And So The Qawwali Meets The Meera Bhajan

And So The Qawwali Meets The Meera Bhajan

Book REVIEW:

Don't be distracted by his novelist reputation; Amit Chaudhuri proves to be an incisive cultural critic

By Alok Rai

“That "four-star", particularly, is very finely judged. However, it would be a pity if the novelist’s reputation were to distract attention from the fact that he is an insightful cultural critic. I must confess to a twinge of disappointment when I learnt that Chaudhuri was employed in distant Norwich. Chaudhuri’s title seems to imply that there is some kind of jungle of controversy, some intrusive undergrowth of argument about these matters in our India. In fact, there is a resounding silence. Gossip abounds—and pretty young things—but there is hardly any space in our public world for the kind of detailed essays, published in sundry heavy-duty Western periodicals, in which Chaudhuri has developed his argument.

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