Famous Amitav Ghosh Quotes

  • It’s something you don’t see until it’s gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes. – Amitav Ghosh

    It’s something you don’t see until it’s gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.– Amitav Ghosh

  • Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being. – Amitav Ghosh

    Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.– Amitav Ghosh

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

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

  • To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh

    To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.– Amitav Ghosh

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

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