Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more
Deccan ChronicleIn 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 — the inimitable prose with which he takes us to the intimate recesses that his characters inhabit and the unspooling that follows. “It would protect us and look after us — but only on condition that we told stories about it, and sang about it, and danced for it — but always from a distance.” Joyous in their meagre existences, they might have appeared docile, trusting the teachings of the older clan — the Adepts — almost without applying logic, like a sacrament, but who knows if they are wiser than the technologically best advanced amongst us? It reads almost like a summary — offering us only a skeleton — that can be, at best, thought of as a catalyst to begin the conversation around climate change.
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