Each heady affair brings new learning: about himself, and about his relationship to a country founded on immigration - a country that is now unsure of

The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world into words. A mix of memoir, reporta

A writing manual as well as a manifesto, Every Day I Write the Book combines Amitava Kumar's practical writing advice with interviews with prominent w

A novel packed with telling details and anecdotes about life in contemporary India, set in the rural villages of Bihar and the metropolises of Bombay

It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores

The twenty-six essays in Lunch With a Bigot are examples of how Amitava Kumar turns his observations of the world into words. A mix of memoir, reporta

Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussio

The Lovers is about a man in search of a love story. This man, our narrator, is Kailash-a new immigrant, eager to shine. His friends teasingly call hi

His journey from India has taken him to graduate school in New York where he keeps falling in love: not only with women - Jennifer, Nina, Cai Yan - bu

Part reportage and part protest, an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercussions of the war on terror, with particular focus on the United

The study investigates the working of the Indian stock market in recent years and attempts to look for functional instability, if any, embedded in the

What happens when you drink your favorite cocktail? How does it go from beverage to buzz? Or from buzz to blotto? Here, Dr. Amitava Dasgupta, a practi

Stress is killing us; everyday people seek out more and more methods for managing the various manifestations of stress. But what really works? What do

A comprehensive analysis of the critical dimensions of food security in various countries of Asia. It attempts to draw attention towards the fact that