"There is no beginning that is a blank page,"

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

Amitava Kumar

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“Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.”
“In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.”
“The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.”
“It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'”
“For those who are understood no need to explain”
“I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.”
“I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.”
“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.”

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