# Amit Chaudhuri - Quotes: 74 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri ## Books - [A New World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-new-world.md) — 5 quotes - [A Strange and Sublime Address](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address.md) — 9 quotes - [Afternoon Raag](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag.md) — 7 quotes - [Calcutta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta.md) — 13 quotes - [Freedom Song](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/freedom-song.md) — 4 quotes - [Friend of My Youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth.md) — 22 quotes - [Odysseus Abroad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/odysseus-abroad.md) — 4 quotes - [On Tagore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/on-tagore.md) — 1 quote - [Real Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/real-time.md) — 3 quotes - [The Immortals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/the-immortals.md) — 6 quotes ## Recently added quotes > The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/the-grown-ups-snapped.md) > On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms bent as if she were swimming to the edge of a lake; his mother lay on her back, her feet (one of which had a scar on it) arranged in the joyous pose of a dancer. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/on-the-big.md) > The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag/the-armchairs-with.md) > She would sweep the floor – unending expanses, acres and acres of floor – with a short broom called the jhadu, swiping away the dust in an arc with its long tail, which reminded one of the drooping tail of some nameless, exotic bird. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/she-would-sweep.md) > While reading the Times of India each morning, my father spares a minute for the cartoon by R. K. Laxman. While my mother is, like a magician, making untidy sheets disappear in the bedroom and producing fresh towels in the bathroom, or braving bad weather in the kitchen, my father, in the extraordinary Chinese calm of the drawing-room, is dmiring the cartoon by R. K. Laxman, and, if my mother happens to be there, unselfishly sharing it with her. She, as expected, misunderstands it completely, laughing not at the joke but at the expressions on the faces of the caricatures, and at the hilarious fact that they talk to each other like human beings. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag/while-reading-the.md) > At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years old. That was in a small town in Bangladesh. Thus, even today, she hesitates superstitiously before crossing the road, and is painfully shy of walking distances. Her fears make her laughable. The scar is printed on her skin like a radiant star. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag/at-the-base.md) > ... the floor was a stone slab of coolness, an expanse of warm ice that would not melt. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/the-floor-was.md) > Years ago, my mother and I fell in love with Busybee’s voice, its calm, even tone, and a smile which was always audible in the language. My father, meanwhile, is clipping his nails fastidiously, letting them fall on to an old, spread-out copy of the Times of India, till he sneezes explosively, as he customarily does, sending the crescent-shaped nail-clippings flying into the universe. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag/years-ago-my-mother.md) > The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam in circles. Urchins splashed about haphazardly, while Saraswati returned from market with a shopping-bag in her hands; insects swam away to avoid this clumsy giant. Her wet footprints printing the floor of the house were as rich with possibility as the first footprint Crusoe found on his island. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/the-gutters-in-the.md) > Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it, like a mild electric shock or a thrill, hat gives it a life of its own; it is visually analogous to a tremolo on a musical note. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/afternoon-raag/her-hair-is-troublesome.md) > Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/calcutta-is-like.md) > It seemed there was no democracy among children – always an aristocracy based on strength, intellect and seniority. But seniority counted most, because a boy of ten is bound to be stronger and cleverer than a boy of nine, having spent an extra year in the world, at a time when each year is like a precious deposit in a newly opened bank account. Among boys of the same age, there would be a silent tussle, a clean, honourable contest. Once a leader emerged, however, no elections were held. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/a-strange-and-sublime-address/it-seemed-there.md)