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News and Articles on Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Heat of the moment Jul 15, 2006
Jan Dalley shows how The Black Hole of Calcutta was the result of stupidity rather than cruelty, in her skilful account of Siraj-ud-daulah's attack, says Geoffrey Moorhouse. Saturday July 15, 2006. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature Nov 3, 2004
Among the English-language writers: Graham Greene favorite R.K. Narayan, renowned curmudgeon Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Pankaj Mishra, and a host of lesser-known talents, including Dom Moraes and Ruskin Bond. The few women writers include Urdu poet Qurratulain Hyder, whose diary-like "Memories of an Indian Childhood" sparkles with the intricacies of everyday life in an Indian hill town, and the redoubtable Bengali litterateur and activist Mahashweta Devi, who tells a touching story of... (Village Voice)
The moor ' s legacy Nov 15, 2003
Telling Tales / Amit Chaudhuri. All his life, Nirad C. Chaudhuri strove to both express his Bengaliness and to escape it; if his first act of distancing was to write his autobiography in the English language, his second act of distancing himself from his intellectual antecedents was his lapidary dedication itself, placed at the beginning of the book, which made him infamous in his own land: 'TO THE MEMORY OF THE/ BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA/ WHICH CONFERRED SUBJECTHOOD ON US/ BUT WITHHELD... (Calcutta Telegraph, India)
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