Avishek Bhattacharjee

“Food was your solution to all problems.”
― Sandeepa Datta Mukherjee, Those Delicious Letters

“It was an extraordinarily long document, written in large part in dense, legal jargon. An ordinary citizen could neither make sense of large parts of it nor was it likely to be of much interest to them. It may have captured some of the demands of the freedom movement in terms of rights but had chosen not to channel its spirit of questioning the fundamentals of colonial rule: a large, all-powerful state with an overriding Union government.”
― Arghya SenGupta, The Colonial Constitution

“In her diary of 1929, Virginia Woolf described a sense of inner loneliness that she thought might be illuminating to analyse, adding: ‘If I could catch the feeling, I would: the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.’ Interesting, the idea that loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“hiraeth’ for a home”
― Sandeepa Datta Mukherjee, Those Delicious Letters