METICULOUS PORTRAYAL OF CALCUTTA IN AMIT CHAUDHURI’S A STRANGE AND SUBLIME ADDRESS

Abstract

     Amit Chaudhuri is a multitalented writer of Contemporary Indian writings in English. He is one among the diasporic writers, carries the fresh Indian sensibility abroad and represent through the fiction in a realistic manner. He writes his novel in an extraordinary way, that makes music stating and restating his themes, trying them out in different keys and to various effect developing and dropping them only to pick them again and turn them completely around. Chaudhuri’s novels provide new vision on the ideology of the Western and Indian domesticity. He pictures life’s everyday activities with perfections of daily existence with depth and compassion of distinctive manner. He is the one who portrayed the natural cultural sensibility in his novels through the representation of experiences in the home. A Strange and Sublime Address is the best example for the representation of Cultural Sensibility, family and identities in the two different cities in India, especially Bengal. This paper portrays Calcutta  in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address

KEYWORDS: Portrayal, Burgeoning, Restating, Ideology, Distinctive, Cultural Sensibility and Identities.