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Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh’s new book uses the trajectory of a spice to chart colonial violence against the planet
An excerpt from Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’.
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Amitav Ghosh on Priya Satia’s books: ‘History has given us tools for upending dominant narratives’
Priya Satia’s books ‘Time’s Monster’ and ‘Empire of Guns’ are helping us reexamine the discipline of History.
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How Amitav Ghosh imagined the impact of a cyclone hitting Mumbai in his book ‘The Great Derangement’
‘What might happen if a Category 4 or 5 storm, with 240 kmph or higher wind speeds, were to run directly into Mumbai?’
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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‘My son lost his job during demonetisation but at least it removed black money’
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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Amitav Ghosh’s new novel leads in with a legend about the ‘Gun Merchant’, plunging into a mystery
In ‘Gun Island’, some of the characters and the setting of Ghosh’s earlier novel, ‘The Hungry Tide’, reappear.
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The ghosts of Mrs Gandhi: Amitav Ghosh looks back at the 1984 massacre of Sikhs
‘I witnessed the risks that perfectly ordinary people were willing to take for one another,’ the author wrote in this essay from 1995.
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First read: Amitav Ghosh asks why novelists don’t write about climate change
In 1978, Ghosh was caught in a freak tornado in New Delhi. He has never managed to include the event in his fiction.
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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Why I opposed India's nuclear tests: journalist Praful Bidwai interviewed by Amitav Ghosh
The well-known commentator and anti-nuclear activist died in Amsterdam on Tuesday night.
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Arriving in Singapore: preparing for the Opium War in ‘Flood of Fire’
An excerpt from the final novel in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy.
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