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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, including Friend of My Youth. He is also a musician, poet and essayist. His new book, Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music, will be published in 2021 by Faber & Faber in the UK, New York Review Books in the US and Penguin Random House in India. Ramanujan, his new collection of poems, will be published by Shearsman Books in 2021.

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Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

Amit Chaudhuri

‘It was chick peas that kept you alive.’

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

To Remember Is to Live Again

Buddhadeva Bose & Amit Chaudhuri

‘Never, long as I live, will I forget the few days I had spent with the Millers.’ Buddhadeva Bose on his friendship with Henry Miller.

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

Amit Chaudhuri | First Sentence

Amit Chaudhuri

‘A scene in which nothing is ostensibly happening will absorb me; so will a paragraph that contains no vital piece of information.’

Fiction | Issue 138
Fiction | Issue 138

Friend of My Youth

Amit Chaudhuri

‘You don’t plunge into growing up; it happens in spite of you.’

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Fiction | Issue 130 padlock

English Summer

Amit Chaudhuri

‘What am I doing in London? And what’ll I do once I’m back in India?' Amit Chaudhuri on identity, youth and nostalgia.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 87
Essays & Memoir | Issue 87

The Tailor of Gujarat

Amit Chaudhuri

‘He was desperate for the photograph to cease to exist: as if the man in the photo and he are competing for the same oxygen.’

Fiction | Issue 87 padlock
Fiction | Issue 87 padlock

White Lies

Amit Chaudhuri

‘The guru looked discomfited, as if he’d been caught doing something inappropriate. At the same time, he looked somewhat triumphant.’

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Fiction | Issue 87 padlock

Real Time

Amit Chaudhuri

‘He sighed; his wife never satisfied him when he needed her most; and quite probably it was the same story the other way round.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 65
Essays & Memoir | Issue 65

A Small Bengal, NW3

Amit Chaudhuri

‘Those who stayed on had their reasons. . . and none of those reasons, it is safe to suppose, had anything to do with an overwhelming attachment to England.’

An essay by Amit Chaudhuri.

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Fiction | Issue 65 padlock

Waking

Amit Chaudhuri

‘Her eyes, in a face puffed with sleep, opened, red and unfocused.’

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