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Amit Chaudhuri writes how Sunetra Gupta's Memories of Rain exemplified an era of Indian Writing in English that has faded with the arrival of a globalised world
March 22, 2025 5:23 pm
The book’s language reflects the inclusivity of its time: 'The personal and impersonal are, in Sunetra’s writing, conjoined like Siamese twins; to leave one out would be to lose the other'
It’s unfortunate that, whenever we hear the word ‘liberal’ these days, we think of an Anglophone group: Amit Chaudhuri
September 22, 2023 3:21 pm
The writer on the failures of the liberals, the caveats against unreason contained in religious traditions and why athlete Neeraj Chopra’s mother Saroj Devi is an organic intellectual
Sumit Sharma Sameer’s Wake Up Ali… Wake Up Now announced best debut novel at Kalinga Literary Festival 2022. In London, songwriter Aruna set to release her second single
February 23, 2023 10:22 am
Sumit Sharma Sameer’s novel centres on the diasporic community; Indian songwriter Aruna's Confession has influences of pop, country, rock and Hindustani classical music
Amit Chaudhuri’s Finding the Raga wins the James Tait Black prize in the biography category
August 25, 2022 10:12 pm
Published by Penguin India, the book details Chaudhuri’s personal relationship with north Indian music and its evolution over the years.
‘A lot of the English music I sang was inspired from Hindustani classical’: Amit Chaudhuri
January 04, 2022 12:56 pm
The author and musician on his latest music album, Seventeen, which travels back in time
'I would feel optimistic if there were expressions of free speech and creation of new ways of thinking about creativity’
April 11, 2021 12:08 pm
In an expansive conversation, writer Amit Chaudhuri and political theorist Pratap Bhanu Mehta discuss the idiosyncrasies of Indian classical music, how it shaped Chaudhuri’s creative impulse and his idea of home and the world
Lockdown verse: Amit Chaudhuri and Biswamit Dwibedy reflect on the current times
April 26, 2020 1:18 pm
Lockdown verse, as the name suggests, is a series consisting of poems introspecting, examining and reflecting on the times we are living in. For this week we have one poem from Amit Chaudhuri who is a novelist, poet, essayist and another by Biswamit Dwibedy, author and editor.
The Actual Shafi Shauq
March 15, 2020 7:20 am
The India we now live in has prompted a new short story by Amit Chaudhuri. Whether it's fiction or some other kind of truth is for the reader to decide.
A symposium in Delhi addressed the highs and lows of failure
February 18, 2020 8:37 am
The symposium also saw a video recording of a reading by American writer Lydia Davis of her new short story, Learning to Sing, while actor Dhritiman Chaterji read out Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s Tobacco Shop.
Consider the Writer
January 06, 2016 5:45 am
A symposium in the Capital argues for a literature of resistance.
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