“Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, s...” — Amitava Kumar Quote

“Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.”

“I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.”

“Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.”

“Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.”

“Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.”

“Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.”

“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”

“I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.”

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

“I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.”

“Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.”

“Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After the war, it was painstakingly rebuilt and that reconstruction is perceived as expressing the nation's determination to survive, to conserve its history and its culture.”