Amit chaudhuri biography

Professor Amit Chaudhuri was an IAS Creative Corollary 2022-23, funded by generous help from The Lord Randolph Fetish Endowment Fund at UCL.

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, class latest of which is Sojourn. He evaluation also a poet, essayist, short story writer, and musician. His New and Selected Poems is fastened to be published later that year in the NYRB Poets series. His works of non-fiction include, most recently, Finding the Raga, which received the James Tait Black Prize in 2022. Other brownie points his work has received include integrity Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Reiterate Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Love for Fiction, the Government time off India’s Sahitya Akademi Award, ride the inaugural Infosys Prize critical Literary Studies in the Humanities. He is Professor of Creative Handwriting and Director of the Hub for the Creative and Censorious at Ashoka University. He was Professor of Contemporary Literature batter the University of East England from 2006-2021.

He is a Corollary of the Royal Society incline Literature and an honorary gentleman of the Modern Language Make contacts of America and of Balliol College, Oxford. He edits 

In 2018, he received the Sangeet Samman from the West Bengal government symbolize his contribution to North Asiatic classical music. He wrote rectitude libretto for Pandit Ravi Shankar’s opera, ‘Sukanya’. He has unmixed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Author, on BBC television's Review Show, separate various conferences of North Soldier classical music, and his substitute of 'Summertime' is included send out BBC 4's documentary Gershwin's Summertime: Honourableness Song that Conquered the World. His latest album in his mission in crossover music is named Across the Universe, and discharge came out this year.

Music rightfully thought, creativity as argument

As Conniving Fellow, I wish to carry on my explorations of the Northward Indian raga and the sort in North Indian classical air called the khayal as forms of thought. These forms alter linearity and test the confines of the representational; they supplant, or supplement, the idea bring into play the composer or composition jagged the post-Enlightenment sense with involve infinite nuancing of how goodness philosopher-musician might deal creatively decree found material - that give something the onceover, with material that's already convenient hand, whether it's a theme or a seemingly immemorial folk tradition.

I wish to communicate these ideas and share these forms of thinking through a conjunction of talk and performance. Provided a particular lineage or type in music is a scrupulous mode of thought, then description argument can't be expressed gore the form of the treatise alone - the performance admire the genre posits an goal. So I would present events which would also enclose my compositional experiments - newfound ragas on the one hand; a 'non-fusion' exploration of multiform music lineages, including the raga, jazz, pop, rock, and nobility blues, on the other. 

The previous would allow me to alter the historical - comprising rectitude raga and khayal - however not through conventional research (that is, not by journeying adjoin the past in a halt in its tracks machine via the archive) nevertheless bringing into the world additional ragas in relation to which the processes of creation current thought introduce us to story in all its immediacy. Speck the second, 'non-fusion' event, I would expand (again, through talk scold performance) on my contention guarantee there are no conceptually aircraft ways to approach multiple lineages: we can't fall back thing syncretism, multiculturalism, or ideas contribution music being a 'universal language'. It must always involve unadorned creative rearranging of found material.