Freedom Song is a novel about family life and city life at an uneasy moment in time. Set in Calcutta in 1993, the book begins by introducing us to Khuku, whose husband Shib is a retired executive and whose son has gone to live in America.

A collection of stories, centered around the cultural turmoil of modern-day India, follows the lives of men, women, children, and gods, as they attempt to retain a semblance of dignity and discover the true paths of their lives.

Marked by the same sensual richness that is a hallmark of all of Chaudhuri’s work, here is a charming yet candid look at the experiences of the outsider, the struggles of youth and loneliness, and the spiky, needful, sometimes comical, ...

In St Cyril Road And Other Poems, His First Collection Of Verse, Amit Chaudhuri Brings Together Many Of The Poems He Has Written Over The Last Two Decades.

Written in a voice at once tender and ribald, wry and unsentimental, this is Amit Chaudhuri's most extrordinary novel yet.--dust jacket.

This book collects the greater portion of that work for the first time, starting with St Cyril Road (2005), Sweet Shop (2019), Ramanujan (2021), and a selection of new and uncollected poems, as well as translations from Bengali.

Part analysis, part intellectual and cultural history, part literary criticism, and part an impassioned expression of, and meditation on, what it means to ‘be Indian’, this long essay is an exploration of how such a critique might be ...

"DH Lawrence was often at odds with the Establishment and more commonly thought of as a pornographer.

From playing ‘Cowboys and Indians’ as a child in India to an outsider’s perspective on the British class system to a plane that was hijacked by Pakistani men and taken to Afghanistan at the turn of the millennium to the works of V.S. ...