Vivek Shanbhag

“Ours is a joint family. We live in the same house - my wife and I, my parents, my uncle and Malati.…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have robe made elsewhere. The…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“It’s true what they say—it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. I had grown up among them – how…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“there’s a vast difference in the moral underpinnings of a business family and the household of a salaried teacher. I”

— Vivek Shanbhag