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Observations of Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar, a writer and professor of English at Vassar College and the author of Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World (Duke University Press Books, 2015), talks about encounters with people and ideas in this country and India, including a lunch with an ultra-right Hindu politician whose group had put him on a hit list.

→ Forthcoming readings from Lunch with a Bigot:

Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, May 9, 2015, 7 PM
Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, May 12, 2015, 7 PM, in conversation with Dani Shapiro
Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz, May 15, 2015, 7 PM

.@amitavakumar here in the studio today: pic.twitter.com/ym4CZNeRs6
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) May 8, 2015

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