41 Quotes by Amit Chaudhuri

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.

I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.

Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.