“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.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.”
― The Hungry Tide
― The Hungry Tide
“Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
― The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
“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 out or rediscovered?”
― The Hungry Tide
― The Hungry Tide
“Modern Bombay, in a sense, has its genesis in the poppy fields of Bihar.”
― Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
― Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
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