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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thefederal.com | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
As a novelist, history is, for me, one of the limiting conditions of the imagination. What I mean by this is that history is of interest to me in that it creates unique predicaments for human beings — characters, in other words — but it cannot carry a novel on its own; only characters can: in this, a historical novel is no different from any other kind of fiction.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
In 1999, soon after moving to the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, my wife and I were befriended by Frank and Nicole De Martini, a couple whose lives were closely twinned with the towers of the World Trade Center. Both Frank and Nicole are architects. As construction manager of the World Trade Center, Frank’s offices were on the 88th floor of Tower 1. Nicole is an employee of the engineering firm that built the World Trade Center, Leslie E Robertson Associates.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and the prospect of a nuclear war closer than it has ever been, I couldn’t bring myself to think about what I was going to say today until a couple of weeks ago; such are the uncertainties of our times that I wondered whether it would even be possible to hold this ceremony as scheduled.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
For the best experience, open m.thewire.in on your mobile browser or Download our App. Next We need your support. Know More world 'Driving the ascendancy of these neo-fascist movements is a myth of victimhood, in which affluent countries are seen as the aggrieved parties, resisting invasions by black and brown foreigners.' Amitav Ghosh, receiving the Erasmus Prize, 2024.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
As the world’s biggest democracy, India could be an inspiring example of how a multiethnic, multilingual country with many different religions can come together to form a vibrant state with equality enshrined in its constitution. But all that is in danger of going down the drain, as the country transforms into a brutally exclusionary Hindu-supremacist state under the leadership of Narendra Modi, says Kapil Komireddi, essayist and author of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
rashmee.com | Jessie Greengrass |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Rashmee Roshan Lall
COP29, the UN conference on climate change, which is arguably the world’s most important climate negotiation event, begins roughly a week after the election of climate sceptic Donald Trump. Trump has promised to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement once again, start up massive oil drilling and terminate what he calls the green ‘scam’. Excerpts from This Week, Those Books on how, whatever happens, we are one world…of disasters and climate denial.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Ed Conway |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Kate Kitagawa |Timothy Revell
To start, could you tell me about the prize and what kind of nonfiction books you’re looking for for the shortlist? It’s called the ‘British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding’ and people often ask me, ‘What does it mean?’ In many ways, it means something quite straightforward, which is books that help us to understand other places, other cultures, and possibly also what we might owe them.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
news24.com | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Paul Theroux |Min Jin Lee |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Viet Thanh Nguyen
Burma Sahib Travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of British writer George Orwell, during the period he spent as a colonial policeman in Burma (now Myanmar) in the 1920s. Orwell wrote about this period in his novel, Burmese Days, and some episodes from his essays appear in the book—though Theroux goes well beyond those to create a work of fiction.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
vnexplorer.net | Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh
Author Amitav GhoshCelebrated author Amitav Ghosh has sounded alarm at a viral video of commuters being harassed during heavy rains in Lucknow. Videos of rain revellers harassing a woman and other commuters on the city’s waterlogged roads had been widely circulated on social media earlier this week, leading to the transfer of several senior police officers. One such video showed a crowd of people splashing water on cars near Taj Hotel.
