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.
Posts by Ruchir Joshi
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20 January 2010
Moving Parts: Guddu and Pintu
The last instalment from Ruchir Joshi’s exploration of work in rural India
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14 January 2010
Moving Parts: Hajiriya and Gajiriya
Ruchir Joshi’s journey continues, as he meets two victims of silicosis
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16 December 2008
Video: Tracing Puppa
Ruchir Joshi discusses his father, his writing and the ‘energy of book-crazed Calcutta’