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Amit Chaudhuri Quotes

born 1962 India

Amit Chaudhuri (born May 15, 1962) is an Indian novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer and music composer.

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‘Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.’

Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)

History is always lying before you, unnoticed: till you suddenly see it, as we do now.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Trenches and mounds of dust everywhere give the city a strange bombed-out look.

A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

A Strange and Sublime Address (1991)

‘The car horns created an anxious music, discordant but not indifferent.’

The Immortals (2009)

‘Gulp by gulp, in the air-conditioned study, he swallowed civilisation.’

The Immortals (2009)

Water begins to boil in the kettle; it starts as a private, secluded sound, pure as rain, and grows to a steady, solipsistic bubbling.

Afternoon Raag (1993)

‘This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.’

Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)

‘I’m uncomfortable beginning at the beginning. It’s not because I’m clever, but because it’s a difficult thing, writing.’

Real Time (2002)

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Mahadev Govind Ranade. Leaving aside his air of self-importance, he looks marginally foreign, as all statues do.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Each view has a history. You sense you're where others have been.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

Friend of My Youth (2017)

‘... a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.’

The Immortals (2009)

‘This morning he’d discovered the bathroom light on, its lustre wasted in daylight.’

A New World (2000)

‘Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership ...’

Clearing a Space (2008)

It never became so dark in the room in Claremont; some light, inquisitive and worldly, always entered through the curtains

A New World (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amit Chaudhuri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.