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“The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .”
― Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

“अस�� बा�� तो यह है कि मज़हब तो सिखाता है आप�� मे�� बै�� रखना�� भा�� को है सिखाता भा�� का खू�� पीना�� हिन्दुस्तानियो�� की एकता मज़हब के मे�� पर नही�� होगी, बल्क�� मज़हबों की चिता पर�� कौव्वे को धोकर हं�� नही�� बनाय�� जा सकता�� कमली धोकर रं�� नही�� चढ़ाय�� जा सकता�� मज़हबों की बीमारी स्वाभावि�� है�� उसकी मौ�� को छोड़क�� इलाज नहीं।”
― Rahul Sankrityayan, तुम्हारी क्षय

“It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide