One night two summers ago, I was in a car speeding across the border into the eastern Indian state of...
A Matter of Rats
A young woman with blond dreadlocks skateboards past Twisted Soul Food Concepts, a gleefully international eatery near Vassar College. Inside,...
Amitava Kumar is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College, New York and is the...
A Matter of Rats (Aleph, 342 pages, Rs. 295) by Amitava Kumar never glorifies Patna or defends it. And yet, despite the decline,...
Zafar Anjum presents a reader's report on Amitava Kumar's A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna I started...
Amitava Kumar’s A Matter of Rats book is not a biography of my city, but of his, says a reviewer...
Samrat reviews Amitava Kumar's A Matter of Rats in The Asian Age. Amitava Kumar’s short biography of Patna, A Matter of...
"I think our feudal mindset in Bihar translated very well in the modern age into bureaucracy," says Amitava Kumar, the...
If rats can be a delicacy in Hong Kong, why not in Bihar? Thanks to Amitava Kumar's book, one has...
You resolve, after finding and being disappointed by ‘Napoleon’s bed’ in Patna, to “look for more ordinary things, not least...
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