Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of a novel, The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, and is currently working on another, set in Calcutta during the Second World War. ‘Moving Parts’ is a series of dispatches from the irregular landscape of Indian working life. Parts of it appear in Granta 109, ‘Work’. ‘Tracing Puppa’ is part of a series of irregular essays about memory and growing up. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve.
Ruchir Joshi on Granta.com
In Conversation|The Online Edition
In Conversation|The Online Edition
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|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
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|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
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|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
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|The Online Edition
In Conversation|The Online Edition
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|Granta 104
Essays & Memoir|Granta 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!’’
