50 Quotes by Neel Mukherjee

You take away economic security and the whole pack of cards collapses. Everyone is at each other’s throats. All these vaunted bourgeois values that prop up society – love, duty, honour, respect – all rest on power-relations lubricated by economics. They are the gloss people put on the naked truth: self-interest.

Boro-babu, the world does not change, you destroy yourself trying to change it, but it remains as it is. The world is very big, and we are very small. Why cause people who love you to go through such misery because of it?

The enemy inside is far more powerful than the enemy outside.

Childhood friendships were often like that – intense in presence and in the present tense, remote and unreachable in absence.

They say, “Eighteen sores when touched by a tiger, but fifty-eight if by the police.” Don’t forget that.