The Essential

By N. Manu Chakravarthy (editor), Chandan Gowda (editor),

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Anjum Hasan

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I am drawn to writing on Indian literature and on being an Indian writer when it comes from novelists themselves rather than as an academic production.

UR Ananthamurthy belonged to both fields; he was a teacher of literature and a critic and also one of the big names of the generation of novelists born in the 1930s and 1940s.

This collection offers a fascinating range of ideas on how one might make oneself an Indian writer, how to tap into traditional sources, how not to make a monument of the past, and how to remain creative and rooted at the…

From Anjum's 3 favorite reads in 2023.