# Quote — Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta

> ‘... I sensed that Park Street is, essentially (even for the destitute), a place of brief acquaintances and meetings no one has too much time for anyone else, you yourself are part of a web of motivations that are fading and resurrecting – and you must be on the move constantly to be in the street’s ebb and flow of traffic.’

- Author: [Amit Chaudhuri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri.md)
- Book: [Calcutta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amit_Chaudhuri#Calcutta:_Two_Years_in_The_City_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta/i-sensed-that

## More from this book

> ‘This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.’

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta/this-is-a-little.md)

> ‘The myth of the Pujas is a simple one – full of rural sweetness. ... The Pujas are, in part, an ever-returning homage to that magical sense of being rescued, so indispensable to children.’

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta/the-myth-of-the.md)

> ‘All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.’

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amit-chaudhuri/calcutta/all-foreign-food.md)