Tag: Amitav Ghosh
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Penguin to release Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’ in October
"For centuries, the dominant global powers have seen Earth -- its plants, its animals, and its non-white peoples -- as brute objects: mute, without agency, and available for the taking and killing."
September 3, 2021 -
Migration and movement
Gun Island is engrossing and almost reads like a whodunit, thus reiterating Ghosh's talent as a master story teller and a craftsman of words. It is amazing how he can thread his ideas about climate change, ecological disasters, crossborder migration and global movement of refugees in search of a better life elsewhere all together in his narrative... A review
July 21, 2019 -
My books address issues of dislocation, migration, movement: Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh became the first Indian writer in English to be conferred the Jnanpith Award by former Governor of West Bengal Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Wednesday.
June 14, 2019 -
Veteran actor, playwright Girish Karnad dies at 81; PM Modi, others express condolence
He is also credited for bringing in the age of modern Indian playwrighting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.
June 10, 2019 -
After filmmakers’ call to oust BJP, now 200 writers appeal to ‘vote out hate politics’
The statement has been signed by over 200 writers from across India with names such as Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Jerry Pinto, Romila Thapar and Girish Karnad as part of it.
April 2, 2019 -
Shekhar Kapur to helm TV series on Amitav Ghosh’s acclaimed Ibis Trilogy
Critically-acclaimed director Shekhar Kapur will direct a TV series based on Ibis Trilogy, a series of historical novels by Amitav Ghosh.
March 25, 2019 -
Amid smog, read Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Great Derangement’
When acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh was writing “The Great Derangement”, a work of nonfiction on the burning issue of climate change, many in literary circles asked him: “Why would you write about something so boring?” Some two years down the line, as the eyes burn and lungs choke in the “gas chamber” that residents of...
November 8, 2017 -
HarperCollins celebrates 25 years with 25 special editions
HarperCollins India has come out special editions of 25 of its popular books to celebrate its 25th anniversary of publishing. Among the books in the “Harper 25 Series” are Amitav Ghosh's “The Hungry Tide”, “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga, A P J Abdul Kalam's “Turning Points”, Jhumpa Lahiri's “Interpreter of Maladies”, “Fault Lines” by...
July 9, 2017