Thursday, May 26, 2022
Nov 02, 2021
Amitava Kumar In a world where the media often reproduces the propaganda of the powerful, art—including the art of the...
May 22, 2014 Amitava Kumar Sometimes my son asks in English: “Baba, what does duniya mean?” It means the world, beta, the world that...
Nov 06, 2013 Amitava Kumar To return to Patna is to find the challenging thought of death, like the tip of a knife, pressing against my...
Feb 22, 2012 Amitava Kumar It wasn't just about standing up for freedom of expression in India: maybe I was doing something more humble...
May 14, 2007
Amitava Kumar Uninspired, unoriginal, sans cogent argument, this is anything but a comprehensive history of Bollywood.
Nov 21, 2006 Amitava Kumar He was indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger. He never published a classic text nor did...
Oct 05, 2004 Amitava Kumar Fidelity to his interlocutors, and to their detail and circumstance, as much as the intelligence and...
Sep 20, 2004
Amitava Kumar Aslam has the courage to write against the shortcomings of his own religion. When has anyone of the VHP had...
Aug 23, 2004
Amitava Kumar The Partition was a tragedy, but the greater tragedy is that today the dream of a united India is the fantasy...
Oct 20, 2003
Amitava Kumar Displaced metaphors play out their genteel turmoil yet again, Jhumpa style
Sep 08, 2003
Amitava Kumar Jha's second novel shows he's still in tormented territory, and thriving
Apr 21, 2003
Amitava Kumar Iyer could not have known this when he finished his book but Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11...
Jul 29, 2002
Amitava Kumar The local TV images of the mass funeral had a ticker tape running below—"PM congratulates victorious Indian...
Jun 03, 2002
Amitava Kumar Chaudhuri's writings record subtle variations on a more settled routine. The technique works because it saves...
Sep 17, 2001
Amitava Kumar High on success and stardom, Rushdie's novel touches the low of banality
May 28, 2001
Amitava Kumar A new fashion statement in India writing using adrenaline instead of ink.
Apr 23, 2001
Amitava Kumar A novel knowledgeable about wealth, sentimental about poverty.
Mar 19, 2001
Amitava Kumar Amitava Kumar on his marriage to a Muslim, his 'conversion' and his first visit to Karachi
Nov 20, 2000
Amitava Kumar Stephen Alter takes a step across what's just a line on the map
Nov 06, 2000
Amitava Kumar An uneven, but often rewarding, saga of forgotten Indian diasporas
