“The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali’s… — Amit Chaudhuri Bengali Copy Share Image
“The city was still .... Soon the machinery would start working again, not out of any sense of purpose, but like a… — Amit Chaudhuri Art work Copy Share Image
“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… — Amit Chaudhuri Calcutta Copy Share Image
“He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back… — Amit Chaudhuri Home Copy Share Image
“On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach,… — Amit Chaudhuri Aunt Copy Share Image
“Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling… — Amit Chaudhuri Electric shock Copy Share Image
“When afternoon came to Vidyasagar Road, wet clothes ... hung from a clothesline which stretched from one side to another on the… — Amit Chaudhuri Clothes Copy Share Image
“Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’… — Amit Chaudhuri Adventure Copy Share Image
“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.” — Amit Chaudhuri Internationalism Copy Share Image
“At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come… — Amit Chaudhuri Beginning Copy Share Image
“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.” — Amit Chaudhuri Calcutta Copy Share Image
“Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It… — Amit Chaudhuri Air Copy Share Image
“the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime” — Amit Chaudhuri Afternoon Copy Share Image
“The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their… — Amit Chaudhuri Food Copy Share Image
“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells… — Amit Chaudhuri Black and white Copy Share Image
“The myth of the Pujas is a simple one – full of rural sweetness. ... The Pujas are, in part, an ever-returning… — Amit Chaudhuri Children Copy Share Image
“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.” — Amit Chaudhuri City Copy Share Image
“This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.” — Amit Chaudhuri Hotel Copy Share Image
“All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which… — Amit Chaudhuri Food Copy Share Image
“The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’. It baffled Ananda… — Amit Chaudhuri Music Copy Share Image
“While reading the Times of India each morning, my father spares a minute for the cartoon by R. K. Laxman. While my… — Amit Chaudhuri Bad weather Copy Share Image
“[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.” — Amit Chaudhuri Art Copy Share Image
“I ... take a selfie with him; two, to be safe. My lips are parted, as if I'm poking a dead thing… — Amit Chaudhuri Life Copy Share Image
“The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam… — Amit Chaudhuri Footprint Copy Share Image
“I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.” — Amit Chaudhuri Vegetarianism Copy Share Image
