The Mammaries of the Welfare State Quotes

“God is a first-rate bureaucrat, one of the best. In all matters, He sees the truth, but is yet to take a decision.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, The Mammaries of the Welfare State

“You should marry early. As one grows older, one becomes increasingly reluctant to share one’s toilet with someone else. What’s”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, The Mammaries of the Welfare State

“The Collectorship of Madna is the seventh post that he has held in eight years. He is quite philosophic about the law that governs the transfer of civil servants; he sees it as a sort of corollary to the law of karma, namely, that the whole of life passes through innumerable and fundamentally mystifying changes, and these changes are sought to be determined by our conduct, our deeds (otherwise, we would quite simply lose our marbles); only thus can we even pretend to satisfactorily explain the mystery of suffering, which is a subject that has troubled thoughtful souls all over the world since time immemorial. It is also a hypothesis that justifies the manifest social inequalities of the Hindu community.”
― Upamanyu Chatterjee, The Mammaries of the Welfare State