In his latest book, Amitav Ghosh does not merely tell stories ... In Wild Fictions, you write of stories as living, ecological entities, beings rather than metaphors. Was this a gradual insight ...

There’s no pretence of superiority in Amitav Ghosh’s intellectual world. Instead, he invites us into a circle of companionship, where reading is not a solitary act but a shared journey. He is as ...

I read these waterway scenes from Amitav Ghosh’s fantastic historical novel ... There are more people living in the city floating bustees than in all of Calcutta... their boats are moored ...

or in New Earth Theatre’s work-in-progress based on Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse); or that show us the path to an alternative future (Beth Flintoff’s The World We Made). Theatres are ...

While speaking at a lecture in Montreal, Canada, sometime during the 1990s, author Amitav Ghosh traced the literary roots that ... any difficulty other than the fact that you can’t make a living with ...

In Wild Fictions, Amitav Ghosh blends personal narratives with historical analysis to expose the global forces driving ...

In early 1980, Amitav Ghosh, a 24-year-old student of social anthropology at the University of Oxford, arrived in Egypt on a research trip. He journeyed to a small rural village where his ...

Published at last in 1977 and reissued in 2011 with an introduction by the British nature writer Robert Macfarlane, “The Living Mountain” has returned in paperback with an afterword by the ...

Amitav Ghosh's merits are too many to tabulate, but it will not be impetuous to say that what he does best is write a story.