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Saikat Chakrabarty
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The feeling that the Central Government in New Delhi did not give a fig about the Northeast was widespread and went beyond the ranks of the USF. There was an overall sense of hurt and neglect that had been festering for many years. It had
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“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
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“He didn't want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face.”
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“No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself - that is, if he reveals himself at all.”
― English, August: An Indian Story
― English, August: An Indian Story
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I'm happy for you Agastya,you're leaving for a more meaningful context. This place is like a parody, a complete farce, they're trying to build another Cambridge here. At my old University I used to teach Macbeth to my MA English classes in Hindi.English in India is burlesque. But now you'll get out of here to somehow a more real situation. In my time I'd wanted to give this Civil Service exam too, I should have. Now I spend my time writing papers for obscure journals on L. H. Myers and Wyndham Lewis, and teaching Conrad to a bunch of half-wits.”
― English, August: An Indian Story
― English, August: An Indian Story
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