Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Abhrajyoti Chakraborty lives in Iowa City and New Delhi. He was a Provost’s Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 2013 to 2015.

Factory or Forest, Modernity and Climate Change

Factory or Forest, Modernity and Climate Change Factory or Forest, Modernity and Climate Change

In India, the pathology of denial about global warming reveals the real crisis at our door—one of imagination.

May 19, 2017 / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

An Ongoing Dream

An Ongoing Dream An Ongoing Dream

Recurring in almost all of Amit Chaudhuri’s is a stubborn urge: a wish to continue seeing and discovering things as a child.

Jun 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

Social Democratic Party of India activists carrying placards with photographs of Yakub Memon, July 27, 2015.

‘Who Is Going to Believe You?’ ‘Who Is Going to Believe You?’

The fate of Yakub Memon, who was executed last summer by the Indian state, shows that reality needn’t be transfigured for its absurdity to be understood.

Dec 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

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