Quotes by : Amitav Ghosh

In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used....

The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:....

That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the....

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....

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....

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

This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws....

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