Top 100 Ghosh Quotes
#1. Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
#2. I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!
Amish Tripathi
#3. Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
Abraham Verghese
#4. Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.
Abraham Verghese
#5. 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
#6. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.
Nancy Pearl
#7. The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying
Deepa Mehta
#8. What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.
Abraham Verghese
#9. I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time.
Abraham Verghese
#11. Love is the highest form of energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted.
Tapan Ghosh
#12. In Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village.
Amitav Ghosh
#13. Teachers are the architects of a Nation. They build characters, construct personalities and strengthen spirits in learners who become National Assets of tomorrow.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#14. Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.
Amitav Ghosh
#15. A Teacher who has courage to laugh at herself or himself; laugh with students, and laugh off difficulties is the harbinger of positive trails and cheerful learning outcomes.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#16. Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
Bobby Ghosh
#17. Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.
Amitav Ghosh
#18. In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.
Papiya Ghosh
#19. True love is all about your love and not the one you love.
Tapan Ghosh
#20. He recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come,
Amitav Ghosh
#21. It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.
Amitav Ghosh
#23. The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .
Amitav Ghosh
#24. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#25. When I look into my past the river seems to meet my eyes, staring back, as if to ask, Do you recognize me, wherever you are? Recognition
Amitav Ghosh
#26. Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?
Amitav Ghosh
#27. Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!
Tapan Ghosh
#28. In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.
Amitav Ghosh
#29. Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.
Amitav Ghosh
#30. Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.
Tapan Ghosh
#31. Whether he was with her or not, her voice had always been in his head;
Amitav Ghosh
#32. Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy.
Sudipto Ghosh
#33. There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
Bobby Ghosh
#34. Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.
Amitav Ghosh
#35. That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him.
Amitav Ghosh
#36. Make every moment last forever, because nothing else does.
Tapan Ghosh
#37. You can't change your life. What you can change is YOUR APPROACH.
Tapan Ghosh
#38. Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.
Amitav Ghosh
#39. We tend to overlook the simplest of things in our quest for a better life.
Anuja Ghosh
#40. The government to you is what God is to agnostics
only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Amitav Ghosh
#41. For Ila the current was the real: it was as though she lived in a present which was like an airlock in a canal, shut away from the tidewaters of the past and the future by steel floodgates.
Amitav Ghosh
#42. People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.
Amitav Ghosh
#43. Good Teachers are like Accomplished Drivers on high-risk roads. They have a fabulous sense of direction, control, judgement and respect for signals - they know when to speed, when to stop and when to give way to others. They save innumerable lives everyday.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#44. I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.
Amitav Ghosh
#45. There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.
Amitav Ghosh
#46. Love is not everything; it's the only thing.
Tapan Ghosh
#47. Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...
Amitav Ghosh
#48. Her hair, long, black and flowing, was her great asset, and she liked to wear it over her shoulders,
Amitav Ghosh
#49. Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#50. Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!
Amitav Ghosh
#51. Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#52. Nabadwip, a centre of piety and learning consecrated to the memory of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - saint, mystic, and devotee of Sri Krishna.
Amitav Ghosh
#53. To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.
Amitav Ghosh
#54. I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.
Amitav Ghosh
#56. ( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.
Amitav Ghosh
#57. Only when you connect with yourself do you interact with the beyond.
Tapan Ghosh
#58. Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.
Amitav Ghosh
#59. He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives.
Amitav Ghosh
#61. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
Amitav Ghosh
#62. Have faith in fate. You don't have a choice.
Tapan Ghosh
#63. Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise, they are biased.
Tapan Ghosh
#65. The last few months had passed in a kind of delirium
Amitav Ghosh
#66. Happiness lies in making the environment happy.
Tapan Ghosh
#67. With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.
Amitav Ghosh
#68. I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.'
'An omelette?'
'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
Amitav Ghosh
#69. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.
Amitav Ghosh
#70. Only when YOU let go of YOURSELF will the real you surface.
Tapan Ghosh
#71. Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?
Amitav Ghosh
#72. It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.
Amitav Ghosh
#73. We knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.
Amitav Ghosh
#74. And to no one is this state more attractive than to those whom it is consistently denied.
Amitav Ghosh
#75. It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.
Amitav Ghosh
#76. Is it not amazing, Puggly dear, that whenever we begin to congratulate ourselves on the breadth of our knowledge of the world, we discover that there are multitudes of people, in every corner of the earth, who have seen vastly more than we can ever hope to?
Amitav Ghosh
#77. Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.
Tapan Ghosh
#78. The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.
Amitav Ghosh
#79. Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around.
Amitav Ghosh
#80. ( ... ) it seemed to me exceedingly peculiar that a man should love flowers as well as opium - and yet I see now that there is no contradiction in this, for are they not perhaps both a means to a kind of intoxication ? Could it not even be said that one might lead inevitably to the other ?
Amitav Ghosh
#81. I have been facing lots of struggle in my life since my childhood,I don't know how I become gradually more and more stronger internally.
Debabrata Ghosh
#82. We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.
Amitav Ghosh
#83. Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?
Amitav Ghosh
#84. That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.
Amitav Ghosh
#85. Dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when
Amitav Ghosh
#86. Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages - and China too, of course.
Amitav Ghosh
#87. In her inward reality she was a vehicle of transformation, travelling through the mists of illusion towards the elusive, ever-receding landfall that was Truth.
Amitav Ghosh
#88. What she had liked better still was his drowsy demeanour and slow manner of speech; he
had seemed inoffensive, the kind of man who would go about his work without causing trouble, not the least desirable of qualities in a husband.
Amitav Ghosh
#89. Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#90. From the older ox the younger learns to plough.
Amitav Ghosh
#91. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
Amitav Ghosh
#92. No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ...
Amitav Ghosh
#93. I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible.
Amitav Ghosh
#94. The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!
Amitav Ghosh
#95. 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Bobby Ghosh
#96. True love is when you relish the orange she eats.
Tapan Ghosh
#97. I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.
Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole.
I try not to think about it too much.
Amitav Ghosh
#98. It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.
Amitav Ghosh
#99. A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to release unwanted energies for everyone and everything to bloom.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
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