Hanshul Mohan

“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, 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.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.”
― Amitav Ghosh, 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?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide