Archive - Amitava Kumar’s Substack

Children's Tales

My piece on the Andamans in Granta

Dec 10 • Amitava Kumar

November 2025

A Boy At A Wedding

What Do You See, What Do You See

Nov 30 • Amitava Kumar

A Man With Three Cows—And A Story

From the Village to Town, A Journey in Journalism

Nov 27 • Amitava Kumar

A Scene from Cinema

(Also: Come and see me in Bengaluru and Delhi. Dates below.)

Nov 21 • Amitava Kumar

Letters to a Young Writer

Words and drawings from my diary The Yellow Book published two years ago

Nov 16 • Amitava Kumar

You Will Not Remember All Of This

(But Wasn't It Wonderful To Get News of Zohran's Victory?)

Nov 9 • Amitava Kumar

The Jemimah Test

How Do We Come to Believe What We Believe

Nov 2 • Amitava Kumar

October 2025

Here is My Hudson Line Album

Oct 26 • Amitava Kumar

A Bit of Bad Writing Is Helpful

Writing Workshop Notes

Oct 19 • Amitava Kumar

A Train Is Approaching

Announcing a New Book

Oct 10 • Amitava Kumar

Hudson River Preschool of Painting

Oct 6 • Amitava Kumar

Portrait of a Model

Pooja Shyam Prabhat's journey from the province to the fashionable city

Oct 1 • Amitava Kumar

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