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Quotes About Amitav Ghosh

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
~ Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
~ Amitav Ghosh
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
~ Pankaj Mishra
I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
~ Amitav Ghosh