A session with Sampurna Chattarji on the power of laughter as an anarchic, complex and subversive force that pulls the ‘serious rug’ from under our feet, turns logic on its head, and insists on indirection as the means to arrival.
About Sampurna Chattarji
Sampurna Chattarji is a writer, translator, editor and teacher. Her twenty-one books include Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins 2015, 2020), written during her residency at the University of Kent, Canterbury; Dirty Love (Penguin 2013), her short story collection about Bombay/Mumbai; Future Library (Red Hen Press USA, 2022), an anthology of contemporary Indian writing; and Unmappable Moves (Poetrywala, 2023). Her translation of Sukumar Ray’s poetry and prose Wordygurdyboom! is a Puffin Classic and The Book of MN and Me her creative retelling of the stories of Mulla Nasruddin. She lurks on Instagram as
@ShampooChats.