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
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
Clarity
Ruchir Joshi
‘I was close to my own father, which many people are not.’
Ruchir Joshi remembers his son.
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
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
Prajapati | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The funnel is clearly dormant, but the dust is alive, rising up even as it closes in around us.’
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!’’