Quote by Amitav Ghosh

“She had talked of this at length with Kadambari—Mrs. Dutt: Why should it not be possible for these freedoms to be universally available for…

— Amitav Ghosh

“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest…

— Amitav Ghosh

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

— Amitav Ghosh

“Ana (it is I)”

— Amitav Ghosh

“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into a closet…

— Amitav Ghosh

“[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement.”

— Amitav Ghosh

“He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at all: we thought the opposite. We…

— Amitav Ghosh

“already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.”

— Amitav Ghosh

“She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each…

— Amitav Ghosh

“And now, indeed, everything began to look new, unexpected, full of surprises. I had a book in my hands to while away the time,…

— Amitav Ghosh

“Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.”

— Amitav Ghosh

“Why don’t they complain?" "They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain about. Take the case of Hardy's appointment: Who was…

— Amitav Ghosh