Small Orange Flags

by Amit Chaudhuri

This isa compilation of six essays and a poem by novelist amit chaudhury - written as anurgent response to what he feels is an ongoing state of emergency - followed by aconversation which takes up and further develops the same issues and concerns small orangeflags was written in early 1993 when he came back to india fromoxford, and encountered a changed world post the babri masjid demolition in itlie the seeds of the idea for his novel freedom song living in the mohulla,written after september 11, looks at human bonds across communities; inthoughts in a temple he meditates on hindutva and the changing face ofhinduism; neighbours and strife begins with an encounter in a greyhound bus,leading on to thoughts on minority activism in civil society; sticks, stonesand names has at its core a poem layered with disturbing images of war; and ina walk around schoeneberg he begins to see how silence overlays a disturbinghistory of erasure of the jews this volume lays bare disturbing and very urgen

79 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2003

About the author

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962, and grew up in Bombay. He read English at University College, London, where he took his BA with First Class Honours, and completed his doctorate on critical theory and the poetry of D.H. Lawrence at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Dervorguilla Scholar. He was Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1992-95, and Leverhulme Special Research Fellow at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, until April 1999, where he taught the Commonwealth and International Literatures paper of the English Tripos. He was on the faculty of the School of the Arts, Columbia University, for the Fall semester, 2002. He was appointed Samuel Fischer Guest Professor of Literature at Free University, Berlin, for the winter term 2005.

He is now Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.