bachche” and found it rendered as the Hallmark-sanitised “puppies”. If one were to reverse the translation, and go from English to Hindi, New Delhi Monkey Man would, in the exquisitely racist, casteist and classist way of Indians, become Black Monkey or Kala Bandar.”
― Siddhartha Deb, The Light at the End of the World

“Rohit says with the confidence of that age when you discover the pleasure of opinion, and surprised to find adults listening, you fall in love with your voice.”
― Devika Rege, Quarterlife