Chandra, Vikram
About Vikram Chandra
Reviews
Datta, Sudipta. "A Look Back at Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games." The Hindu, 23 Jul. 2018
Gleick, James. "A Unified Theory." New York Times Book Review, 24 Aug. 2014
Mishra, Pankaj. "Bombay Noir." The New Yorker, vol. 82, no. 45, 15 Jan. 2007
Mars-Jones, Adams. "Mean Streets, Economics Miracles." The Guardian, 20 Aug. 2006
Interviews
Chambers, Claire. "The Creation of an "Anti-Thriller": Vikram Chandra in Conversation." IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 2, no. 2, 2010
Chambers, Claire. "An Interview with Vikram Chandra." Wasafiri, vol. 23, no. 1, 2008
Mukherjee, Oindrila. "'Ruthless Patience': A Conversation with Vikram Chandra." A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts, vol. 20, no. 2, 2008
Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. "'Virtual Reality on Infinite Bandwidth': Vikram Chandra Interviewed by Maria-Sabina Alexandru." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 40, no. 2, 2005
Teverson, Andrew. "Vikram Chandra in Conversation." Wasafiri, vol. 37, 2002
Levasseur, Jennifer, and Kevin Rabalais. "Vikram Chandra: An Interview". Glimmer Train Stories, vol. 40, 2001
Critcism
Scott, Bede. "The Mysteries of Mumbai: Terrorism and Banality in Sacred Games." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 65, no. 2, 2019
Martin, Theodore. Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present, 2017
King, Bruce. "From the Sublime to the Extraordinary: Geek and Bhakti." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 51, no. 2, 2015
Daiya, Kavita. "Ecologies of Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Environment in Indian Fiction". A History of the Indian Novel in English, Anjaria (ed.), 2015
Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. Perfomance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English: Essays in English and American Language and Literature, 2015
Anwer, Megha. "Resisting the Event: Aesthetics of the Non-Event in the Contemporary South Asian Novel." ARIEL, vol. 45, no. 4, 2014
Shandilya, Krupa. "The Sacred and the Secular: Spirituality, Aesthetics, and Politics in Rudyard Kipling's Kim and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, 2014
Herbert, Caroline. "Spectrality and Secularism in Bombay Fiction: Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games". Textual Practice, vol. 26, no. 5, 2012
Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. "Provincialising London in Vikram Chandra's Novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain." India and the Diasporic Imagination, Christian and Misrahi-Barak (eds.), 2011
Ganapathy-Doré, Geetha. The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English, 2011
Chambers, Claire. "Postcolonial Noir: Vikram Chandra's 'Kama'." Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World, Pearson and Singer (eds.), 2009
McClintock, Scott. "Images for a Godless World: Violence after the Sacred in the Millennial Indian Novel." South Asian Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2009
Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. "Alternatives to the Novel Form: Oral Storytelling and Internet Patterns in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, 2008
Sharrad, Paul. Postcolonial Literary History and Indian English Fiction, 2008
Salvador, Dora Sales. "The Passing of Time and the Flowing of Self: In Conversation with Vikram Chandra." The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English, Essays on Ageing in Literature and Interviews with Vikram Chandra, James Halperin, Doris Lessing, Zadie Smith and Terri-ann White, Worsfold et al. (eds.), 2004
Videl Grau, Maria, et al. The Polemics of Ageing as Reflected in Literatures in English: Essays on Ageing in Literature and Interviews with Vikram Chandra, James Halperin,Doris Lessing, Zadie Smithand Terri-ann White, Worsfold et al. (eds.), 2004
Hawley, John C. "Can the Cosmopolitan Speak?: The Question of Indian Novelists' Authenticity". South Asian Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 2003
Sales Salvador, Dora. "Vikram Chandra's Constant Journey: Swallowing the World". Journal of English Studies, vol. 2, 2000
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code (2013)
Novels
Geek Sublime (2013)
Sacred Games (2006)
Love and Longing in Bombay: Stories (1997)
Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software." New Statesman, vol. 143, no. 5200, 7 Mar. 2014
"Frequent Flyer." Scrivere Incontrare: Migrazione, multiculturalitá, scrittura, Baraldi and Gnocchi (eds.), 2001
"The Cult of Authenticity: India's Cultural Commissars Worship "Indianness" Instead of Art (illustrated)." Boston Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2000
"Shakti." The New Yorker, vol. 70, no. 43, 1994-1995
"Dharma." Paris Review, 1994
Adaptations
Ridda, Maria. "Love and Longing for Mumbai: Vikram Chandra's Fiction and Bollywood Cinema." Tracing the New Indian Diaspora, Dwivedi (ed.), 2014
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Vikram Chandra's Interview at IIT Global Leadership Conference 2015. YouTube, 15 Aug. 2015
Vikram Chandra on what Writers Can Learn from the Movies. YouTube, 2013