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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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Badminton, Thailand Open Super 500, as it happened: Sindhu defeats world No 1 Yamaguchi to reach SF
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Opinion: Why is Modi the only prime minister who is haunted by Nehru’s ghost?
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‘The bell-eared demon’: When Swami Vivekananda warned how worship could become fanaticism
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2019 Hyderabad shooting: Police deliberately fired upon accused, says SC inquiry panel report
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‘12th Man’ review: Oversharing between friends is overrated (it can lead to murder)
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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: Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy is the protagonist of a new comic book
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Caught on camera: Panic at metro station in Santiago, Chile, after explosion due to electrical fault
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Watch: Rajasthan Royals cricketers do the hook step to a song from the movie ‘Phir Hera Pheri’
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Watch: Dust storms engulf cities, cut down visibility in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
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Watch: Actor Aamir Khan asks former cricket coach Ravi Shastri to recommend him for a cricket team
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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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