Megha

“That was the ace hidden up the sleeves of the Jardines, Mathesons and Dents of the world. Despite all their cacklings about Free Trade, the truth was that their commercial advantages had nothing to do with markets or trade or more advanced business practices – it lay in the brute firepower of the British Empire’s guns and gunboats.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire

“The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .”
― Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

“when merchants and traders begin to run wars – hundreds of lives depend on bribes.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire

“It is madness to think that knowing a language and reading a few books can create allegiances between people. Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire