Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is the author, most recently, of Immigrant, Montana: A Novel (Knopf, 2018). More about him at www.amitavakumar.com.

Art

Myth, Truth, and Lynchings

In India, with the rise of Narendra Modi’s right-wing party, it has become fairly routine to encounter lethal lies about minorities, especially Muslims and Dalits.