India Today

Striking a Universal CHORD

eaders probably know of Amit Chaudhuri as a writer par excellence, with eight novels, four non-fiction books, a poetry collection and a host of well-cited studies and essays to his credit. But the 60-year-old multihyphenate also has a sideline in music, dating all the way back to when he was a 17-year-old high school student writing and performing English songs on All India Radio. He trained in Indian classical singing under his, releasing recordings of Indian classical and .

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from India Today

India Today4 min read
Under Siege
Beginning in the 1950s, and especially over the past four decades, the Owaisis and their All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) have run an unchallenged political monopoly in Hyderabad. While not losing the Lok Sabha constituency even once si
India Today5 min read
Congress ‘Eq’ Vs Bjp ‘Iq’
Five years back, an upbeat Congress in Chhattisgarh went into the 2019 general election riding high on the success of the 2018 assembly polls in which it had won 68 of 90 seats and unseated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state after one and
India Today3 min read
Falling Back on Ram
It’s not new from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by ‘Ram bhakt’ Arvind Kejriwal, but worth noting because god is in the details. It was Ram Navami on April 17. And a perfect occasion for the embattled party, whose supremo has been in judicial custody

Related Books & Audiobooks