Author In Focus (Upamanya Chatterjee)
Upamanyu Chatterjee was born in 1959. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. His published works include short stories and the novels English, August: An Indian Story (1988), The Last Burden (1993), The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for writing in English, and Weight Loss (2006). In 2008, he was awarded the Order of Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government for his contribution to literature.
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Walkers in a Delhi neighbourhood park come upon a body on a mid-winter morning—an unidentified bod...
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Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friend...
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Between the ages of eighteen and thirty-seven, when he died, Bhola had just eight sexual partners, f...
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In powerful, austere prose shot through with black humour, Upamanyu Chatterjee has produced an inten...
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Nirip on the cusp of fifty is not happy with his life. His father is an ogre and his mother a witch....
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