Selected Articles by Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar on reading from The Satanic Verses in Jaipur, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 2012.

Amitava Kumar’s short-story, “The Foreigner,” Tehelka, January 7, 2012.

Amitava Kumar on Kashmir, Biblio, Vol. XV, Nos. 7 & 8, July Aug 2011.

Amitava Kumar on his dinner with a rock star, “One Fine Evening,” Caravan, July 2011.

Amitava Kumar on “Satya” and Manoj Bajpai, in The Popcorn Essayists, Edited by Jai Arjun Singh.

Amitava Kumar on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Biblio, November-December, 2010.

Amitava Kumar on the immigrant condition, “The Venerable, Vulnerable Taxi Drivers of New York,” Vanity Fair.com, August 26, 2010.

Amitava Kumar on secular common sense, “The Ground Zero Mosque’s Missing Muslims,” Vanity Fair.com, August 18, 2010.

Amitava Kumar on his meeting with a fictional man,  “A Normal Man in a Not So Normal World,” Caravan, August 2010.

Amitava Kumar’s report on a battle zone, “A Collaborator in Kashmir,” PEN America Journal, 2009.

Amitava Kumar’s report on terror, “A Missile in the Living Room,” Caravan, February 2010.

Amitava Kumar on the essay form, “The Reader I Want,” Tehelka, 30 January, 2010.

Amitava Kumar’s short short-story “Postmortem,” a contender for the “Three-Minute Fiction Contest” on National Public Radio

Amitava Kumar on Amit Chaudhuri, The National, July 3, 2009.

Amitava Kumar on his critical credos, minnesota review, nos. 71-72, Winter/Spring 2009.

Amitava Kumar on “Slumdog Millionaire,” Vanity Fair.com, December 23, 2008. Also this essay in The Daily Beast, November 24, 2008.

Amitava Kumar on authenticity and the South Asian political novel, Boston Review, November/December 2008. Also excerpted as “On Adiga’s The White Tiger“ in The Hindu, November 2, 2008.

Amitava Kumar on Norman Mailer and political conventions, The Hindu, September 7, 2008.

Amitava Kumar on the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Indian Express, August 27-30, 2008.
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Amitava Kumar on working in India, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 1, 2008.

Amitava Kumar on how to write a novel, The Hindu, March 4, 2007.

Amitava Kumar on Eqbal Ahmad, The Nation, November 27, 2006.

Amitava Kumar on Bihar at night, The Times of India, January 17, 2006.

Amitava Kumar on English textbooks, The Hindu, October 2, 2005.

Amitava Kumar on Salman Rushdie’s ‘Shalimar the Clown,’ Tehelka, August 6, 2005.

Amitava Kumar on what was new in Indian writing in English, The Hindu, June 5, 2005.

Amitava Kumar on Susan Sontag, Bookforum, Apr/May 2005.

Amitava Kumar on cricket, The Hindu, May 8, 2005.

Amitava Kumar on the limits of postcolonial theory, Rethinking Marxism, Volume 17, Number 02

Amitava Kumar on Suketu Mehta, The Nation, October 18, 2004

Amitava Kumar on his lunch with a bigot, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec 12, 2003

Amitava Kumar’s report from Kashmir, New Statesman, September 23, 2002

Amitava Kumar on reading ‘Paper,’ Kenyon Review, Summer 2002

Amitava Kumar on V.S. Naipaul’s ‘The Humour and the Pity,’ American Prospect, January 28, 2002

Amitava Kumar on Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul, The Nation, November 26, 2001

Amitava Kumar on V.S. Naipaul, The New Statesman, September 3, 2001

The letters by Indian and Pakistani school-children collected by Amitava Kumar, Harper’s Magazine, November, 2001

Amitava Kumar on the nuclear rivalry in the Indian subcontinent, The Nation, April 23, 2001

Amitava Kumar on the border, Transition, Issue 79, 2001

Amitava Kumar on Jhumpa Lahiri, Colorlines, September 30, 2000

Amitava Kumar on Vikram Seth, The Nation, July 5, 1999

Amitava Kumar on what is hot about Indian writing, Transition, Issue 79, 1998