Pico Iyer
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"Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer", known as "Pico Iyer", is a United Kingdom/British-born essayist and novelist of Indian origin. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul. An essayist for Time (magazine)/Time since 1986, he also publishes regularly in Harper's Magazine/Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and many other publications.

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.