Amit Chaudhuri

"‘... I sensed that Park Street is, essentially , a place of brief acquaintances and meetings no one has too much time for anyone else, you yourself are part of a web of motivations that are fading and…"

"‘Its intensity derives from the fact that it’s a family largely composed of, in a manner of speaking, orphans of bhadralok history , brought together not by accident but by idealism and its cousin, id…"

"‘... the menu’s a delirious poem/on which the names of Moghlai and Punjabi and Parsi/"

"‘... a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.’"

"I love churches in Bombay...they make me think of shadow. Of footfall on stone. In England, churches preside over their habitat till they're gratuitous."

"It's a very strange middle class…Full of operators and people on the move. It really doesn't value disruptions in that activeness. It doesn't have time for any privileging of daydreaming."

"‘Afternoon’s the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime ...’"

"The city was still .... Soon the machinery would start working again, not out of any sense of purpose, but like a watch that is wound daily by someone’s hand. Almost without any choice in the matter, …"