Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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What Zadie Said
In a couple of days I’ll be headed to the PEN Gala and so I’m thinking of a piece that Zadie Smith wrote about a decade ago. It starts with these words:
“I first heard the name Ahmed Naji at a PEN dinner last spring. I looked up from my de...
Spring Flowers and PEN World Voices
There are flowers blooming on nearly all the trees on campus, particularly the dogwoods that I adore. Also, cherry and apple and crab apple. The spring blossoms will linger for another week or two. When writing my morning pages, I have some...
Raghu Rai
The great Raghu Rai has died. His photographs, so numerous and so unexpected and so precise, caught India through the decades of change: for me, and I know for many others, he defined the country through his frames. His book Bihar Shows the...
Naipaul, contd.
For nearly a month now a fine group of readers has been involved in reading together V.S. Naipaul’s novel The Enigma of Arrival. We have been reading on an average about 10-12 pages daily and on Tuesday, after we have reached the end, there...
In Praise of Shyam Benegal
Actor Shabana Azmi shared this photograph on Instagram three-four years ago. Her caption read: “At Cannes for #Nishant 1976. We had no publicity material and no money so #Shyam Benegal asked #Smita Patil and me to wear our best saris and w...
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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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