O Calcutta!: Ben Judah, Devapriya Roy, Kunal Basu and Arunava Sinha
Ben Judah’s first book, Fragile Empire, was a Financial Times Summer Book of 2013. This Is London was longlisted for the Ballie Gifford Prize and is currently a finalist for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize for Literary Reportage. His journalism, amongst many other places, has appeared in The Sunday Times, The New York Times, Atlantic and the Financial Times.
Devapriya Roy is the author of three novels, The Vague Woman's Handbook, The Weight Loss Club and, most recently, Friends from College, which was serialised in The Telegraph for 42 weeks. In 2018, she published Indira, a graphic biography of Mrs Gandhi, created with artist Priya Kuriyan. Roy is best-known for the travel-memoir The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple's Guide to Bharat, co-written with partner Saurav Jha, the story of an eccentric journey around India on the princely budget of 500 rupees a day for bed and board, which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-A.C. Nielsen list.
Kunal Basu is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Miniaturist and Kalkatta, and a collection of stories titled The Japanese Wife, the lead story of which was made into an award-winning film. He has also written novels in Bengali.
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. Over 50 of his translations have been published so far. His recent and forthcoming translations include Kunal Basu's The Endgame, Bani Basu's Moom, Taslima Nasrin's Shameless, Akhtaruzzman Elias's Khwabnama and Desire for Fire: Modern Bengali Poetry in Translation.
The city of joy, the city of palaces, even Kipling’s city of dreadful night, Kolkata. The city of many names is home to myriad cuisines, cultures and histories. Journalist and author Ben Judah has written of his Baghdadi Jewish ancestry rooted in the city. Acclaimed novelist Kunal Basu presents a portrait of life in its lesser known ghettos for the marginalised. Writer Devapriya Roy’s Friends From College bridges past and present and offers a nostalgia trip through Calcutta. In conversation with writer and translator Arunava Sinha, they speak of their connects with Calcutta and the special place the city holds for them.
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