?Pound for pound, Amitava\n Kumar is one of the best nonfiction writers of his generation?? ?Siddharth\n Chowdhury ?Amitava Kumar is a sensitive, probing, erudite writer, always\n ready to question others and himself.? ?Edmund White? When Lord Macaulay introduced English as\n the instrument of education in India, he also bequeathed to us a legacy of\n language-use that is often stiff and bureaucratic. This awkwardness plagues\n academic, journalistic, legal, even creative writing in India.? You fail as a writer if your writing is not\n concrete, if it is vague and abstract, and your reader is unable to see what\n you mean. Writing Badly is Easy is a style guide for those who want to write\n well. It presents advice given by award-winning creative writers?including\n Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan, Suketu Mehta, Marilynne Robinson, George\n Saunders and Colson Whitehead?and noted thinkers like Alain de Botton, Andrew\n Ross, Anna Tsing, Kathleen Stewart and Rob Nixon, as well as numerous others.\n Amitava Kumar?s own essays on writing, including his collaboration with Teju\n Cole, demonstrate the importance of blurring the line between critical and\n creative writing. A manifesto for writing that is exuberant, imaginative and\n playful, Writing Badly is Easy will change the way you think about reading\n and writing, and reveal the pleasures to be had in the inventive use of\n language.