Amitava Kumar’s Substack
Amitava KumarNotes and drawings. Dispatches from a writer's life.
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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...
Inside the Listening Room
Over the past twelve days, I have been participating in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, co-teaching a fiction-writing workshop with Claire Messud, and also doing readings, presenting or attending craft lectures, devising special topics cla...
There Are So Many Roots to the Tree of Anger
Woke up this morning to the news that the Delhi police had shot teargas and beaten students who were marching to the Parliament. This was the march that Sonam Wangchuk had called for while he was on hunger strike—he was forcibly removed by...
The Healed Femur Theory of History
I sent my friend two pictures of deer in my backyard. I had noticed that one of the deer had only three legs. In the past, I had sometimes seen deer with a lame hind leg: I imagined a car had swerved to avoid hitting the deer but the driver...
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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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