Amandeep Sandhu

Rourkela/India — Literature, Solitude fellow 2013–2015

Amandeep Singh Sandhu was born in Rourkela, India, in 1973. He studied English literature at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is currently taking time off from his third novel The Memory Maker to travel and write about India Punjab in the current times – 25 years after the separatist guns fell silent. Besides novels, he writes reviews in The Hindu, Asian Age, The Indian Express, Businessworld, and political commentary and reportage on Punjab in Tehelka, Caravan Magazine, and Scroll.in.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Amandeep Sandhu:

Narrative Anatomy #3

Illness narratives. First stop: Biographical Literature Works

By Cristina Vidruțiu

Homing Pigeons

by Amandeep Sandhu

Literature

A Memory Maker

by Marte Kräher

»If you do something with your heart, some good will come out.« –Indian writer Amandeep Sandhu in a portrait by Marte Kräher.

Studio Solitude

Theater of the Mind

by Amandeep Sandhu

»Don’t look at my works to find Cuba.« – Cuban painter Yorjander Capetillo Hernández in a portrait by Amandeep Sandhu.

Poetry Series

Emoemoji : Elisa

»Amandeep Singh Sandhu made tamarind rasam for one of the house pot luck dinners and Elisa Calosi expounded on the soup’s transcendental properties.«

Solitude Atlas

Rusty Smoke

by Amandeep Singh Sandhu

The most enduring image I have of the town I was born in is of four metallic giants in padma asan, lotus position, exhaling rusty breath into the sky. – Rourkela/India