Chittajit Mitra

Chittajit Mitra has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in January 2023. The social media accounts linked to from Chittajit Mitra are: • Instagram • LinkedIn • Email Besides social media accounts, cjmitra has populated their site with: • Interview: Pawan Dhall on Why India’s Queer Movement Must Focus on Anti-Discrimination and Chosen Families - Frontline • Interview: Julia Quinn on Bridgerton and life after global success - The Hindu • Report: Bazm-e-Virasat - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Chapal Rani by Sandip Roy - Business Standard • Report: Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival 2026 - Hindustan Times • Interview: Ashok Ferrey on his new novel Hot Butter Cuttlefish - The Hindu • Op-Ed: Undoing hard-won transgender rights - National Herald • Book Review: Why I Killed My Husband by Anita Nair - TNIE • Interview: Suvir Saran: “Loss rearranges the furniture of the soul” - Hindustan Times • Report: The Shillong Literary Festival - Hindustan Times • Report: Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Whither Human Rights in India - Business Standard • Report: Ghazipur Literature Festival - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Courtesans Don't Read Newspaper by Anil Yadav, translated by Vaibhav Sharma - Deccan Hera • Book review: Wonder Tales For A Warming Planet by Rajat Chaudhuri - TNIE • Op-Ed: When the State Tightens Its Grip on Literature: The Sahitya Akademi Controversy - The AIDEM • HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2025 | Hindustan Times • Interview: Malala Yousafzai “For me, there was no roadmap” - Hindustan Times • Book review: Forbidden Desire by Rajasekaran - Telegraph • Book Review: Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? edited by Rakhshanda Jalil - The Hindu • Book Review: Mujib's Blunders by Manash Ghosh - TNIE • Interview: Ajeet Cour “The Amrita Pritam sketch was difficult to write” - Hindustan Times • Book review: Nautch Boy by Manish Gaekwad - Telegraph • Book Review: The Cell and the Soul by Anand Teltumbde - Business Standard • Interview: Madhu Raghavendra “Liberate poetry from the definition of poetry itself” - The Chakkar • Book Review: Unsilenced by Seema Azad, translated by Shailza Sharma - Business Standard • Participated As A Delegate at Sahitya Akademi's International Lit Fest Unmesha • Interview: Sunny Singh “We can’t move towards justice if we can’t recognise injustice” - Hindustan Times • Interview: Aatish Taseer ‘I had an unusual parenting. My father was someone I discovered’ - Hindustan Times • Book review: Water Days by Sundar Sarukkai - The Telegraph • Book Review: Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple - Business Standard • Book Review: Letters from Gaza edited by Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer - TNIE • Translated "The Big Book of All Things Queer" by Pride Across the Bridge into Hindi • Interview: GN Devy- “There is a forest of languages growing around us” - Hindustan Times • Op-Ed: Repoliticising the Indian Queer Community - The AIDEM • Book Review: Spies, Lies and Allies by Kavitha Rao • Book review: Who Is Equal by Saurabh Kirpal - TNIE • Book Review: The Undying Light by Gopalkrishna Gandhi - Business Standard • Book Review: Blackened by Vinoy Thomas, translated by Nandakumar K. - TNIE • Interview: Amol Palekar- “The middle ground is shrinking” - Hindustan Times • Report: Arunachal Literature Festival - Hindustan Times • Report: Kokrajhar Literature Festival - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Nalanda by Abhay K. - Business Standard • Book Review: The Gujaratis by Salil Tripathi - The Telegraph • Interview: Rohin Bhatt - ‘There are multiple demands from within the queer community’ - The Hindu • Report: The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2025 - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Literature Against Fundamentalism - The Federal • Report: Koshala Literature Festival - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Tripping Down the Ganga by Siddharth Kapila - Business Standard • A reader compiled a list of 103 Indian language books translated into English and published in 2024 • HT reviewer Chittajit Mitra picks his favourite read of 2024 • Book Review: In Pursuit of Freedom by Pradeep Damodaran - The Telegraph • Book Review: Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele - Hindustan Times • Book Review: A Slight Angle by Ruth Vanita - Hindustan Times • Book Review : Lal Chowk by Rohin Kumar, translated by Dharmesh Chaubey - Business Standard • Book Review : Small Rain by Garth Greenwell - TNIE • Book Review : The Menstrual Coupé by Shahina K Rafiq, translated by Priya K. Nair - Frontline • Interview: Anand Teltumbde – “Ambedkar challenged Gandhi’s Mahatmahood” - Hindustan Times • Book Review : Biopeculiar by Gigi Ganguly - Deccan Herald • Book Review: From the King's Table to Street Food by Pushpesh Pant - TNIE • Book Review: The Palestinian Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein - Business Standard • Book Review: The Yellow Sparrow by Santa Khurai - Indian Express • Interview: Hoshang Merchant – “Politics is a passing show, while humanity endures” - Hindustan Times • Book Review: The Other Olympians by Michael Waters - The Telegraph • Interview: Vaibhav Sharma - “Every translator should really like what they’re translating” - Hindustan Times • Interview: Saurabh Kirpal - ‘If I want equality, I will have to fight for it’ - The Hindu • Book Review: A Bouquet of Dead Flowers by Swadesh Deepak, translated by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, Nirupama Dutt & Sukant Deepak - TNIE • Book Review: A Portrait of Love by Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, translated by Gautam Chaubey - Hindustan Times • Book Review: The Company of Violent Men by