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.
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting b… - Amitav Ghosh
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting b…
- Amitav 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: i… - Amitav 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: i…
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
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. - Amitav Ghosh
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevi… - Amitav Ghosh
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevi…
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of … - Amitav Ghosh
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of …
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because l… - Amitav Ghosh
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because l…
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… - 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…
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 government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
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