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Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (born 8 September 1934) is a historian, author, writer, graphic artist and latterly, a film-maker. He is the second son of the Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri.Chaudhuri has spent most of his adult life travelling and working in the Middle East, North Africa, South America, and Europe.
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To Live Or Not to Live!: An Essay on Living Happily with Others Volume 59 of Orient paperbacks: Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Publisher: Hind Pocket Books, 1970: Original from: the University of California: Digitized: Mar 20, 2007: Length: 197 pages: Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan.
The Indian-born author and scholar Nirad C Chaudhuri, who has died at the age of 101, was never shy of controversy. Chaudhuri, who suffered a stroke last month and died peacefully at his Oxford home on Sunday, was best known for his first work, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.
Nirad G. Chaudhuri's autobiography is one of the classic of contemporary Indian literature. When it was first published in 1951 it was instantly acclaimed. and provoked a furious debate for its controversial insights into India and European history.Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is both a profoundly analysis of twentieth-century historical trends as the personal story of an erudite, humane.
Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian covers the author's years from his birth in 1897 to 1947. Ramchandra Guha rated this as one of the best autobiographies by an Indian. Chaudhuri describes his own life, growing up in Kishoreganj, now in Bangladesh, to his life as a student in Calcutta and then as a young man.
The wife of the writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri, she ran her household in north Oxford from an upstairs room with clockwork precision. She herself took up writing in Bengali only when she was in her.