The Yellow Book: A Traveller's Diary

After the first wave of Covid had passed, the lockdown was lifted and travel resumed in earnest, Amitava Kumar found himself in London with a group of American students on a study tour-in the midst of the Omicron wave. A year later, he was in India, in his native Motihari among other places.

Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine and Rushdie was assaulted with a knife in upstate New York. Amitava kept a journal-to record the times he was living through and how he would like to remember them. In these pages, through words and drawings, he reveals how a writer observes the world around us and the world inside us. 

The Yellow Book shows us how we can put together not just a journal or a book, but how we assemble a life, and in our troubled times, why we must plant memories and continue to believe in spring.