In 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Black British Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, I was invited by Newcastle University to give a lecture. Just imagine – in 200 years, no one had compiled even the most basic tool of research, a bibliography. That was why, despite all my limitations, I worked away […]
The Struggle for Black British Literature Read More »
Like most youngsters of my generation, I collected stamps, and found them hugely interesting as well as instructive in terms of geography and currencies. However, stamp-collecting did not lead me to any great appreciation of history. That was probably due to the fact that, as the family fortunes were then rather low, I could not
At about this time last year my elder son quit his very well paying job as a senior executive in a multi-national: he had had enough of the El Dorado mirage sold by the IIMs and IITs. He had been working 14 hour days non-stop for 16 years, paying Rs. 65000 a month for a
“Slow Living” and The Bob Dylan Paraprosdokian Read More »
The Himachal Pradesh chief minister recently announced that the state government has identified 50 new locations to develop tourism, including adventure sports. The prospect fills me with dread, because the government’s track record in this respect has been an environmental disaster so far. Forget the mess in Shimla, Manali, Kufri, Mashobra, McLeodganj or Kasauli. In
A trek away from disaster – II Read More »
In addition to those that have already been mentioned in earlier posts, here are the ones most keeping in mind: – Oxford University: Bodleian Library’s Special Collections appears to have only some letters from 1954, 1956 &19 58 (but I haven’t been able to check whether these are letters BY Chaudhuri or letters TO him); altogether,
Can anyone help us find out what happened to all the material that was on that page?
Stanford University used to have a page on Chaudhuri. That seems to have disappeared. Read More »
Apparently, on Chaudhuri’s death, according to his wish, all his paper and mementos were taken to Kolkata. They were then either loaned or donated to one of the most prominent Clubs in Kolkata, where they were initially displayed in some kind of cabinet or other special arrangement to highlight them. However, no trace of them
Nirad Chaudhuri – whatever happened to Chaudhuri’s papers and mementos? Read More »
For the last two weeks now the otherwise tranquil state of Himachal has been roiled in a vortex of Islamophobia, despicable politics, violence and opportunistic silence by those who should be speaking out. Right wing inspired crowds have been flooding the streets of Shimla, Mandi, Solan, Hamirpur and elsewhere, protesting against illegal mosques and “outsiders”(which
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Is anyone aware of any bibliography of Chaudhuri’s Bengali writings and speeches? If not, here is an interesting but essential task before any proper evaluation can be made of Chaudhuri as a thinker. As usual, answers can be posted here, or can be emailed to me via https://pipparannbooks.com/contact/
List of Chaudhuri’s writings in Bengali Read More »
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