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 has been an underlying theme for all his works, how climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. When I first started writing about climate change many people were surprised by my interest in the subject, because at that time there was very little awareness of the subject amongst most people.

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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 …

Amitav Ghosh explores the hidden history of climate change
3 years, 2 months ago

Amitav Ghosh explores the hidden history of climate change

Live Mint  

There’s a haunting line in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables For A Planet In Crisis that stayed with me long after I had finished reading the book: “.The climactic changes of our era are nothing other than the Earth’s response to four centuries of terraforming.” Terraforming isn’t a word you would normally associate with Earth. In Ghosh’s urgent and …

Climate change spares no country, poor or rich, says Amitav Ghosh
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate change spares no country, poor or rich, says Amitav Ghosh

The Hindu  

For Amitav Ghosh, nature is an intricate part of storytelling. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Ghosh feels strongly about the effects of climate change and natural disasters — especially floods; these are a regular occurrence in South Asian countries. by some of the comments coming out from Germany by the people who were hit by the floods," …

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