Quotes by : Amit Chaudhuri

Tinkling sounds came from outside, of hammering and chiselling, as labourers worked like bees, and seven-....

The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous,....

While reading the Times of India each morning, my father spares a minute for the cartoon by R. K. Laxman.....

At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like....

The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’.....

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

The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for....

When afternoon came to Vidyasagar Road, wet clothes ... hung from a clothesline which stretched from....

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

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