Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of a novel, The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, and is currently working on another, set in Calcutta during the Second World War. ‘Moving Parts’ is a series of dispatches from the irregular landscape of Indian working life. Parts of it appear in Granta 109, ‘Work’. ‘Tracing Puppa’ is part of a series of irregular essays about memory and growing up. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve.
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FictionFiction | The Online Edition
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Moving Parts: Shahid
Ruchir Joshi
Last year, Ruchir Joshi travelled around rural India for our ‘Work’ issue, documenting parts of...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Moving Parts: Guddu and Pintu
Ruchir Joshi
Guddu and Pintu are looking at a road that cuts through fields of sugar cane....
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Fiction | The Online Edition
Moving Parts: Hajiriya and Gajiriya
Ruchir Joshi
The day after my visit to the silica factories in Godhra, I am taken to...
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Moving Parts: Prajapati
Ruchir Joshi
Godhra, in the state of Gujarat, is an ugly, treeless, light-brown town. Driving into the...
FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition
Video: Tracing Puppa
Ruchir Joshi
‘My father encouraged me to lead the life I wanted to lead,’ explains writer and...