Amit Chaudhuri
“I wish Indian writing in English were less triumphant,” says Amit Chaudhuri.
I think that in the West the interest in Indian writing in English has to do with the interest in the role of English in India and the role of India itself increasingly in the globalized world. But the idea of linking literature to the economic fate of a nation is to miss precisely the ironical force of literature, that it has a separate prestige. It seems to me that the West is not interested in that ironical relationship. Otherwise it would be more interested in the literature that India produced when it was a colonized country, which is an extremely interesting body of work, or even the literature produced in the Indian languages, which is the literature of communities that are not directly linked to globalization.
(Thanks, Elizabeth.)
I’m quite taken with this.
And, of course, Chaudhuri’s own writing is evidence of the non-triumphalist strain in Indian writing in English.
Comment by Teju — October 10, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
That time I was still in the college and with meagre resources . To satisfy my literay needs I used to rely on footpath Booksellers of Patna . Oneday I discovered a strange and Sublime novel by Amit Choudhry and amazed to read the same because I always used to write my full address on the first page my books . Full Address means:
Abdullah Khan
S/O Md. Quadir Khan
BMP Colony
Phulwari Sharief
PO- B V College
Patna-800014
State- Bihar
Country- India
Universe
The Solar System.
Amit Chaudhari is simly magical writer.
Comment by abdullah khan — October 15, 2006 @ 3:33 am