Quotes by Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

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“That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of tr...”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“Amma and i went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, 'Don't forget us. Keep visiting.' At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. i had grown up among them - how was it even p...”

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“Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the ...”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed they'd laid siege to a snack, we might trap them in a ci...”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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“Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. Hes given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldnt strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead gr...”

— Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

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