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Amit Chaudhuri

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Author, A Strange and Sublime Address, Sojourn; critic; singer, Indian classical tradition; composer:This Is Not Fusion, Found Music
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The Work Without Markers

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By Amit Chaudhuri
| The Point Verified
In the late 1990s, I read a short story by Nirmal Verma called “Terminal.” It had been written, like all of Verma’s fiction, in Hindi, and translated into English by the critic Alok Bhalla. I knew something of Verma’s work, because his reputation was a national one. I had taken him to be a kind of European writer in Hindi, though I hadn’t formed this thought clearly in my head, and, if I had, wouldn’t have known with certainty what “European writer” meant.
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Amit Chaudhuri - "Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays" - Srikanth Reddy

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By Amit Chaudhuri
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Amit Chaudhuri will discuss Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, A New World, and The Immortals. He will be joined in conversation by Srikanth Reddy. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. At the Co-op. RSVP HERE — please note your RSVP is requested but not required.
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A Pillar On Its Side | Amit Chaudhuri

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By Amit Chaudhuri
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Not being a monuments person has determined the kind of writer I am. Two things are anathema to me: subjectivity, with its family members, psychology and self-expression; and historiography, whose household includes monuments, key events, and great personalities. Anything that’s immutable seems to me extraneous to what I understand as reality. I’m not sure if this is a Buddhist position. It could be that Buddha was among the first people to articulate a prejudice against the unchanging.
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