Incompleteness

Essays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.

“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again, I don’t write about India. I’m not interested in writing about India. This means I’m not entirely, or comfortably, a part of the history of the Indian novel in English either. Nor can I be part of a history that’s now been appropriated by literary journalism and publishing houses: of the form of the novel. It’s not that I’m resistant to appropriation. I’m unfit for appropriation. This may be a good place to be in.”

A brilliant prose stylist and keen innovator of literary form, Amit Chaudhuri… Keep Reading