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Ruchir Joshi

Ruchir Joshi is a writer and film-maker. His novel, The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, was published in 2000. His forthcoming novel, Great Eastern Hotel, will be published by HarperCollins in the UK and India.

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Art & Photography | Issue 156 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 156 padlock

Traces

Ruchir Joshi

‘Calcutta is an hourglass and each person is a grain of sand. Each day, we all pour through the opening.’

Photographs and memoir by Ruchir Joshi.

Art & Photography | Issue 151 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 151 padlock

Clarity

Ruchir Joshi

‘I was close to my own father, which many people are not.’

Ruchir Joshi remembers his son.

In Conversation | Issue 151
In Conversation | Issue 151

Shahid | Moving Parts

Ruchir Joshi

Ruchir Joshi travelled around rural India for our ‘Work’ issue, documenting parts of the country’s informal economy, and meeting people with working lives that are unseen, or unique, or damaging.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151
Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Guddu and Pintu | Moving Parts

Ruchir Joshi

‘They examine roads the way I imagine wine-tasters assess a new vintage or a strange grape.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151
Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Hajiriya and Gajiriya | Moving Parts

Ruchir Joshi

‘The day after my visit to the silica factories in Godhra, I am taken to meet three dead men.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 151
Essays & Memoir | Issue 151

Prajapati | Moving Parts

Ruchir Joshi

‘The funnel is clearly dormant, but the dust is alive, rising up even as it closes in around us.’

In Conversation | Issue 151
In Conversation | Issue 151

Ruchir Joshi | Interview

Ruchir Joshi

Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on his essay ‘Tracing Puppa’, Calcutta and his dreams of writing for Granta.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 104
Essays & Memoir | Issue 104

Tracing Puppa

Ruchir Joshi

‘Also, at core, he was a theatre man, an actor, and he had the confidence of the genuine performer – ‘life makes you go through many roles and you have to act them with style!’’

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