Best quotes from authors at the Times LitFest Delhi 2018

"Ideally there shouldn’t be any need for censorship. But we live in a society with sensibilities."

- Prasoon Joshi

"I have toned down from Asura to Vanara... we can continue our tradition of open thought or we can be like medieval Europe or an eastern Saudi Arabia."

- Anand Neelakantan

"Superhero films don’t work in India because it is a borrowed concept. We don’t have masked heroes, we have Baahubali."

- Vikramaditya Motwane

"The political manifestation of Hindutva is aggressive, exclusionist, inflexible, prescriptive. It insists that our point of view is the right point of view and anyone who disagrees is liable to become a lesser Hindu."

- Pavan Verma

"I was forced to move out of my home. I don’t know if I will ever go back to my country. People who support me, people who sympathize with me, they are my home. They are my country."

- Taslima Nasrin

"Why is it that if you are a woman you are either Mother India or you are Lalita Pawar. You are either a virgin or a vamp. Even our narratives in the books showcase the man to be handsome, dashing and successful whereas the woman is at best a kindergarten teacher who is so submissive."

- Meghna Pant

"History is either a glorification of the victorious or the delusion of the defeated."

- Anand Neelakantan

"Keeping up speed with my father was difficult; he wrote three books in the time I wrote four chapters."

- Meghna Gulzar

"Writers are not custodians of morality."

- Anita Nair

"Women need to be romanced. Women are like electric ovens, they take a long time to heat up and then a long time to cool down. Men are like gas stoves, phoom they are on fire and phoom they are off. Women need love to get sex; men go from sex to love."

- Allan Pease