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Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth, as a transcendentalist, a believer in the absolute, a propagandist for universal man, and as a national icon. But, as Amit Chaudhuri shows in these remarkable and widely admired essays about the poet and his milieu, his secret concern was really with life, play, and continge...

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A mysterious, subtle, haunting novel.'Chris PowerAn unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor.

A stunning collection of short stories from the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth.

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, acollected novel in three parts and tender ode to quotidianlife and family loyalties

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets.

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra**Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom but happily teaching more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets.

Meditations on city life in Mumbai, Calcutta, and the United Kingdom as well as elegies for the dead populate this original collection.Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry throughout his career as a novelist, poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that...

[A] compelling meditation on Indian and Western art-making.' The New YorkerFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practises will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be.

A lyrical and modern exploration of loneliness and failure-as well as a love letter to Homer and James Joyce-by one of our most celebrated writers.

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A beguiling, short and yet sweeping prose-poem, Afternoon Raag is the account of a young Bengali man studying at Oxford University and caught in complicated love triangle. Intensely moving, superbly written, Afternoon Raag is a testimony to the clash of the old and the new,

The prize-winning debut fiction work by Amit Chaudhuri, the author whose 'languorous, elliptical, beautiful prose is impressively impossible to put in any category at all' (Salman Rushie).

When freedom is the only reality, you're no longer free.'A man arrives in Berlin to take up an appointment as a visiting professor. At once a record of what it means to live in the moment and a fable, Sojourn is a response to history and what it means to encounter it in the new 'free' world.

In these poems, written after the death of his parents, Amit Chaudhuri gives us both a record of loss and an account of tasting life afresh. Here, past and future are often conjoined, as are moments, people, and sounds: Ramanujan the mathematician and Chaudhuri, related as much by Cambridge as they are to each other by their suffering bodies, absent parents echoed by the daughter absent during home-cooked meals, a 9th-century Chinese poet and ...

This important study from the prizewinning novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri explores D. H. Lawrence's position as a "foreigner" in the English canon. Focussing on the poetry, Chaudhuri examines how Lawrence's works, and Lawrence himself, have been read, and misread, in terms of their "difference." This is the first time that Lawrence's poetry has been discussed in the light of post-colonial and post-structuralist theory, it is also the first...

A revelatory and very personal exploration of Indian classical music from 'one of his generation's best writers' (Guardian). Winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Biography Award.

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An anthology of written work from a symposium on literary activism, edited by Amit Chaudhuri.

This book focuses on the study of possible adaptive sampling mechanisms for haptic data compression aimed at applications like tele-operations and tele-surgery. Demonstrating that the selection of the perceptual dead zones is a non-trivial problem, it presents an exposition of various issues that researchers must consider while designing compression algorithms based on just noticeable difference (JND). The book begins by identifying perceptual...