Selected Articles by Amitava Kumar

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 89, 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