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Author - Amitav Ghosh
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war
Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no....
opium
In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used....
human nature
I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
knowledge
Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not....
desire
One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as greed....
reading
I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not....
prejudice
Why don’t they complain?""They do sometimes. But usually there's nothing in particular to complain....
place
I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.....
present
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify....
love story
This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws....
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