Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
@avroch
Essays in @NewYorker @NYTMag @nytimesbooks @guardian @Hazlitt @thenation @newrepublic / fiction @IowaWritersWksp
Irrfan Khan died exactly two years ago today. I think about him every day. I went long for @Hazlitt on my obsession with Khan, what it was like to grow up watching him on screens in India and the US. These are a fan’s furtive notes, written over years hazlitt.net/longreads/lone…
"humans have [always] practiced love, but very few have understood the protocols of hate, which has an acuity more pleasurable than love" The Brutal Masterworks of Saadat Hasan Manto @avroch @readliberties (echoes Homer: hate-fuelled revenge is “sweeter than dripping streams of…
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 . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-b…
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 . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-b…
ABSOLUTE MUST READ
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 . Really excited for you to read this! libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-b…
I have a longish piece on Manto in this issue. In such good company!
I am honored to have *five* poems in the new summer issue of @readliberties, which is simply one of the top independent journals of any kind at the moment. And what company! Read it. Deep thanks to @Celestemarcus3, etc. and compliments to the team on another exceptional issue.
There is only one correct answer here. A Month in the Country, obviously
Someone asked us for a rec of the “most fun NYRB classic” and we’re unqualified in this area… What would you read on the back of a motorcycle? What do you take on voyage to the moon?
I wrote about a new history of the Indian partition for this week's issue of @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/culture/books/…
Some thoughts on Tash Aw's THE SOUTH for @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/…
You could, instead, choose to read something on Martin Amis not written by a bot. hazlitt.net/feature/martin…
No longer the prime minister, but he continues to be UK's chief facepalm ambassador
Rishi Sunak 😭😭🤣
Some years ago, I wrote this long essay on his life and work for @the_point_mag thepointmag.com/criticism/man-…
He was one of the few filmmakers to win awards at Cannes,Venice,Berlin. His film Bhuvan Shome initiated the New Wave Cinema movement in India. He is Mrinal Sen,who brought 'real to reel'.I’m not the right person to write about him;I can only revisit his films and thank him.(1/14)
HBD, Satyajit Ray!!
100 years of Satyajit Ray today. I'm going to do a thread on the essays I've written on him over the years: 1) This, on his middle period, for @Hazlitt hazlitt.net/feature/when-s…
Satyajit Ray's NAYAK (THE HERO) has been released in theatres again in India. Some time ago I wrote this piece on the film for @TheTLS when @Criterion launched a DVD edition of the movie. the-tls.co.uk/arts/film/raw-…
There is also this longish thing I wrote on Ray's middle period and stint in Hollywood for @Hazlitt hazlitt.net/feature/when-s…