Electric shock Quote by Amit Chaudhuri

“The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali’s appetite for…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“The city was still … Soon the machinery would start working again, not out of any sense of purpose, but like a watch that…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“the world’s cheapest small car, Tata’s Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if it had…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“When afternoon came to Vidyasagar Road, wet clothes ... hung from a clothesline which stretched from one side to another on the veranda of…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’ (‘Rain falls…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime”

— Amit Chaudhuri