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

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

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

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- Amitav Ghosh

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

- Amitav Ghosh