Berkeley English Faculty

Vikram Chandra

Teaching Professor

Wheeler Hall, Room 451
On sabbatical fall 2022.
vikramchandra@berkeley.edu

Specialties

Creative Writing

Professional Statement

Writer, teacher. Avid amateur student of pre-modern Indian literature, aesthetics, philosophy, Sanskrit, languages, and history. Programmer.

Books

Sacred Games (Netflix Series)

“By setting a high bar Sacred Games is more than phenomenal TV, it’s a shape-shifter… Astutely crafted, Sacred Games urges a socio-political self-examination that extends beyond the entertainment value of a show like Narcos, nearing the introspectiv....(read more)

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Geek Sublime

Vikram Chandra is a wonderful novelist and apparently knows his way around an algorithm, too. His new book is an unexpected tour de force, different from anything he has done before… its ambition: to look deeply, and with great subtlety, into the con....(read more)

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Sacred Games: A Novel

This is a moment worth marking. It’s a landmark in the history of Indian English literature. Decades from now, we’ll be looking back at the roster of great contemporary novels, and the title Sacred Games will trip off our tongues blithely and reveren....(read more)

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English Department Classes

spring, 2022
143A/2	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops

fall, 2021
143A/1	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops
145/1	Writing Technology: Utopian Futures	Creative Writing Lecture Courses
	145/102 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.
	145/104 -- discussion section	No instructor assigned yet.

spring, 2021
143A/1	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops
180H/1	The Short Story	Special Topics

fall, 2020
143A/3	Short Fiction	Creative Writing Workshops
145/1	Writing Technology: Utopian Futures	British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature World Literature Creative Writing Lecture Courses
	145/101 -- discussion section	Muhammad, Ismail
	145/102 -- discussion section	Muhammad, Ismail
	145/103 -- discussion section	Trevino, Jason Benjamin
	145/104 -- discussion section	Trevino, Jason Benjamin