Unadorned Doors

This photgraph is of all that CPI leader A.B. Bardhan left behind when he died recently. Writer Amit...

We Asked Them For Stories

You will, woncha? By mid-October? While the goddess is straw still?.... Oh, but to count the bellows of the...

“Of Reticent Bureaucratic Air”

The unsettling, the divine and the destitute.

An Open Letter On Saving Calcutta

Author Amit Chaudhuri writes to West Bengal chief minister for saving Calcutta's cultural ethos.

Amit Chaudhuri

On the Same Page

He had given Hitchens his vote, and his views remain unchanged

Found Music Down Free School Street

At the Park Street-Middleton Row corner, speckled with iconic establishments, infected with old joie de...

Room For Words

His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write

Hunger Strike

A few had stopped to look; others/ walked on, some / quickening their pace, many / unmindful of what had...

Shoe

The writer-musician-singer offers us an exclusive poem on an anti-offering

The Rise Of A Passionate Schmaltziness

The widely accepted India-as-an-experience model has, alarmingly, sacrificed the specific and heightened...

Non-Fiction

Bloodaxe’s edition of the Collected Poems of Arun Kolatkar, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, reveals how...

The Act Of Listening

I did my best to escape music as a child, running very fast whenever my mother tried to teach me the Tagore...

'A Completely Egoless Candidate'

Although Arvind Krishna Mehrotra did not win Oxford Professor of Poetry elections, the large mandate he...

A Professor Of Poetry

Amit Chaudhuri and Peter D McDonald explain why they took the initiative in nominating Arvind Krishna...

Gently Down The Stream

Kolatkar's last offerings relish carrying mortality's burden

Returning To Earth

The pre-eminent and best loved Bengali poet after Tagore was an elusive, deeply private writer, reluctant to...

Sacred Objects

There's an intriguing juxtaposition between the violence of the art-work and the violence of nationalism....

Hovering On The Edges

There is another lineage and avenue in Indian writing in English than the one Midnight's Children opened up,...

'Triumphant Eclecticism'

The idea of an unbroken Indian tradition is probably an Orientalist invention. The 'Orient' itself comes...