Amit Chaudhuri admits himself that he is inspired by the lives around him. He tells to Fernando Galvan about it as- “I fell in some ways almost closer to Jibanand Das but that doesn’t mean that I don’t think Tagore a great writer and poet. But I think Rays films meant a lot to me and later on the writer Bibhuti Bhusan Bandhyopadhyay from whose novels Ray created his first film Pather Panchali....it’s a very modernist novel in a sense.” The themes and techniques used by the writer in his novels are a true embodiment of his personal experiences like the idea of his first novel was also a result of one of the incidents of his life. Amit Chaudhuri, before writing ASASA, had read a comment about the novel of William Golding named Lord of the Flies'. In that comment, there was the criticism about the explanatory opening sequence of the beginning with the boy arriving at the island. Chaudhuri grasped the idea from their comment and weaves his novel with explanatory sequence from the starting of the novel. In it, he gave the details about the life in Bombay and starts with arrival of the boy in Calcutta. 'Afternoon Raag', the second novel of the writer too had the same story. In this novel, Chaudhuri reveals his personal experiences at Oxford, or we may say that it would not have existed if Amit had no connection with the foreign air. The loose structure of the novel shows the immature thinking of the novelist at that time. So, once again it becomes quite apparent that his life has a major contribution in the creation of such wonderful masterpiece of English literature.