‘Chattu’ and I: How Chetan Bhagat and I both started our (polar opposite) literary journeys from IIT

Novelist Amitabha Bagchi’s debut work of fiction was also set in IIT Delhi, just like his college senior Chetan Bhagat. But the similarities ended there.

Amitabha Bagchi

· Jul 07, 2018 · 08:30 am

In this contemporary novel, Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a leitmotif

Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ is both a period piece and an interrogation of a religious text.

Amitabha Bagchi

· Jul 02, 2018 · 08:30 am

Must writing be the only profession of the writer?

The conflict between the expert and the generalist is often played out when defining a writer.

Amitabha Bagchi

· Jan 04, 2016 · 06:00 pm

Why does Indian writing in English still have to defend itself against charges of siding with oppressors?

“There is a space for Indian writers who, working in English, are attempting to reach a specificity of experience.”

Amitabha Bagchi

· Dec 05, 2015 · 08:30 am