Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist and musician. His new novel is ‘Friend of My Youth’

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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 worldSubscriber Only

March 22,2025 10:28:53 AM

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'

Sat, Mar 22, 2025

Ustad Rashid Khan’s legacy of perfectionSubscriber Only

January 11,2024 07:07:46 AM

Among his various recordings and performances, there is little one could describe as being less than very good. And one almost started taking for granted some of these qualities, like fidelity to sur, which is, in the end, what makes one a singer

Thu, Jan 11, 2024

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As India turns 75, a look-back at the defining cultural moments that shaped itSubscriber Only

August 14,2022 06:00:04 AM

The arts had been a domain of freedom and disruption in the run-up to Independence. How did they catalyse India's journey after 1947?

Sun, Aug 14, 2022

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Lockdown verse: Amit Chaudhuri and Biswamit Dwibedy reflect on the current timesSubscriber Only

April 26,2020 11:30:46 AM

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.

Sun, Apr 26, 2020

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March 15,2020 04:00:25 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.

Sun, Mar 15, 2020

Countrywide protests signify a nod to new humanism that seeks to synthesise political ideas and identitiesSubscriber Only

January 25,2020 00:31:13 AM

If there’s one thing that interviews, comments, and placards on the street have revealed, it’s that the “ordinary person” is not to be respected for their ordinariness alone, nor the burkha-clad woman for her ethnicity and difference, but for speaking with a more profound common sense, clarity and rationality than our politicians.

Sat, Jan 25, 2020