{"title":"Amit Majmudar","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmit Majmudar explores the rich tapestry of human experience through essays and memoirs that intertwine personal reflection with broader cultural insights. His works invite readers into thoughtful examinations of identity, creativity, and the complexities of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen eye for the arts and culture, Majmudar offers writing that is both lyrical and intellectually engaging, making his books a compelling choice for those drawn to thoughtful, evocative prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"black-avatar-and-other-essays-by-amit-majmudar-9781946724618","title":"Black Avatar – and Other Essays","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar, \u003ci\u003eBlack Avatar\u003c\/i\u003e combines elements of memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eight pieces in this deeply engaging volume reflect author Amit Majmudar’s comprehensive studies of American, European, and Indian traditions, as well as his experiences in both suburban Ohio and the western Indian state of Gujarat. The volume begins with the title piece, a fifteen-part examination of “How Colorism Came to India.” Tracing the evolution of India’s bias in favour of light skin, Majmudar reflects on the effects of colonialism, drawing upon sources ranging from early Sanskrit texts to contemporary film and television.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOther essays illuminate subjects both timely and timeless. “The Ramayana and the Birth of Poetry” discusses how suffering is portrayed in art and literature (“The spectrum of suffering: slapstick on one end, scripture on the other, with fiction and poetry... in the vastness between them”), while in “Five Famous Asian War Photographs”—a 2018 \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e selection—Majmudar analyses why these iconic images of atrocity have such emotional resonance. In “Nature\/Worship,” another multi-part piece, the author turns his attention to climate change, linking notions of environmentalism to his ancestral tradition of finding divinity within the natural world, connections that form the basis of religious belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the greatest achievement of these wide-ranging essays is the prose itself—learned yet lively, erudite yet accessible—nimbly revealing the workings of a wonderfully original mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855736852716,"sku":"9781946724618","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ff216694bff3ea46bbddca7e21392179.jpg?v=1759277117"},{"product_id":"the-great-game-by-amit-majmudar-9781946724830","title":"The Great Game","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Great Game\u003c\/em\u003e, poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmudar ranges widely, writing with characteristic verve on canonical authors such as Milton, Byron, and Emily Dickinson, contemporaries like Kay Ryan, and other traditions of world literature. He examines verse drama and philosophy and even touches on writers of popular prose like Robert Ludlum and Ray Bradbury. A radiologist as well as a writer, Majmudar brings together the diagnostician's precision with the poet's imagination and an encyclopedic base of knowledge. He practices literary criticism as a global art, one with the intensity of verse, the depth of philosophy, and the scope of history—and does so with the infectious curiosity of a passionate reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the most powerful essays here are synoptic meditations on science and poetry in which Majmudar shows that anyone trying to make fresh sense of the world, be it Milton or Kepler or Dickinson or Darwin, is practicing something like poetic meaning-making. The collection's diverse inquiries are held together by Majmudar's sustained, thoughtful, delightfully inventive attention to poetic form as an idea, to specific forms like the ghazal and the epic, and by his nimble, empathetic readings of individual writers. \u003cem\u003eThe Great Game\u003c\/em\u003e is an intellectually thrilling tour of poetry across centuries, geographic divides, and even the disciplinary boundaries that separate science from philosophy from poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428262854892,"sku":"9781946724830","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781946724830.jpg?v=1774497333"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/amit-majmudar.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}