Amitav Ghosh Quotes
You See, In Our Family We Don't Know Whether We're Coming Or Going - It's All My Grandmother's Fault. But, Of Course, The Fault Wasn't Hers At All: It Lay In Language. Every Language Assumes A Centrality, A Fixed And Settled Point To Go Away From And Come Back To, And What My Grandmother Was Looking For Was A Word For A Journey Which Was Not A Coming Or A Going At All; A Journey That Was A Search For Precisely That Fixed Point Which Permits The Proper Use Of Verbs Of Movement.
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