An essay by Amit Chaudhuri: "In the last four years I have been rereading, repeatedly, two pieces of criticism . . ."
5 months ago

There have been highs and lows during the country's long voting period. Now pessimism is setting in, says author Amit Chaudhuri.
6 months ago

This is Chaudhuri's 'Introduction' to Tagore's 'Gitanjali', published by Folio Society.
4 days ago

Freedom Song, Amit Chaudhuri's third novel, is set in Calcutta in 1993. The book is pointillist in form, capturing both the inner and outer...
6 months ago

A collection of essays by a range international writers belongs neither to academia nor to the commercial publishing industry but is rich in...
3 months ago

The khayal, derived from the Arabic word for imagination, has long captured the minds and hearts of listeners – transporting them to...
4 weeks ago

A drama is being played out in these lines, and I suspect that Eliot is thinking of another text as he recasts the latter's drama in his own...
32 months ago

To me, a sentence that serves as a purely functional join in the syntax of the novel, like “They drove towards the building,” is as much...
47 months ago

Amit Chaudhuri's teenage discovery of the raga transformed his understanding of music, connecting it to the rhythms of life and challenging...
2 months ago

A professor wanders around the German capital, enabling dreamlike meditations on history, identity and belonging.
27 months ago