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’.

Amitav Ghosh

· Oct 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

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.

Amitav Ghosh

· Jun 26, 2021 · 08:30 am

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

· Jun 04, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

· Jun 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

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.

Amitav Ghosh

· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:00 am

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.

Amitav Ghosh

· Jul 12, 2016 · 08:30 am

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.

Amitav Ghosh

· Jun 24, 2015 · 08:40 pm

Arriving in Singapore: preparing for the Opium War in ‘Flood of Fire’

An excerpt from the final novel in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy.

Amitav Ghosh

· May 31, 2015 · 10:56 am