From Khuswant Singh's autobiography - got from here:
“But, to be honest, what inspired me to write were not great authors but second-rates, mainly Indians, who had been published in England and the United States. I read Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan. I felt I could write as well as they, and if they could be published abroad, so would I. I was not far wrong in my self-estimate.”
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