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The glass palace - by Amitav Ghosh

pujathakur wrote 6 days ago: (pic from: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/000651409X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) Finished reading … more →

Tags: Books, Me, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide

Books to Read

gdevi wrote 3 weeks ago: Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Aurum Press. A … more →

Tags: Books, suze rotolo, David Carr

Immigration patterns in smaller Canadian cities: open blog4 comments

reneethewriter wrote 1 month ago: Hi folks, Diversity Matters is now open for discussion while i’m away on vacation, July 25-Aug … more →

Tags: Diversity Matters, Immigration, Literature, obama, Berlin, Rushdie, Edward Said, haruki murakami

What's in a name? What's in a set of initials?36 comments

churumuri wrote 1 month ago: RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: I don’t know Usha K.R.. I have never met Usha K.R.. I … more →

Tags: People, Issues and Ideas, Literati, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Ramachandra Guha, M.N. Srinivas, Ashis Nandy

Oriental Travel Accounts2 comments

raahihoonmain wrote 2 months ago: Travel writing is popularly perceived to be a Western monopoly. National Geographic Travelers’ lis … more →

Tags: African and Asian travel writing, Michael Ondaatje, oriental travel, pico iyer, Tabish Khair, Travel, Travel Stories, Travel Writing

'Opium financed British rule in India'1 comment

Webmaster wrote 2 months ago: BBC, June 19, 2008 Leading Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s critically acclaimed new novel Sea of … more →

'Imperialism is knocking on India's doors again'12 comments

churumuri wrote 2 months ago: Amitav Ghosh, author of the newly released Sea of Poppies, in an interview with Amrita Tripathi of … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Literati, Imperialism, CNN-IBN, George W. Bush, churumuri, Sea of Poppies

Confessions of a Poppy writer

asianwindow wrote 3 months ago: In Hindustan Times, Amitav Ghosh goes behind the curtains of his latest novel, The Sea of Poppies, a … more →

Tags: Books, Sea of Poppies

Lascars, sepoys and nautch girls

asianwindow wrote 3 months ago: In The Guardian, James Buchan reviews Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh: This terrific novel, the firs … more →

Tags: Books, Sea of Poppies

Voices from the past

Rrishi Raote wrote 3 months ago: Less story, more memory: new fiction looks back to re-imagine the past Memory is in. It’s the … more →

Tags: Books, Charles Simic, Doris Lessing, Hanif Kureishi, Lists, Thomas Keneally, Urdu

Death comes ashore

asianwindow wrote 3 months ago: Amitav Ghosh on cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, in the New York Times THE word “cyclone” was coin … more →

Tags: Climate, Kolkata, Cyclone, Henry Piddington, storm surge, cyclone Nargis

Part III -- The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997; Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, Vintage Publishers, 1998, 576 Pages

zireaux wrote 6 months ago: Part III   Mind you, ELECTRA (not to be confused with Freud’s misinterpretation of the goddess), … more →

Tags: book, Literature, Indian, writing, English, Rushdie, India, Fiction, Arundhuti Roy

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

anocturne wrote 6 months ago: Ganga flows, tamed by Shiva’s locks, across northen India. Where Shiva’s jata ends, Gan … more →

Tags: Current Affairs, Diaspora, India, India / Indian, Literary Fiction, Southeast Asia, World

Amitav Ghosh's eye witness account of killing of Sikhs in Delhi in 19843 comments

sikhcentre wrote 6 months ago: The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi* Amitav Ghosh [*Reproduced from The New Yorker, July 17, 1995] Nowhere else … more →

Tags: Contemporary History, 1984, anti sikh riots, Indira Gandhi, Khalsa, New Delhi, punjab, sikh, Sikhi

The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh

anocturne wrote 7 months ago: Let’s admit that the railroad incident was the creepiest thing I ever read. The lumps of clay … more →

Tags: Action / Thriller, India / Indian, Mystery, Science, SF, Southeast Asia, Supernatural, Suspense

Elephants a-piling teak

denkyem wrote 9 months ago: A friend - Michael Richards - has recommended Amitav Ghosh’s fourth novel “The Glass Pal … more →

Tags: forest fiction, Burma

Folly in the Sundarbans?

Webmaster wrote 10 months ago: Amitav Ghosh, Date of Publication: November 2004. In 2003 the business group, Sahara India Pariwar … more →

Tags: Essay

The Hungry Tide: A Review2 comments

asuph wrote 11 months ago: Well, it’s a Amitav Ghosh book, and I’m an unabashed fan, so I’ll drop the prete … more →

Tags: Books, Review, iwe, Literature, The Hungry Tide

Book Review- The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh1 comment

Arnav wrote 11 months ago: I am really having a ball reading Indian authors of late. But I had contemplated a lot before bu … more →

Tags: Reviews, Book Review, Indian Authors, Modern Fiction, The Hungry Tide, Sundarbans


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