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Essays and Articles
- Uncanny (Editorial, Kitaab Quarterly, 2024)
- Parliament of Beings (posthumanism) (The Telegraph, 2023)
- Solarpunk - A Brilliant Subculture (The Telegraph, 2023)
- Assam's Kokrajhar Literature Festival shows how literature festivals can be truly inclusive (Scroll, 2023)
- A Wise Principle - the precautionary principle (The Telegraph, op-ed, 2023)
- Fashion, Unfashion ebong Agami (About Lifestyles, Conspicuous Consumption and simple living) (Daak Bangla, in Bengali, 2023)
- Climate Change and Indian Literature (Reading Corner, 2023)
- The Wicked Problem of Climate Change and our Entanglement with it (Scroll, 2023)
- Engaging the Evil-god - Covid-19, precaution, questions for the future (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express)
- One of the co-authors in a paper published in Nature Sustainability journal: Sustainable Agrifood Systems in a Post-Growth World (August 2022) www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00933-5
- Co-authored introduction to the book Multispecies Cities -- Solarpunk Urban futures (Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura and Rajat Chaudhuri) published by World Weaver Press, USA.
- Environmental Justice - An intervention for the Keywords project (Climate Cultures)
- Interesting Times er Ticketghorey - Reading Amitav Ghosh's climate change novel Gun Island in Bengali. (Boikotha literary magazine)
- Let's Talk about Shame - Shame of Overconsumption (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express, 2021)
- Tech in the Time of Climate Woes - Geoengineering (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express, 2021)
- An Everlasting Plate-Sustainable Food and Climate change (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express, 2021)
- Solarpunk-Punk Sahityer Surjosparsha, SOLARPUNK— পাঙ্ক সাহিত্যের সূর্যস্পর্শ
(Short essay in Daak Bangla magazine in Bengali) - Gholajoley Virus, ঘোলাজলে à¦াইরাস (Essay about climate, history and the virus of disaster capitalism in Daak Bangla magazine in Bengali.)
- Vaccines and Sinking Cities - An article about our video game (The Telegraph)
- Phantoms and Fiery Ice-Methane and Climate change (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express, 2020)
- Estranged Times and the Decades Ahead-Climate, People, Technology, video games (Named column `Eleventh Hour' in New Indian Express, 2020)
- Bad Advertising, Better Futures (New Indian Express, 2020)
- A Yardstick for Internet Empires-An aggregated index for social media (New Indian Express, 2020)
- A World Without Children-Climate change and the Child-Free (New Indian Express, 2020)
- The Night of the Algorithms (New Indian Express, 2020)
- What will be the New Utopia (New Indian Express, 2020)
- A Green Future of Work (New Indian Express, 2020) (Best Opinion reads in The Quint)
- Between Hope and Despair-Post Pandemic Possible Futures(New Indian Express, 2020)
- Angry Planet (New Indian Express, 2020)
- What Can Literature Tell us about the post-coronavirus World? (Scroll)
- Will Stories Save the Planet?(New Indian Express & Sunday Standard, 2020)
- Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change -Part 1 (Scroll)
- Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change -Part 2 (Scroll)
- Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change -Part 3 (Scroll)
- Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island (Kitaab)
- Apocalypse Averted-The Right Sort of Science Fiction may Save the Planet (The Telegraph)
- Seeds of Deception (The Telegraph)
- Introduction to the book The Best Asian Speculative Fiction(Scroll)
- Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who Would Win a Dystopian Fiction Contest (Scroll)
- Climate Change in these Three Novels is Even More Terrifying than Real Life (Scroll)
- Series on Road Novels -- Cormac McCarthy's The Road
- Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement-Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Scroll)
- Series on Road Novels -- Kerouac's On the Road (Scroll)
- Series on Road Novels -- Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann (Scroll)
- Chitpur Local and the Rip Van Winkles of Calcutta (American Book Review)
- An English Spring-Writing in England (The Telegraph)
- Three Stories About Love (essay) Thresholds (Univ of Chichester)
- Literature and Death (essay) Scroll
- Authors who don’t: being a recluse in the time of literary festivals Scroll
- Aralbilasi lekhokera - Article about reclusive authors Anandabazar Patrika
- Listicle (PrabashiPost)
- Op-ed about cybersecurity Anandabazar Patrika
- Writing and Remembering Korea Arts Council Korea
- Writing and Remembering Korea
Calcutta Blog (TIMES OF INDIA BLOGS -- Esplanade Chatter)
- Who was Oriental Jones of Calcutta - II
- Who was Oriental Jones of Calcutta - I
- Sulphur Nights in Calcutta
- Zero Street Rendezvous - Reimagining Calcutta Names
- Five Escapes for Lovers
- Calcutta's Best Kept Food Secret
Translations
- Translated article about episodes of the Mahabharata written by Arpan Chakraborty (The Antonym magazine, USA)
- Translation of Bengali short story - Ants (Lifi Books)
- Translated Bengali poems of Aysa Jhorna (The Antonym magazine, USA)
- Translation of Bengali short story - Ants (Lifi Books)
- Translated Bengali poems of Agni Roy (Indian Literature journal, Sept-Oct 2020, Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters, India)
- Translated Bengali poems of Tanmoy Mridha (Indian Literature journal, July-Aug 2020, Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters, India)
- Translated Bengali poems by Arpan Chakraborty (Indian Literature journal, May-June 2020, Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters, India)
- Translated Bengali poems by Agni Roy - Poetry reading (Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters, India)(Video 20:55 to 29:23)
- Translated Bengali poem by Arpan Chakraborty - Video reading at Poetry By Midnight (Poetry by Midnight, Niyogi Books)
- Translated Bengali poem on Climate Change by Novera Hossain - Text and Video reading (Climate Cultures, UK)
- Translated Bengali poem of Agni Roy-Video Reading (YouTube)
- Translated Bengali poems of Pratyush Bandopadhyay (Bengaluru Review)
- Translated Bengali poems of Gourango Mondal (Kitaab, Singapore)
Short Stories and Excerpts
Rajat Chaudhuri's books of stories Hotel Calcutta and Calculus. Short stories have appeared in L'Allure des Mots, USA; Eclectica, Vol 14, No 3, USA; Notes from the Underground, UK; Bhashabandhan (in Bangla), Kolkata, Asia Writes-Featured Works, Philippines; The Legendary, USA; Underground Voices, USA; Bhashabandhan - Festival Edition, Kolkata; Scientific Indian; Weirdyear, Canada; The Statesman, India and elsewhere.
Books Reviewed
- Smoke and Ashes, Amitav Ghosh (Scroll)
- Interview with Amitav Ghosh about Smoke and Ashes and Pran Parbat (Trans: Sukanta Chaudhuri)
- Memory of Water, Emmi Itäranta (Scroll)
- Entering the Maze-Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick, Trans. Niladri R Chatterjee (Scroll)
- Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh (Scroll)
- The Living Mountain Island, A Fable for Our Times, Amitav Ghosh (Scroll)
- Unbound (New and Selected poems), Sanjukta Dasgupta, Edited by Jaydeep Sarangi and Sanghita Sanyal (Kitaab)
- The Sickle, Anita Agnihotri (Trans. Arunava Sinha) (New Indian Express)
- Bonduk Dwip, Amitav Ghosh (Translated by Arunava Sinha)
- Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health, Jyoti Pande Lavakare
- A Plate of White Marble, Bani Basu (Trans. Nandini Guha) (The Pioneer)
- The Rakta Queen, Shweta Taneja
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- Crow Dusk, Mark Floyer
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- We, Evegeny Zamyatin
- Solar, Ian McEwan
- The Rapture, Liz Jensen
- Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Allen Lane, Amitav Ghosh
