Afternoon Raag
Title | Afternoon Raag PDF eBook |
Author | Amit Chaudhuri |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681378051 |
Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonderfully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.
The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri
Title | The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri PDF eBook |
Author | Sheo Bhushan Shukla |
Publisher | Sarup & Sons |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Indie fiction (English) |
ISBN | 9788176254465 |
Amit Chaudhuri, b. 1962, Indo-English novelist; contributed articles.
Finding the Raga
Title | Finding the Raga PDF eBook |
Author | Amit Chaudhuri |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 168137479X |
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family’s native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. Finding the Raga chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. Finding the Raga combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.
A Strange and Sublime Address
Title | A Strange and Sublime Address PDF eBook |
Author | Amit Chaudhuri |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2024-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681378094 |
Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation. Ten-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer, Sandeep and his mother travel to Calcutta to spend time with his aunt, his self-absorbed and improvident uncle, and Abhi, his favorite cousin. His relatives’ house is shadowy and rambling; the vast city around it ramshackle and alluring. They fascinate curious, observant Sandeep. Days pass; the heat grows; the rains come; the visit ends. In the winter, Sandeep and his family return to Calcutta—and encounter an unexpected turn of events. But Sandeep has arrived at a new sense of things, an understanding of how the marvelous inheres in the mundane, that will be his, we feel, for good. At once delicate and incisive, A Strange and Sublime Address succeeds in both immersing us in a boy’s inner world and depicting that boy and his world from outside. It was Amit Chaudhuri’s first book, the work of a novelist whose striking originality of conception would subsequently become ever more clear. The three decades since the publication of A Strange and Sublime Address have only confirmed its appeal and poetry.
10 Thaats in Harmonium
Title | 10 Thaats in Harmonium PDF eBook |
Author | Sadakat Aman Khan |
Publisher | Mr. Harmonium |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN |
A well explained Book about 10 Thaats of Hindustani Classical Music and How to play 10 thaats in Harmonium are written in this book with correct finger patterns and clear diagrams.
(in)fusion Approach
Title | (in)fusion Approach PDF eBook |
Author | Ranjan Ghosh |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780761834649 |
(In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists.
The Grandmother's Tale
Title | The Grandmother's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | R. K. Narayan |
Publisher | Arrow |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Collection of three novellas, one of a grandmother, one of an old miser, and one of a childless couple