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Amitav Ghosh
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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?’
Amitav Ghosh
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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.
Amitav Ghosh
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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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Opinion: What Nidhi Razdan phishing case and Arnab Goswami chats tell us about Indian media today
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‘Please don’t follow me now’: Actor Rhea Chakraborty asks paparazzi when spotted in Mumbai
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Saba Naqvi: Does ‘Mirzapur’ defame UP? If you’d met the dons I have, you’d know how bad it really is
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Farmers at Singhu Border capture man allegedly sent to kill protest leaders
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‘Threat to democracy if judiciary, CBI, ED do not act independently,’ says Bombay HC
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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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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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Eco India, Episode 96: Is environmentally-friendly food-for-all still a distant dream?
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Watch: The arduous journey of a lorry driver struggling with endless delays due to Brexit
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Watch: Hilarious video of Soviet soldiers supposedly dancing to Nirvana's ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
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‘You should check your phone’: Funny chat between man and his ‘brain’ keeping him awake all night
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Concert in the Dark: Watch artistes perform blindfolded in fundraiser for the visually challenged