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Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.

History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food.

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.