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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

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

What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

Amitav Ghosh

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

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh

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Born: July 11, 1956 (age 69)

Bio: Amitav Ghosh is an Indian American author best known for his work in English fiction.

Known for:

Sea of Poppies (2008)
The Glass Palace: A Novel (2000)
River of Smoke (2011)
The Shadow Lines (1988)
Flood of Fire (2015)

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