The renaissance Bengali, a being always about to vanish from history into silence, has now probably ceased to exist.
The Constitution, not the Hindu Right, grants the Muslim his place in the country. It's his Indianness he can use as a weapon of assertion.
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
To make a pronouncement on who might be the pre-eminent literary figure of post-independence India is both foolish and difficult...
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
Give us the Rushdie who is louche, open to enthusiasm, strange yet intimate, who could be himself rather than one burdened to produce a major work
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
Kolatkar's last offerings relish carrying mortality's burden
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
Bloodaxe’s edition of the <i>Collected Poems of Arun Kolatkar</i>, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, reveals how provocative and inventive its bohemianism once was.
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
The widely accepted India-as-an-experience model has, alarmingly, sacrificed the specific and heightened conceit
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
The writer-musician-singer offers us an exclusive poem on an anti-offering
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
At the Park Street-Middleton Row corner, speckled with iconic establishments, infected with old joie de vivre, one can sense a ‘modern’ past feeling for the future. In Calcutta.
BY Amit Chaudhuri 5 February 2022
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