Quotes by : Amit Chaudhuri

Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle,....

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

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

Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign....

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

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility,....

At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years....

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

So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent....

There must be other leaps in life - as momentous as the "mirror stage" - that Lacan didn't mention. Some....