Quotes by : Amitav Ghosh

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing....

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

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

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

How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain,....

One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed....

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

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

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the....

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