Siddharthya Roy- The Federal • Book Review: India’s Forgotten Country by Bela Bhatia - The Telegraph • Book Review: The Women Who Would Not Die by Uddipana Goswami - TNIE • Book Review: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? by Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia - Business Standard • Interview: Aruna Roy – “The demonising of activists is unfortunate for the nation” - Hindustan Times • Book Review: The Jannayak Karpoori Thakur by Santosh Singh & Aditya Anmol - TNIE • Book Review: The Final Farewell by Minakshi Dewan - Doing Sociology • Interview: Sourav Roy - “There are deep problems despite the ‘Gitanjali Shree Effect’” Hindustan Times • Book Review: Suryavamshi by Abanindranath Tagore, translated by Sandipan Deb - TNIE • Article: Mark Gevisser recommends Queer literature from around the world - The Hindu • Interview: Kailash Satyarthi - “We need to globalise compassion” - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Manohar Kahani by Raghu Srinivasan - TNIE • Book Review: The Rumbling Earth by C.P. Rajendran & Kusala Rajendran - Business Standard • Report: Banaras Literature Festival 2024 - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Secularism: How India Reshaped the Idea by Nalini Rajan - Outlook • Book Review: Ma is Scared and Other Stories by Anjali Kajal, translated by Kavita Bhanot - The Federal • Interview: Daisy Rockwell - "I’m not worried about AI" - TNIE • Book Review: Roadwalker by Dilip D'Souza - The Telegraph • Article: With Her Fast Unto Death, a Manipuri Transwoman’s Quest for Peace - Quint • Book Review: The Idea of India by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Romila Thapar - The Federal • Book Review: Maya Nagari edited by Shanta Gokhale & Jerry Pinto - TNIE • Book Review: Muslim Politics in India by Hamid Dalwai, translated by Dilip Chitre - Frontline • Report: Kolkata People’s Film Festival - Hindustan Times • Book Review: Being Muslim in Hindu India by Ziya Us Salam - Business Standard • Interview: Ranjana Kaul – “We still have to work a lot on issues of caste and patriarchy” - Hindustan Times • Book Review: H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit - The Telegraph • Interview: Santa Khurai, author, The Yellow Sparrow - “Telling these stories is a way to save the lives of many like me” - Hindustan Times • Book Review: City on Fire by Zeyad Masroor Khan - Deccan Herald • Book Review: Bandi Jeevan by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, translated by Maneesha Taneja - Hindustan Times • Book Review: The Speaking Window by Sandeep Dutt, Faisal Hayat & Ritika - The Federal • This reader compiled a list of 117 Indian books in English translation published in 2023 - Scroll • Won the Rainbow Literature Award 2023 in the Op-Ed category • Book Review: Life Was Here Somewhere by Ajeet Cour, translated from Punjabi - The New Indian Express • Book Review: The Assamese by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty - The Federal • Book Review: The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told selected & edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri - Open The Magazine • Book Review: ‘Why Didn’t You Come Sooner’ by Kailash Satyarthi– Kunzum • Book Review: Bantering with Bandits by Annie Zaidi - The New Indian Express • A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translators • Book Review: Over the Rainbow by Aditya Tiwari - Hindustan Times • Book review: India’s Experiment with Democracy by S.Y. Quraishi - The Federal • Book Review: Won’t You Stay, Radhika? by Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell - The Hindu • Book Review: On the Edge edited and translated by Ruth Vanita - Hindustan Times • Same-sex marriage: Give us equality, not ‘empathy’ - National Herald • Feature: Aditya Tiwari’s Queer India Chronicles - Outlook • Op-Ed: We will get past the marriage equality hiccup and fight on - Indian Express • Book Review: Didi by Nirupama Devi, translated by Alo Shome - The New Indian Express • Book Review: Dudiya by Vishwas Patil, translated by Nadeem Khan - Scroll • Book Review: Yaari, An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx - Gaylaxy Magazine • Book Review: Unsealed Covers: How Indian courts have betrayed its people - The Federal • Book Review: Peacemakers - Outlook • Report: Unmesha Festival 2023 - HT • Translation: HAPPY TOGETHER - Law & Policy Concerns of LGBTQI Persons & Relationships in India • Book Review: A Rebellious Cobbler - Deccan Herald • Movie Review: Garmi: A scorching drama on Indian Campus Politics — The Chakkar • Interview: Harsh Mander - aims to question the collective memory of the populace and demand accountability from the state. - The Hindu • Interview: Vishes Kothari - “Translation does become an act of activism” - HT • Book Review: Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and a State That Failed Its People - Business Standard • Book Review: "Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India" - Gaylaxy Magazine • Interview: Not much has changed for queer people in smaller cities and villages after the Navtej judgment: Aditya Tiwari - The Hindu • Book Review: Courting Hindustan by Madhur Gupta - The Federal • An Evening Remembering Baba Saheb - Gaysi • Book review: Taranath Tantrik by Bibhutibhushan translated by Devalina Mookerjee - Scroll • Op-Ed: Cuba’s Family Code is a Guiding Light for Queer Activism - Midnight Sun • Report: International Kolkata Book Fair 2023: HT • Queering Language: Locating queerness in Hindi literature through the ages • A reader compiled this thread of 91 books from India translated into English and published in 2022 • Essay: Queering translation: Locating queerness in Indian languages • Literary Hoomans and their Best Friends — The Chakkar • Social Ketchup Magazine Pride 2021 • I'm a gay man in India and I finally feel safe