“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.” — Amit Chaudhuri Calcutta 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
“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 Freshness Copy Share Image
“the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime” — Amit Chaudhuri Afternoon Copy Share Image
“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.” — Amit Chaudhuri Internationalism 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.” — Amit Chaudhuri Brahmins 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
“I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.” — Amit Chaudhuri Vegetarianism Copy Share Image
“The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.” — Amit Chaudhuri Bengali 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
“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.” — Amit Chaudhuri Book Copy Share Image
“Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.” — Amit Chaudhuri Books Copy Share Image
“Only drunks stare at statues … I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.” — Amit Chaudhuri Drunks 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
“The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to… — Amit Chaudhuri Christ Copy Share Image
“Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady,… — Amit Chaudhuri Kettle Copy Share Image
“... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.” — Amit Chaudhuri Belching 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
“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
“Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.” — Amit Chaudhuri Art 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
“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled… — Amit Chaudhuri Class Copy Share Image
“At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she… — Amit Chaudhuri Accident 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 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
“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
“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened… — Amit Chaudhuri Armchair Copy Share Image
“Years ago, my mother and I fell in love with Busybee’s voice, its calm, even tone, and a smile which was always… — Amit Chaudhuri Father 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
“The detective embodies, even more than the romantic drifter, rationality; this intriguing and apparent dichotomy pertains to a significant part of Bengali… — Amit Chaudhuri Adventure Copy Share Image
“Its (the Left’s) intensity derives from the fact that it’s a family largely composed of, in a manner of speaking, orphans of… — Amit Chaudhuri Books Copy Share Image
“Tinkling sounds came from outside, of hammering and chiselling, as labourers worked like bees, and seven- or eight-storeyed buildings rose in the… — Amit Chaudhuri House Copy Share Image
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