- A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church
- The Girl with Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee
- Escape from Camp 14, Blaine Harden
- The Girl Who Ran Away in a Washing Machine, Anu Kumar
- Fairy Tales at Fifty, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Fourth Estate (HarperCollins) (Outlook)
- The Firebird, Saikat Majumdar, Hachette
- The Novel Cure, Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin with Indrajit Hazra, Roli Books (Outlook)
- The Gypsy Goddess, Meena Kandasamy, Atlantic Books
- Unexploded, Alison Macleod, Penguin (CNN-IBN, New 18)
- Alex, Pierre Lemaitre, Quercus (CNN-IBN, News 18)
- This Place, Amitabha Bagchi, Fourth Estate (Outlook)
- Alex, Pierre Lemaitre, Quercus (CNN-IBN, News 18)
- Green Islands of the Andamans and Nicobars, Protiva Gupta, (Translated by Meena Gupta), Writers Workshop( CNN-IBN, News18)
- The Last War, Sandipan Deb, Pan Macmillan (Outlook)
- Revolt of the Fish Eaters, Lopa Ghosh, HarperCollins India (CNN-IBN, News 18)
- It Takes a Murder, Anu Kumar, Hachette India(CNN-IBN, News18)
- The Final Question (Shesh Prosno), Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Tr. by Members of the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Edited by Arup Rudra and Sukanta Chaudhuri, Penguin & Ravi Dayal Publishers
- Nagaland, Jonathan Glancey, Faber & Faber (Asian Review of Books)
- The Dollmakers' Island, Anuradha Kumar, Gyaana Books (Times of India)
- Thunder Demons, Dipika Mukherjee, Gyaana Books (Yahoo News)
- The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Harper (Asian Review of Books)
- Serious Men, Manu Joseph, John Murray/HarperCollins (Asian Review of Books)
- Monkey-Man, Usha K R, Penguin
- The Crimson Throne, Sudhir Kakar, Penguin
- Evening is the Whole Day, Preeta Samarasan, HarperCollins Publishers
- Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan, Penguin India (Indian Literature journal)
- Collective Violence of a Provincial People, D Parthasarathy, Oxford University Press (The Telegraph)
- Birds of Prey, Wilbur Smith, Macmillan (The Telegraph)
- The Scent of Pepper, Kavery Nambisan, Penguin (The Telegraph)
- Violence and Truth, Denis Vidal, Oxford (The Telegraph)
- India is for Sale, Chitra Subramaniam, UBSPD (The Telegraph)
- The Fifth Flame: The Story of Safdar Hashmi, Qamar Azad Hashmi, Viking (The Telegraph)
- Begam Samru: Portrait in a Gilded Frame, John Lall, Roli (The Telegraph)
- Soap Opera
- Scarlet Palette
- Soap Bubbles, Signs and the Mutability of Markers
- Festival of Doubt - Artist Suprabhat Bhaduri
- Artist Naba Chakrabarty's works
- History, Stones and Moving Water (Art Catalogue)
- Artist Samindranath Majumdar Digs Beneath the Ocean
- Magical Land (The Statesman)
- Riversong (The Statesman)
- The Peasant and the Mystic - Uncharted Rajasthan (Tales of Asia)
- Petuk Atlas (in Bengali)
- The King and I (The Statesman)
- Bar-dhyaker Bar-anasi (in Bengali)
- The Man from Kalapaththar
- Art and Advertisements
- Your Words will See the Light (The Statesman)
- The Turn to the North
- A Million Necessary Words
- Dancing in the Dark
Activism and Environment Research publications
- Seeds of Deception (GMOs)
- Water, What are our Rights to it?
- UNDP Human Development Report, 1998
- Participatory Rural Development and Agro-Climatic Regional Planning
- Stocktaking of Progress towards Sustainability
- Southern Initiatives Journal of Sustainable Development
- Books from Bengal - A Rights catalogue
- Competition Regime and Consumer Welfare - Research paper
- Green Advertisements: Are they Telling the Truth
- Waiting for Delivery - A Civil Society Assessment of Progress towards Sustainable Consumption
- Ecofrig: Make the Right Choice Now
- Riding through Woe and Despair
- It is no Child's Play
- Look Before you Buy Cars
- Fasten you Seat Belts
Here is the Rajat Chaudhuri page at the Internet Speculative Fiction (ISFDB) database.