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Amitava Kumar

  • Amitava Kumar on why he used a dying man’s SOS tweet during Covid as a narrative device in his novel

    Amitava Kumar on why he used a dying man’s SOS tweet during Covid as a narrative device in his novel

    Amitava Kumar
    · Dec 05, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • ‘My Beloved Life’ by Amitava Kumar: Truth, memories, and what we leave behind

    ‘My Beloved Life’ by Amitava Kumar: Truth, memories, and what we leave behind

    Sayari Debnath
    · Jun 22, 2024 · 08:30 am
  • ‘Without death, there is no art’: How Amitava Kumar’s new novel came to be

    ‘Without death, there is no art’: How Amitava Kumar’s new novel came to be

    Amitava Kumar
    · May 25, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • In Amitava Kumar’s new novel, a son remembers his pregnant mother nearly dying of snakebite

    In Amitava Kumar’s new novel, a son remembers his pregnant mother nearly dying of snakebite

    Amitava Kumar
    · May 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘The Yellow Book’ makes the reader dig into their lives in search of good writing and conversations

    ‘The Yellow Book’ makes the reader dig into their lives in search of good writing and conversations

    Sharmistha Jha
    · Feb 25, 2024 · 01:30 pm
  • From a writer’s journals: How the legendary writer Vladimir Nabokov inspired Amitava Kumar’s fiction

    From a writer’s journals: How the legendary writer Vladimir Nabokov inspired Amitava Kumar’s fiction

    Amitava Kumar
    · Dec 01, 2023 · 01:30 pm
  • Barack Obama picks Indian author Amitava Kumar’s ‘Immigrant Montana’ among favourite books of 2018

    Barack Obama picks Indian author Amitava Kumar’s ‘Immigrant Montana’ among favourite books of 2018

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 29, 2018 · 10:01 am