I have a piece on the Bengal famine(s) and Megha Majumdar's new novel for this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social t.co/nh50iQ3ns5

I have a piece in this Sunday's @observeruk.bsky.social on India's tryst with the Caliphate. With detours around Christopher Hitchens and Hyderabad:

Read here: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I have a piece in this Sunday's @observeruk.bsky.social on India's tryst with the Caliphate. With detours around Christopher Hitchens and Hyderabad:

In the photographs Nemai Ghosh took of Satyajit Ray over the course of 25 years, he seemed to see the director as ‘a Chaplinesque actor behind the camera, always the centre of attention at every shoot’, writes @avrochakraborty.bsky.social

Nobody can taunt quite like Gore Vidal

Satyajit Ray seemed almost as comfortable in front of a camera as behind it – and in Nemai Ghosh he had the ideal photographer, writes Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

I wrote about pictures of Satyajit Ray making pictures for @apollo-magazine.com apollo-magazine.com/satyajit-ray...

For 25 years, Nemai Ghosh was Satyajit Ray’s amanuensis – or, as the great Bengali film-maker would introduce him to reporters, ‘a sort of Boswell working with a camera rather than a pen’. buff.ly/B6wtDus

In the photographs Nemai Ghosh took of Satyajit Ray over the course of 25 years, he seemed to see the director as ‘a Chaplinesque actor behind the camera, always the centre of attention at every shoot’, writes Abrajyoti Chakraborty

For 25 years, Nemai Ghosh was Satyajit Ray’s amanuensis – or, as the great Bengali film-maker would introduce him to reporters, ‘a sort of Boswell working with a camera rather than a pen’

Satyajit Ray seemed almost as comfortable in front of a camera as behind it – and in Nemai Ghosh he had the ideal photographer, writes Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

I wrote about pictures of Satyajit Ray making pictures for @apollo-magazine.com apollo-magazine.com/satyajit-ray...

Here is a gift link to my piece: wapo.st/4hfYeqZ

Here is a gift link to my piece: wapo.st/4hfYeqZ

I wrote about Eimear McBride's new novel for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

I wrote about Eimear McBride's new novel for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Some thoughts on Ayşegül Savaş for The Observer UK @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Some thoughts on Ayşegül Savaş for The Observer UK @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

It took me almost a year to write this long essay on Manto, Bombay, the Indian Partition, Modi, the "inordinate responsibilities of history" (and me?), just published in the summer issue of @readliberties.bsky.social . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

It took me almost a year to write this long essay on Manto, Bombay, the Indian Partition, Modi, the "inordinate responsibilities of history" (and me?), just published in the summer issue of @readliberties.bsky.social . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...

I wrote about a new history of the Indian partition for this week's issue of @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Some thoughts on Tash Aw's THE SOUTH for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Some thoughts on Tash Aw's THE SOUTH for @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...