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COP28 Summit and India | Is climate fatigue setting in?
1 year ago

COP28 Summit and India | Is climate fatigue setting in?

The Hindu  

We are half way through the CoP28 being held in Dubai – with half a million registrations, 77,000 delegates, 189 countries– that will end next week. In his speech at the inaugural session with leaders PM Modi made several points: India has 17 percent of the world’s population, is the most populous country but its share in global carbon emissions …

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Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report
1 year, 2 months ago

Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report

The Hindu  

Books by famous authors such as J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh, Rupi Kaur, and Neil Gaiman are part of a dataset of pirated books known as Books3, which has been used by large companies to train their generative AI models, according to a report by The Atlantic. The news publication made available a searchable database of the dataset called ‘Books3,’ which …

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Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started
1 year, 4 months ago

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started

LA Times  

Want to So we figured it was time for me to share a list of books I’ve found helpful, for newbies and experts alike. “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh : Don’t be deterred by this book’s academic appearance. Through meticulously reported examples, she explains why letting go of a “free market” economy is critical …

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Who is Salman Toor? All about Ali Sethi's rumoured partner
1 year, 4 months ago

Who is Salman Toor? All about Ali Sethi's rumoured partner

India TV News  

Celebrities' personal lives are always in the public eye and under scrutiny. In the episode, Pasoori fame Ali Sethi recently hogged headlines for his alleged marriage with artist Salman Toor. Take a look: Ali Sethi's Instagram story While some shared congratulatory messages, a section of users turned homophobic and bashed the singer. Another user wrote, "Najam Sethi - Insurgent cum …

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EXCLUSIVE! Amitav Ghosh on Smoke and Ashes: ‘Climate disruption is a clear and present danger’
1 year, 4 months ago

EXCLUSIVE! Amitav Ghosh on Smoke and Ashes: ‘Climate disruption is a clear and present danger’

Firstpost  

In an interview with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy, author Amitav Ghosh talks about his favourite non-fiction book Smoke and Ashes, climate change and how opium trade has a multiplier effect in heightening social and political tensions. Amitav Ghosh’s book Smoke and Ashes talks about the writer’s journey through opium’s hidden histories. A global literary figure, Ghosh talks about how travel …

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‘Only by recognising the power & intelligence of the opium poppy can we even begin to make peace with it’
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Only by recognising the power & intelligence of the opium poppy can we even begin to make peace with it’

Times of India  

Having journeyed to journalism via academics and a PhD from the University of Florida, Renuka Bisht now has the great pleasure of working with the editorial page of TOI. As impressed as the next person by big bang reforms, she’s also a champion of incremental change – because even a little star can light the way for a traveler in …

Serum Institute could resume Covishield production as Covid cases rise
1 year, 8 months ago

Serum Institute could resume Covishield production as Covid cases rise

Live Mint  

The Serum Institute of India could resume production of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine as infections rise in the country, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. Dr Amitav Banerjee - an epidemiologist who leads DY Patil Medical College in Pune has earlier said that Covishield carried a ‘double whammy of risk’. Many would perhaps not know that Covishield carries a DNA …

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ABP Network Ideas Of India Summit Is Back, With Focus On 'Naya India'
1 year, 10 months ago

ABP Network Ideas Of India Summit Is Back, With Focus On 'Naya India'

ABP News  

The second edition of the ABP Network "Ideas of India Summit", which will be held on February 24-25, takes place at a time of global geopolitical tensions and with just a year to go for the general elections in India. The theme for this year's summit is 'Naya India: Looking Inward, Reaching Out', and will see several business icons, cultural …

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HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed picks his favourite reads of 2022
2 years ago

HT reviewer Syed Saad Ahmed picks his favourite reads of 2022

Hindustan Times  

The newsletter Words for Worlds by Gautam Bhatia revealed a big lacuna in my bookshelf: science fiction. In Cixin’s novel, nanotech engineer Wang Miao witnesses disturbing phenomena that seemingly have no explanation and contradict scientific laws. As Miao infiltrates ‘Frontiers of Science’, a group that might be linked to the deaths, he comes across a virtual reality game. Reviewer Syed …

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Are rich and poor countries divided on COP27 outcomes? - The Hindu
2 years ago

Are rich and poor countries divided on COP27 outcomes? - The Hindu

The Hindu  

November 25, 2022 08:35 pm | Updated 08:35 pm IST Another climate change summit has ended- COP27 in Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh nearly ended last weekend without a deal. But on Sunday, it came out with progress on a long-pending agreement to set up a loss and damages fund to help the world’s most vulnerable countries hit by climate change. …

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People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh
2 years, 2 months ago

People Are Choosing to Ignore Climate Change; It Is a Political Decision: Amitav Ghosh

News 18  

When it comes to climate change, author and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh feels a personal responsibility to write about it, to talk about it, and to inform people about it. He feels a personal responsibility to write about climate change because he lived in Sundarbans for a long time and saw the impact there over the years. While Waters asked …

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Amitav Ghosh unpacks colonization and global warming in The Living Mountain
2 years, 3 months ago

Amitav Ghosh unpacks colonization and global warming in The Living Mountain

Firstpost  

Amitav Ghosh’s new book is set in a valley where indigenous people from warring villages live off the abundant riches from a sacred mountain. After books like The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, which dive into this subject, he is back …

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Orissa High Court Half-Yearly Digest: January-June 2022 [Citations 1-107]
2 years, 3 months ago

Orissa High Court Half-Yearly Digest: January-June 2022 [Citations 1-107]

