Kunal Sen

“self-annihilation is necessary for high art”

— Kunal Sen

“I had no eyelashes left. So when I cried, the tears rolled down, unabated to my mouth. My saliva tasted those days,…

— Kunal Sen

“Baby, I bear remnants of you on my body, on my soul. I always have, I always will, gladly. I just want…

— Kunal Sen

“She taught me how to wear a Tangail saree, she taught me Julius Caesar. She taught me how to deal with the…

— Kunal Sen

“There would remain no sign of you ever having played in this house. Your childhood is going to be swept under a…

— Kunal Sen

“I want to kiss your forehead; my love now is so evolved. I want to hold your hand and see all the…

— Kunal Sen

“I had wanted to hate you that day. Believe me, I had. And then suddenly, staring at me incredulously, your extra half-tooth…

— Kunal Sen

“I remember being in the mood for love at the slightest provocation- your nubile body feeling undeniably illicit, under mine, rhyming, heaving,…

— Kunal Sen

“I shall remain thankful to you for the tenderness of your arms that held me when I wept onto your shoulder, and…

— Kunal Sen

“When we were children, Bapi used to dress us up in the same clothes, going to Apsara for ‘Titanic’ or reruns of…

— Kunal Sen

“Most of what we got was crockery: from exotic crystal bowls to ceramic anomalies. Then, a cross-section of rugs- from a beautiful…

— Kunal Sen

“For feverish mornings after he left, she lay awake in that guest room in their house, in the rumples of the sheet…

— Kunal Sen

“At eighteen, she already looks like a woman of sorrows and as her breaths start becoming shorter, tired of looking over her…

— Kunal Sen

“Why weren’t you beautiful? That would’ve solved everything.’ ('Left from Dhakeshwari')”

— Kunal Sen

“But think of me fondly right till the end. Think of me always as your brother's friend. Think of me whenever you…

— Kunal Sen

“She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full,…

— Kunal Sen

“In those hours when the night is still dark and cold, we see Alokananda waking up to the faint sound of stifled…

— Kunal Sen

“Whenever the sadness got too much, I would hire a rickshaw and go to the Upper Bazaar. Those little rickshaw trips to…

— Kunal Sen

“The last thing Farinoush did on several nights just before she went to bed was to rummage through her cardboard box of…

— Kunal Sen

“Back then, come July, and the blazers would again make their way out of the steel trunks and evenings would be spent…

— Kunal Sen

“In your rare embrace, sometimes I am lost nowadays. In these years, you have changed. I have changed. Every single day, we’re…

— Kunal Sen

“She had been hesitant the first night, right before she had launched into him like a wild animal. The imprint of her…

— Kunal Sen

“That was our first home. Before I felt like an island in an ocean, before Calcutta, before everything that followed. You know…

— Kunal Sen