Climate change has deep historical roots. Amitav Ghosh explores how capitalism and colonialism fit

Julia Taylor, The Conversation Imraan Valodia, The Conversation

· Sep 15, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Writer Neel Mukherjee reflects on Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Glass Palace’ as a new edition is released

Neel Mukherjee

· May 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Author Amitav Ghosh wins Erasmus Prize for writings on climate crisis

Scroll Staff

· Mar 08, 2024 · 10:00 am

‘Smoke and Ashes’: Amitav Ghosh’s story of how opium has contributed to creating today’s world

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Aug 05, 2023 · 07:30 am

A new book about four authors shows how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Charne Lavery, The Conversation

· Jun 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘The Living Mountain’: Amitav Ghosh tells us stories about ourselves we can no longer ignore

Rajat Chaudhuri

· May 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

Podcast: Author Amitav Ghosh on the perils of a super cyclone’s direct hit on Mumbai

Raghu Karnad

· Dec 02, 2021 · 11:30 am

‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’: Amitav Ghosh links the colonial desire for profit to neoliberal gluttony

Michiel Baas

· Nov 14, 2021 · 08:30 am

Amitav Ghosh’s new book uses the trajectory of a spice to chart colonial violence against the planet

Amitav Ghosh

· Oct 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

Swearing like sailors: What the profanities of lascars can teach today’s divided world

Karunya C Banerjee

· Feb 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

Science fiction and pandemics have an unusual link: the focus on a shared humanity

Mayurika Chakravorty, The Conversation

· Jul 21, 2020 · 06:30 pm

The Art of Solitude: Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’ is a home away from home

Anu Kumar

· Mar 28, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Debate: Is India’s membership of the Commonwealth a colonial relic that should be discarded?

Scroll Staff

· Sep 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Can literature save the planet? Reading ‘Gun Island’ during an impending climate crisis

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Aug 18, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘My book is not an apocalyptic book at all. I guess I’m leaving hope as a possibility’: Amitav Ghosh

Harsimran Gill

· Jun 17, 2019 · 07:30 am

Amitav Ghosh’s new novel leads in with a legend about the ‘Gun Merchant’, plunging into a mystery

Amitav Ghosh

· Jun 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

Shekhar Kapur to direct series based on Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Ibis’ trilogy

Scroll Staff

· Mar 25, 2019 · 07:17 pm

Amitav Ghosh’s Jnanpith award is a reminder of his uncompromisingly political writing

Saloni Sharma

· Dec 23, 2018 · 08:30 am

Jnanpith winner Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Shadow Lines’ showed how to take the vernacular into English

Saikat Majumdar

· Dec 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

The ghosts of Mrs Gandhi: Amitav Ghosh looks back at the 1984 massacre of Sikhs

Amitav Ghosh

· Dec 20, 2018 · 08:00 am