Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Amitava Kumar
Born: March 17, 1963 (age 62)
Bio: Amitava Kumar(born 17 March 1963 ) is an Indian writer and journalist who is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College.
Known for:
- Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World (2015)
- A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna (2013)
- Bombay--London--New York (2002)
- Husband of a Fanatic (2004)
- World Bank Literature
- Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
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