Ruchir Joshi

Ruchir Joshi is a filmmaker and writer. He was born in Calcutta and now lives in Delhi. His novel The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (Flamingo, 2001) is set in a future India at war with a Pak-Saudi alliance.

Moving Parts part 3: Guddu and Pintu

In this third excerpt from the Moving Parts series Ruchir travels to the town of Khhair with cousins Guddu and Pintu, where Ruchir learns about the systematized corruption involved in the Indian construction business.

By Ruchir Joshi

/ 29 Mar 2010

Moving Parts part 2: Hajiriya and Gajiriya

In this second excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits two brothers, Hajiriya and Gajiriya, who have contracted the terminal disease Silicosis as a result of their work at the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra.

By Ruchir Joshi

/ 22 Mar 2010

Moving Parts: Prajapati

In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra where many local workers claim that hazardous working conditions are resulting in serious health problems

By Ruchir Joshi

/ 15 Mar 2010

The autumn of the fig leaf

Indian perspectives on the war in Iraq Aranyani Bhargava Hoping For Hope, Anuradha M. Chenoy Why Women oppose war, Tani Bhargava Indias new anti-Americanism, Ruchir Joshi Be very afraid

By Ruchir Joshi

/ 22 Apr 2003