After spending 16 years in the United Kingdom, author Amit Chaudhuri returned to Calcutta where he was born and saw a very different city than what he remembered. While still considered a modern city ...

“The angel of history turns its back on the future it’s moving towards,” Amit Chaudhuri said in his book talk on Friday. The India-born musician and author of seven novels visited the Seminary Co-Op ...

When Amit Chaudhuri’s first novel, “A Strange and Sublime Address,” was published in 1991, the young author was immediately acclaimed as a successor to R.K. Narayan, one of India’s most revered ...

Calcutta-born singer Amit Chaudhuri's follow-up to This Is Not Fusion (Babel, 2010) is another captivating and deeply idiosyncratic fusion/not fusion of Hindustani classical music, jazz, rock and ...

ASNC and the Mechanics’ Institute are pleased to host celebrated novelist Amit Chaudhuri, who will talk about his latest work, Calcutta: Two Years in the City, a penetrating memoir of his Indian ...

On Broadway (Postcolonial Version); Saraswati; One Fine Day; Country Hustle; Rain; Messages From The Underground (Break On Through); So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star; Good Vibrations; Norwegian ...

Amit Chaudhuri's band is not fusion, but a hybrid meeting of his musical worlds, which collide in Hindustani vocals with hints of Derek and the Dominoes. Chaudhuri has not only studied classical ...

Chaudhuri became known for some strange juxtapositions of western pop or jazz classics and Indian ragas – a version of "Layla " or a Doors number can collide with Indian music to spectacular and ...

The Parsis of Bombay are pale, sometimes hunched, but always with long noses. They have a posthumous look which is contradicted by an earthiness that makes them use local expletives from a very early ...

On Sundays, the streets of Calcutta were vacant and quiet, and the shops and offices closed, looking mysterious and even a little beautiful with their doors and windows shut, such shabby, reposeful ...