About Amitabha Bagchi

A Conversation with Amitabha Bagchi, and Excerpts from his novel, Above Average.

Another Subcontinent is proud to present excerpts from Amitabha Bagchi's new novel Above Average (Harper Collins, 2007) and a detailed conversation about the novel between Amitabha Bagchi and Ashima Sood. Amitabha and Ashima will join the discussion of the novel on our forums. The conversation and excerpts will be featured on Another Subcontinent till Apr 5, 2007 and will be archived thereafter in the "Writing" section.

The conversation between Amitabha and Ashima was conducted over email and instant messenger.

Read the conversation here.
Read the excerpts here.
Discuss them both here.

About Amitabha Bagchi

Amitabha Bagchi was born in Delhi and went to school there. The last few years of school were a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992 thinking that the worst was over. It was not.

Belying the expectations raised by his uninspriring performance at IIT, Amitabha got his PhD in Computer Science in 2002. Then, after loitering around for a couple of years with the nebulous designation of post-doc, he returned to IIT Delhi where he is currently employed as an assistant professor. Amitabha has been a member of AnotherSubcontinent since the day after it began. His member number is 8.

Above Average is available in bookstores all over India, and in the US may be purchased from the Parabaas Bookstore.

More information about Amitabha and his book are available on the official website for Above Average.

The image on the front page of the feature is taken from the cover of Above Average, designed by Moonis Ijlal.

This feature continues Another Subcontinent's expansion of our mission, to feature not only new writing by South Asian writers and about South Asia, but to also promote and support writing by published writers who we would like to help bring to an even larger audience. This has, of course, been our approach with visual artists from the very beginning. Another Subcontinent does not benefit financially from featuring published writers, and has no relationship of any kind with featured authors' publishers.


home about contact policies submissions feature archives audio visual writing reviews forums art film & television food literature music society & culture elsewhere desilit parabaas sasialit sawnet upper stall	A Conversation with Amitabha Bagchi, and Excerpts from his novel, Above Average. Another Subcontinent is proud to present excerpts from Amitabha Bagchi's new novel Above Average (Harper Collins, 2007) and a detailed conversation about the novel between Amitabha Bagchi and Ashima Sood. Amitabha and Ashima will join the discussion of the novel on our forums. The conversation and excerpts will be featured on Another Subcontinent till Apr 5, 2007 and will be archived thereafter in the "Writing" section. The conversation between Amitabha and Ashima was conducted over email and instant messenger. Read the conversation here. Read the excerpts here. Discuss them both here. About Amitabha Bagchi Amitabha Bagchi was born in Delhi and went to school there. The last few years of school were a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992 thinking that the worst was over. It was not. Belying the expectations raised by his uninspriring performance at IIT, Amitabha got his PhD in Computer Science in 2002. Then, after loitering around for a couple of years with the nebulous designation of post-doc, he returned to IIT Delhi where he is currently employed as an assistant professor. Amitabha has been a member of AnotherSubcontinent since the day after it began. His member number is 8. Above Average is available in bookstores all over India, and in the US may be purchased from the Parabaas Bookstore. More information about Amitabha and his book are available on the official website for Above Average. The image on the front page of the feature is taken from the cover of Above Average, designed by Moonis Ijlal. This feature continues Another Subcontinent's expansion of our mission, to feature not only new writing by South Asian writers and about South Asia, but to also promote and support writing by published writers who we would like to help bring to an even larger audience. This has, of course, been our approach with visual artists from the very beginning. Another Subcontinent does not benefit financially from featuring published writers, and has no relationship of any kind with featured authors' publishers.