Hi this is Chinmoy Guha

I teach English literature at Calcutta University. I edited the book reviews of a well-known journal for ten years. I taught French at Alliance Française for a decade and worked as Director of Publications at the French Embassy, New Delhi. I have written a few books of essays including one on T S Eliot, and attempted to translate among other things La Rochefoucauld's Maxims. My best moments were spent with family and friends. My father was my idol. I am hurt by insincerity and ingratitude.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Documentaries of the Central Institute of Indian Languages

I have anchored on-screen the following documentaries on Indian Literature for the Bhasha-Mandakini project of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Rabindranath Tagore (Letters) Arun Mitra Buddhadeb Bosu Krittibas Ojha Kaliprasanna Singha Peary Chand Mitra Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay

Monday, November 4, 2013

Wiki mischief

After my recent title of Knight of Arts and Letters, a few gentlemen from another University have mutilated and vandalised the Wikipedia article on me! This can happen only in Bengal. They have chopped off the Times of India's comment on me as "India's best-known French scholar" and omitted the passage on Derrida's admiration for me, elaborately reported in Times of India and Hindustan Times after his visit. This reminds me of the Bengali gentleman who had actually gone to court to prove that Amartya Sen hadn't won the Nobel Prize!!