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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy is the author of How I Became a Tree (2017), Missing (2018), My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories (2019), and two poetry collections, Out of Syllabus (2019) and VIP: Very Important Plant (2022). She teaches at Ashoka University in Haryana, India.

Articles

The IIC School Versus the JLF School of Indian English
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life....
Sep 22
- Memoir
Creative-Critical, Inc.
Rather than occasional criticism by amateurs, I should think the whole enterprise might be seriously taken in hand by professionals. Perhaps I use a distasteful figure, but I have the idea that what we need is Criticism, Inc., or Criticism, Ltd.” — ...
Nov 10, 2020
Creative-Critical, Inc.
Rather than occasional criticism by amateurs, I should think the whole enterprise might be seriously taken in hand by professionals. Perhaps I use a distasteful figure, but I have the idea that what we need is Criticism, Inc., or Criticism, Ltd.” — ...
Sumana RoyNov 10, 2020
Guilt Lit
The way it ought to be I leave to the sociologists.” —Toni Morrison WE ARE LIVING in the age of public guilt. Just as the vague and clumsy phrase “carbon footprint” exists to cause us guilt about our travel and holidays, ...
Sep 9, 2020
Guilt Lit
The way it ought to be I leave to the sociologists.” —Toni Morrison WE ARE LIVING in the age of public guilt. Just as the vague and clumsy phrase “carbon footprint” exists to cause us guilt about our travel and holidays, ...
Sumana RoySep 9, 2020
The Provincial Reader
Sumana Roy reflects on the loss — or the proliferation — of the provincial reader....
Apr 19, 2020
- Memoir
- Translation
On Being Raised by New Critics in a Small Indian Town
What literary studies lost when the New Critics were dethroned....
Feb 8, 2020
- Translation
On Gravity and Play: In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship....
Mar 4, 2019
- Fiction
- Translation
The Deeply Unserious, Important Work of Amit Chaudhuri
Sumana Roy on the joy and influence of Amit Chaudhuri's work....
Feb 16, 2017
- Fiction