Amitava Kumar Quotes

• There is no beginning that is a blank page.

  Amitava Kumar

  Pages, Blank Pages, Blank

  Amitava Kumar (2013). “Bombay--London--New York”, p.17, Routledge

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• The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

  Amitava Kumar

  Powerful, Hands, Invisible Hand

  Amitava Kumar (2000). “Passport Photos”, p.219, Univ of California Press

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• Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.

  Amitava Kumar

  Book, Home, Thinking

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