
Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social
@amitavakumar
Writer. My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow. amitava.bsky.social
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Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social recites two beautiful poems. One of Gulfisha's and one of Nazim Hikmet. Both imprisoned for fighting for a just world. Both giving hope and beauty to the world.


āAmitava Kumar amitava.bsky.socialās #TheGreenBook invites readers to join the dots and make sense of the world.ā Read this gripping review of acclaimed author Amitava Kumarās latest book, featured in Hindustan Times: hindustantimes.com/books/reviewth⦠#READWithHarperCollins


Naseeruddin Shah recites the poems of Gulfisha imprisoned without trial. "Sahebji" is particularly good and cutting. This is #resistancepoetry. Free Gulfisha Campaign











"I donāt want to have the cosmopolitan ease of someone at ease everywhere; Iād rather embrace something more difficult, of being at home nowhere," says author Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social in talks with Sayari Debnath. scroll.in/article/108295ā¦


#Bookmarks | "Textbooks are often unimaginative, boring things. And they are anathema to any notion of delight that reading affords. And we have mastered this fatal art in India." Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social spoke to Majid Maqbool. frontline.thehindu.com/columns/amitavā¦


In the visual narrative special issue of our journal, On Eating, Amitava Kumar amitava.bsky.social writes about eating/savouring Bhindi. Sumana Roy & I hope you will read & share with those interested - oneating.in/bhindi/