Live Law  

Nominal Index : 1. TPCL Is 'Authority' Under Article 226; Electricity Distribution Companies Discharging Public Duty Amenable To Writ Jurisdiction: Orissa High Court Case Title: Surendra Kumar Sahoo v. State of Odisha Citation: 2022 LiveLaw 5 The Court held that the Tata Power Company Limited is an "authority" within the meaning of Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Case …

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Salman Rushdie stabbed: Javed Akhtar condemns 'barbaric attack' on The Satanic Verses author, urges action
2 years, 4 months ago

Salman Rushdie stabbed: Javed Akhtar condemns 'barbaric attack' on The Satanic Verses author, urges action

India TV News  

Salman Rushdie, the author whose controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Javed Akhtar condemns attack on Salman Rushdie After the unfortunate attack on Rushdie at a public event, veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar took to Twitter to …

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Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more
2 years, 5 months ago

Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more

Deccan Chronicle  

In our geography textbook of Grade VI or VII, there was a mention of the harsh summer months people of Rajasthan living around the desert belt have to endure. Such, too, is the impact of Amitav Ghosh’s recently released book The Living Mountain. However, spanning just 37 pages, The Living Mountain belies the expectations with which one goes to Ghosh …

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Orissa High Court Weekly Round Up : May 16 To May 22, 2022
2 years, 7 months ago

Orissa High Court Weekly Round Up : May 16 To May 22, 2022

Live Law  

Nominal Index : 1. Invocation Of Arbitration Clause In Tender Document Is Possible Only If Purchase Order Is Placed: Orissa High Court Case Title: Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd v. The Managing Director, Odisha State Medical Corporation & Ors. "No Reason For Close Relatives To Falsely Accuse": Orissa High Court Upholds Life Sentence Awarded To Man For Murder Of Cousin Brother Case …

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Is this the big moment for Indian writing in translation?
2 years, 7 months ago

Is this the big moment for Indian writing in translation?

Live Mint  

On 26 May, the International Booker Prize will be announced—and it could well go to Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel Ret-Samadhi, translated into English by Daisy Rockwell as Tomb of Sand. Among the more prominent efforts are Kannada writer Vivek Shanbhag’s 2013 novella, Ghachar Ghochar, translated into English by Srinath Perur in 2015, and One Part Woman, the 2010 Tamil novel …

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The Hindu on Books | Amitav Ghosh’s new fable, threat to Indian democracy and more
2 years, 9 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Amitav Ghosh’s new fable, threat to Indian democracy and more

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. In reviews, we read about the threat to democratic institutions in India today, a social history of tribal Nagaland and its Christian communities, a tribute to the martyrs of the 1971 war, Polo Oloixarac’s new satiric novel …

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A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societies
2 years, 9 months ago

A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societies

Deccan Chronicle  

What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued? One that looks not just at some horrific colonial violence but also at how the very narrative of environmental conservation is born in the bowels of White supremacy, or extreme racism and the systematic use of “science” to kill, drown, murder, stamp …

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Amitav Ghosh interview | ‘Planetary crisis is a kind of bio-political war, akin to those of the past’
3 years, 1 month ago

Amitav Ghosh interview | ‘Planetary crisis is a kind of bio-political war, akin to those of the past’

The Hindu  

Celebrated writerAmitav Ghoshsays the “planetary crisis” is akin to the “bio-political wars of the past” and holds that “things are really not good” in the world today. Speaking of his new bookThe Nutmeg’s Curse, Mr. Ghosh said that violence directed at people, ultimately, becomes violence directed at the environment. I heard the President of Palau, one of the Pacific islands’ …

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Amitav Ghosh on capitalism, climate change and a planet in crisis | The Hindu On Books podcast
3 years, 1 month ago

Amitav Ghosh on capitalism, climate change and a planet in crisis | The Hindu On Books podcast

The Hindu  

Here is a transcript of the conversation between author Amitav Ghosh and host Amit Baruah, Senior Associate Editor with The Hindu. They basically eliminated the entire population of the islands, killing several thousand and enslaving the rest in order to gain control of a resource whereas you know, these other atrocities like Jallianwala Bagh, or whatever, actually, you know, like …

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One or two disasters won't wake up India: Amitav Ghosh on climate crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

One or two disasters won't wake up India: Amitav Ghosh on climate crisis

India Today  

As COP26, or this year’s United Nations climate summit, began in Scotland’s Glasgow, India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to author Amitav Ghosh, who has worked extensively on environmental issues, on the Indian situation. I wish I could say that one or two disasters would wake the country up but it’s clear that it’s not going to happen. …

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Sujatha Byravan reviews The Nutmeg’s Curse, by Amitav Ghosh
3 years, 2 months ago

Sujatha Byravan reviews The Nutmeg’s Curse, by Amitav Ghosh

The Hindu  

Amitav Ghosh opens The Nutmeg’s Curse with soldiers from the Dutch East India Company unleashing their savagery on the people of the Banda Islands in the 17th century. White man’s burden Colonialists’ claim to the “savage”, “wild” and “vacant” land laid the seeds of climate change, believes Ghosh. While thumbing one’s nose at scientism might be valid, when the planet …

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Book review: Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse lacks rigorous thought
3 years, 2 months ago

Book review: Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse lacks rigorous thought

Firstpost  

Amitav Ghosh is an anthropologist by training but is best known as a fiction writer, and he chooses anthropological subjects around which he constructs fiction – for instance, the people, ecology and legends of the Ganges delta in The Hungry Tide. More interesting however is the fact that philosopher and polemicist Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, explained in …

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