A.M. Sardar > Quotes

“he works for the Czar’s Okhrana,” replied Maldehyde sitting in his winged-back chair. “The Czar’s Okra?” I asked confused. “Secret police,” replied Charlotte sitting down, “not secret vegetable.”
― A.M. Sardar, A Passover in Peshawar

“I picked up my medical journal again, the stomach was still distended according to the author,”
― A.M. Sardar, A Christmas in Calcutta

“attended by efficient clerks who carried their superiority effortlessly. It seemed as if in their condescending manner they were deigning to lower themselves and ‘reluctantly’ rule over India. It was a pretence that fooled no one, neither the masters nor their unwilling servants.”
― A.M. Sardar, A Passover in Peshawar

“mercurial good lady,”
― A.M. Sardar, A Christmas in Calcutta

“I first made the acquaintance of the mercurial good lady, who would assume such prominence in my life as I could scarcely imagine, on board the Calcutta Tiger Express as it stopped at Guntakal junction to take on water and fuel.”
― A.M. Sardar, A Christmas in Calcutta

“crushed by the soufflé of his logic.”
― A.M. Sardar, A Christmas in Calcutta

“unsure as to what precisely she had requested and I had agreed to.”
― A.M. Sardar, A Christmas in Calcutta