Avishek Bhattacharjee

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

“As Epictetus wrote almost two thousand years ago: ‘For because a man is alone, he is not for that reason also solitary; just as though a man is among numbers, he is not therefore not solitary.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“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

“Temporary madness makes it possible to forget the truth about bullets. Temporary madness, in war, is bravery’s sister.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black