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…

— Amitav Ghosh

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Amitav Ghosh

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

— 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…

— 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:…

— Amitav Ghosh

“I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing…

— Amitav Ghosh

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,…

— Amitav Ghosh

“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”

— Amitav Ghosh

“There seemed never to be a moment when he was not haunted by the fear of being thought lacking by his British…

— Amitav Ghosh

[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea…

— Amitav Ghosh

“yet the very name Ganga-Sagar, joining, as it did, river and sea, clear and dark, known and hidden, served to remind the…

— Amitav Ghosh

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden…

— Amitav Ghosh

“If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group…

— Amitav Ghosh

“Whatever the case, he saw now that it was a rare, difficult and improbable thing for two people from worlds apart to…

— Amitav Ghosh

“(...) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.”

— Amitav Ghosh

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

— Amitav Ghosh

“There is something strikingly different about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour,…

— Amitav Ghosh

I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why…

— Amitav Ghosh