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Amitav Ghosh quotes: It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.

It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: When I look into my past the river seems to meet my eyes, staring back, as if to ask, Do you recognize me, wherever you are? Recognition

When I look into my past the river seems to meet my eyes, staring back, as if to ask, Do you recognize me, wherever you are? Recognition

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around.

Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.

I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...

Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.

Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches,

But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches,

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

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

Amitav Ghosh quotes: He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives.

He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.

Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Sometimes beauty is like curse,

Sometimes beauty is like curse,

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?

Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?

Amitav Ghosh quotes: It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.

It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Nabadwip, a centre of piety and learning consecrated to the memory of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - saint, mystic, and devotee of Sri Krishna.

Nabadwip, a centre of piety and learning consecrated to the memory of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - saint, mystic, and devotee of Sri Krishna.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Whether he was with her or not, her voice had always been in his head;

Whether he was with her or not, her voice had always been in his head;

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.

There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:

Amitav Ghosh quotes: ( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.

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

Amitav Ghosh quotes: And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied.

And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .

The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .

Amitav Ghosh quotes: From the older ox the younger learns to plough.

From the older ox the younger learns to plough.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...

Amitav Ghosh quotes: I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The only way to find out was to try.

The only way to find out was to try.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

Amitav Ghosh quotes: I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible.

I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders,

Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders,

Amitav Ghosh quotes: He recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come,

He recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come,

Amitav Ghosh quotes: That he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting

That he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.

The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.

We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: We knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.

We knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The last few months had passed in a kind of delirium

The last few months had passed in a kind of delirium

Amitav Ghosh quotes: The government to you is what God is to agnosticsonly to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics
only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: Dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when

Dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when

Amitav Ghosh quotes: That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.

Amitav Ghosh quotes: I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.