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Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist who has published several works of non-fiction and four novels. His most recent title is My Beloved Life. Kumar’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, Guernica, the Nation and several other publications. A past Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 167
Essays & Memoir | Issue 167

Sinking Town

Amitava Kumar

‘The town’s fate was tied to poor development and ecological disaster.’

Amitava Kumar visits a Himalayan town.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Particulate Matter

Amitava Kumar

‘India, as we know it, is changing. What will it become?’

Memoir by Amitava Kumar.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 162 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162 padlock

Many Words for Heat, Many Words for Hate

Amitava Kumar

‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’

Memoir by Amitava Kumar.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162

Bookshelves: John Berger in My Family Album

Amitava Kumar

‘The contours of the family arranged on the bookshelf shifted.’

First Sentence | Issue 162
First Sentence | Issue 162

Notebooks

Amitava Kumar

‘I wanted sex as my subject, not only the innocence but also the bruising.’

Fiction | Issue 162
Fiction | Issue 162

Jennifer

Amitava Kumar

‘I was overcome by a feeling that took root then and has never left me, the feeling that in this land that was someone else’s country, I did not have a place to stand.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
Essays & Memoir | Issue 162

Patna Roughcuts

Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar returns to his hometown of Patna

Essays & Memoir | Issue 130
Essays & Memoir | Issue 130

Pyre

Amitava Kumar

‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’

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