Novelist Amitav Ghosh takes us into the heart of the 19th century opium trade, when the West fed addiction in China. Amitav Ghosh (amitavghosh.com) Go back almost two centuries, and the global drug ...

There exists a deeply fascinating relationship between crisis and literature – either crisis gives birth to great literature or great literature offers an astute and substantial representation of ...

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Amitav Ghosh, Author. Houghton Mifflin $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-618-32997-7 A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual ...

Cross Sino-Indian borders and join us for the launch of the inaugural Asian Arts & Ideas Forum, 'The Chindia Dialogues,' a festive four-day forum of dialogues, conversations and performances that ...

Amitav Ghosh's new book 'Wild Fictions' released in January 2025. With Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President looming, I ask Amitav Ghosh what he thinks of Trump's desire to acquire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's recent work focuses on the accelerating unravelling of the natural world and the moral legacy left ...

The new novel by award-winning Indian author Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island, uses climate change as a backdrop. He tells DW about the different perceptions of the climate crisis in the East and West. When ...

Author Amitav Ghosh speaking in New Delhi on June 15, 2008. (Danish Ismail / Reuters) Midway through our meeting at a sidewalk table of Brooklyn Public House in the Fort Greene neighborhood of ...

Amitav Ghosh, whose book “Gun Island” is set in an ecologically unstable world, wants literature to explore the environment as much as it does other crises. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta How do you ...

Amitav Ghosh is the author of many other works of nonfiction and fiction, including the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) River of ...