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11 hours ago · An honorary doctorate has been awarded to author Amitav Ghosh by the University of Siena in Tuscany – which was founded in 1240 and is the oldest university in Italy.The author took to Instagram ...
19 hours ago · Author Amitav Ghosh has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Siena in Tuscany in Italy. It is the oldest university of Italy and was established in 1240. The author of The Circle of Reason , The Calcutta Chromosome , Flood of Fire and several other unputdownable reads shared the news of a new feather on his hat with glimpses of the ceremony on Instagram.
3 days ago · For nearly twenty years Amitav Ghosh has been writing about opium and the opium trade, first in his fictional Ibis trilogy, and now in nonfiction with Smoke & Ashes.
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2 days ago · Ghosh, like many of his colleagues, called for a vote for a different IndiaAnd it worked in part: the nationalist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, won the election and was able to begin his third term, but his majority was weakened. Ghoshrelieved, now speaks of the “danger averted” by his country, but he does so with a bittersweet aftertaste.
1 day ago · In mainstream fiction, though, climate change took a long time to appear. In 2016, the novelist Amitav Ghosh observed in his book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable that “it is a striking fact that when novelists do choose to write about climate change, it is almost always outside of fiction.”
19 hours ago · I had noticed that some books have pages of them, some on the front cover, others have none. As with most things, people in the publishing and reading world took two extreme views. Some said, “Don’t bother, no one picks up a book because Amitav Ghosh recommends it.” The others said, “I will definitely buy a book if Amitav Ghosh ...
17 hours ago · Aung San Suu Kyi: The plot of George Orwell’s classic novel ‘Burmese Days’ is also built upon the canvas of colonial Burma. It is an excellent narrative set in the days of British Empire ruling in Burma. Our very own Amitav Ghosh is much to be treasured for his poignant novel ‘The Glass Palace’ based in Myanmar.
