Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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The Collage Method
After I finished writing my piece on Michael Ondaatje’s early works, which was published online by the New Yorker, I also made the above collage. Any attentive reader of Ondaatje’s will know that he is a believer in the collage form. In my...
Close Reading with Kiran Desai
Happy Independence Day, India! On this occasion, I asked Kiran Desai to talk to me about seven lines from her novel, lines that I especially liked and that told us something about us as Indians and also, in a few cases, about writing. Kiran...
Poems for the Unemployed
I am making this post about the poetry of Parag Pawan. I have never met this young poet but I have enjoyed his readings, this one in particular, especially the poem he begins to read at 1:32. I’m pasting below first that poem in Hindi and b...
See You in Five Years
At the recent Sewanee Writers Conference I was able to teach other, mostly younger, writers—but I was also able to earn money. (During one of our workshop discussions, I said to the other participants, Listen, you can find focus for your st...
The Koel in History
The Koel in History
I was a teenager then in Delhi.
The koel calling during the afternoon
while hidden in the mango tree
appeared in a painting
by J. Swaminathan that I tried to copy
many times. (See illustration.)
I heard that same...
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Writer. Novels include Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 2018); A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, 2021); My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
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