shadow lines..

you just have to sit and listen to ghosh to identify the nuggets he throws away so effortlessly in his writings.this is one of them..i love this-

i could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination..tridib had said that we cannot see without inventing what we saw, so atleast we could try and do it properly..."why? why should we try, why not just take the world as it is?".. i told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasnt blankness- it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.