Chandrachur Ghosh Quotes

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm. ~ Amitav Ghosh

The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears. ~ Amitav Ghosh

ON THE BANKS of every great river you'll find a monument to excess."
Kanai recalled the list of examples Nirmal had provided to prove this: the opera house of Manaus, the temple of Karnak, the ten thousand pagodas of Pagan. In the years since, he had visited many of those places, and it made him laugh to think his uncle had insisted that Canning too had a place on that list: "The mighty Matla's monument is Port Canning. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Both the eyes are one-sided. For the perfect balance, you need Shiva's third eye. ~ Tapan Ghosh

She had talked of this at length with Kadambari - Mrs. Dutt: Why should it not be possible for these freedoms to be universally available for women everywhere? And Mrs. Dutt had said that of course, this was one of the great benefits of British rule in India; that it had given women rights and protections that they'd never had before. At this, Uma had felt herself, for the first time, falling utterly out of sympathy with her new friend. She had known instinctively that this was a false argument, unfounded and illogical. How was it possible to imagine that one could grant freedom by imposing subjugation? that one could open a cage by pushing it inside a bigger cage? How could any section of a people hope to achieve freedom where the entirety of a populace was held in subjection? ~ Amitav Ghosh

How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered? ~ Amitav Ghosh

Make every moment last forever, because nothing else does. ~ Tapan Ghosh

I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible. ~ Amitav Ghosh

(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Sometimes beauty is like curse, ~ Amitav Ghosh

I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before! ~ Amish Tripathi

The government to you is what God is to agnostics
only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake. ~ Amitav Ghosh

The true tragedy of routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise. ~ Tapan Ghosh

Everything else in life can be confusing but what is clear is the importance of looking after yourself. ~ Tapan Ghosh

( ... )- for it does take greatness, I think, to stand resolutely against your own people, especially when you are alone, and especially when you that even history will not be kind to you, since you will have forever given the lie all the claims with which the High and the Mighty will try to exonerate themselves. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise, they are biased. ~ Tapan Ghosh

( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey. ~ Amitav Ghosh

If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad. ~ Pankaj Mishra

Whatever the case, he saw now that it was a rare, difficult and improbable thing for two people from worlds apart to find themselves linked by a tie of pure sympathy, a feeling that owed nothing to the rules and expectations of others. He understood also that when such a bond comes into being, its truths and falsehoods, its obligations and privileges, exist only for the people who are linked by it, and then in such a way that only they can judge the honour and dishonour of how they conduct themselves in relation to each other. ~ Amitav Ghosh

The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier . ~ Amitav Ghosh

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Most of us can't go back and make restitution. We can't do a thing about our should haves and our could haves. But a few lucky men like Ghosh never have such worries; there was no restitution he needed to make, no moment he failed to seize. ~ Abraham Verghese

He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste. ~ Amitav Ghosh

To bend the work of nature to your will; to make the trees of the earth useful to human beings - what could be more admirable , more exciting than this? That is what I would say to any boy who has his life before him. ~ Amitav Ghosh

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware - then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now? ~ Amitav Ghosh

Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ... ~ Amitav Ghosh

What's right and what's wrong can only be judged by the alternate truth because the real truth is not judgmental. ~ Tapan Ghosh

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Great Teachers are passionate and compassionate - they have a powerful personality to engage every mind in the classroom. They are never forgotten. ~ Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

When you help someone, you also help yourself. Instead of worrying about how much you get in return, you are better off helping as many people as you can. ~ Tapan Ghosh

Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things. ~ Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

It was a single poppy seed ... she rolled it between her fingers and raised her eyes past the straining sails, to the star-filled vault above. On any other night she would have scanned the sky for the planet she had always thought to be the arbiter of her fate - but tonight her eyes dropped instead to the tiny sphere she was holding between her thumb and forefinger. She looked at the seed as if she had never seen one before, and suddenly she knew that it was not the planet above that governed her life: it was this minuscule orb - at once bountiful and all-devouring, merciful and destructive, sustaining and vengeful. This was her Shani, her Saturn. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Well what can you expect?' I retorted. 'Those people are, as you say, simple and uneducated. Wasn't it Marx who said that peasants are like sacks of potatoes? Is it surprising that their lives are filled with gods and goddesses and demons?'
She glanced at me again. 'You really do not care for ordinary people, do you?'
The imputation of elitism made me bridle. 'Why you're quite wrong!' I said. 'I consider myself a person of the left. As a student I was a Maoist fellow traveller. I've always stood in solidarity with peasants and workers.'
'Oh yes, certo!' she said, suppressing a giggle. 'I knew many Maoists and fellow travellers in Italy. They had every regard for the bellies and bodies of poor people - but not, I think, for what is in their heads. ~ Amitav Ghosh

Introverts are dependent on their own inside noise, extroverts are dependent of outside noise. The outputs are dependent on quality of those noise. ~ Amit K Ghosh

People fall in love differently.
Some twice,some thrice
And there are some who fall in love only once and cherish it for a lifetime. ~ Ishita Ghosh

Enemies Teach. Friends Preach. ~ Tapan Ghosh

Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one. ~ Tapan Ghosh

That he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting ~ Amitav Ghosh