Amit Chaudhuri Quotes

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

An hour's a symbolic duration.

Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

... "shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

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

Some books I buy for their title, others for brevity. I love short books - the way you know from the first page that it's going to end.

At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The Titanic resumes its journey; Russell Crowe is reunited with his murdered wife and son. It's not a happy ending; it's a convention created for the purposes of an impossible sense of uplift at the end of death and tragedy: the happy beginning. Technology makes Hades unnecessary.

Each view has a history. You sense you're where others have been.

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.

History is always lying before you, unnoticed: till you suddenly see it, as we do now.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

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

Mahadev Govind Ranade. Leaving aside his air of self-importance, he looks marginally foreign, as all statues do.

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.

I'm undecided about the time we live in. This ongoing passage to oblivion. The disappearance of things you took for granted. Then there's the renaissance of things you never knew of, or presumed you'd never see again.