Saikat Chakrabarty

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“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.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

“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.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind