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To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into w

Part memoir, part travelogue, A Matter of Rats is the acclaimed writer Amitava Kumar's account of Patna, one of the world's oldest cities, the capital

The university classroom has been turned into an intensely bitter battlefield. Conservatives are attacking the academy's ability to teach, and at time

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

This book brings together great writing by figures from South Asia who give voice to the experience of the exile and the emigrant. The list of contrib

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

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

An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid. 'This pr

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can b

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 warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut" Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us"Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm,

DeScriPtion When Soumitra Chatterjee debuted in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar in 1959-the final part of Ray's Apu trilogy-a star was born in Bengali ci

Everyone's life gets ruined by failures. But Joe's life is different. He is not an ordinary guy but an exceptional talent. This specialty shattered hi