Calcutta : two years in the city /
An account of the author's two years in Calcutta depicts the city's vibrant architecture, diverse classes, and evolving politics while exploring its self-renewing culture and resilience against globalization.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Aurum Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | An account of the author's two years in Calcutta depicts the city's vibrant architecture, diverse classes, and evolving politics while exploring its self-renewing culture and resilience against globalization. In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return he discovered that the Calcutta of his imagination had receded and another had taken its place. Lyrical, observant and profound, Calcutta is a personal account of two years (2009 2011) spent in one of the least known yet greatest cities of our time by one of our leading novelists. Using the historic elections of 2011 as a fulcrum, Chaudhuri looks back to the nineteenth century. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (373 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781908526311 1908526319 |