Poem: ‘How do you fight this monster?’ 
Amit Chaudhuri
Subscribers to the print edition can log in to view the entire article. For information about subscribing to the London Review of Books click here. This article is available for purchase online. Buy this article.
Amit Chaudhuri’s collection of essays, Clearing a Space, will be published by Peter Lang. He teaches contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.
Other articles by this contributor:
A Bottle of Ink, a Pen and a Blotter · R.K. Narayan
The View from Malabar Hill · My Bombay
In the Waiting-Room of History · ‘First in Europe, then elsewhere’
screen layout
tell a friend