Amit Majmudar
@AmitMajmudar
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Poet, novelist, radiologist. THREE METAMORPHOSES (Orison Books 2025), THINGS MY GRANDMOTHER SAID (Knopf 2026), THE GREAT GAME (Acre Books 2024)
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The 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...
When you read scriptures about Krishna (or even Vishnu or Ram), there are constant references to the beauty of his dark skin. Comparisons with thunderclouds, blue lotuses, the night sky, etc. Now imagine if Krishna were light-skinned & instead we saw similar metaphors. Think
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Question--. I notice India holds together populations that speak entirely different language families: Indo-European, Dravidian, and Sino-Tibetan. are there other nation-states have that much linguistic diversity (not different languages, different language families)? which ones?.
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RT @OrisonBooks: Now available for pre-order: Jane Zwart's highly anticipated debut poetry collection ✨✨ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST✨✨….
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Not to imply I don’t love many French works:.Charriere’s Papillon.St-exupery’s memoirs.Poems of Villon .Tristes Tropiques by Levi Strauss.Dumas’s count of Monte cristo part one.Verne’s around the world in 80 Days .The beginning of Hugo’s L’Homme qui Rit.Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
Only regret in my academic career: taking French in high school & college . Its literature does not really speak to my soul the way German & Italian do . Thinking I may self-study one of those languages in the coming years . Never too late. will hopefully avert/delay dementia.
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Only regret in my academic career: taking French in high school & college . Its literature does not really speak to my soul the way German & Italian do . Thinking I may self-study one of those languages in the coming years . Never too late. will hopefully avert/delay dementia.
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in 2018 I wrote a cold war spy novel--simultaneously a romance & a nostalgic love letter to a bygone America. I let it chill on my hard drive for 7 years, then randomly this summer I rewrote & revised it, & now I think I've successfully pulled off a tragicomedy. it's going places.
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RT @indumathi37: 🐢 The Turtle Magazine launches today, Ganesha Chaturthi 2025!. Founded and edited by @indumathi37 and @SnehaRao994, The T….
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RT @AmitMajmudar: Gallery view on Google (incomplete). Need to arrange for a bright green cover & a purple cover going forward. https://t.c….
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RT @thedarkhorsemag: Our new issue is now out, scotching rumours of our demise; & the biggest edition in our 30-year history. Orders and mo….
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Gallery view on Google (incomplete). Need to arrange for a bright green cover & a purple cover going forward.
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Polished off George Bernard Shaw a while back. Next up is a major dramatist I haven’t read much of—Moliere, in Richard Wilbur’s translations, which are so highly regarded the Library of America has collected them in two volumes.
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RT @OrisonBooks: Join us for our 10th Anniversary Celebration, featuring poetry and dance from Amit Majmudar and Ami Buch Majmudar, on Octo….
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Great example from @vjgtweets of how “Politics makes strange bedfellows”. This is an example that relates to the Indian identity—but it’s the Hindu identity where the bigotry-overlap between far right nativism & diasporic activism goes on overdrive.
L: White nationalist bemoaning the fact that Indian immigrants are too well behaved and insufficiently extremist to turn average GOP voters against them. R: leftist “south asian” activist groups arguing that no, actually, Hindus pose a dire threat to American values. A perfect
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RT @AmitMajmudar: 3 examples of heroic madness:. The madness of Rama after Sita’s abduction, in Valmiki’s Ramayana . The madness of Orlando….
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Orlando’s mad scene (and that of Amadis of Gaul, who also had one) is directly satirized by Cervantes in chapter 25 of part I of Don Quixote.
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3 examples of heroic madness:. The madness of Rama after Sita’s abduction, in Valmiki’s Ramayana . The madness of Orlando when he discovers Angelica loves someone else, in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. The madness of Hercules murdering his wife & children in Seneca’s Hercules Furens.
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RT @thedarkhorsemag: Our new issue, some copies of which were posted out to subscribers yesterday, arriving this morning. Thank you for thi….
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