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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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Get ready for a lot of nutmegs – what to expect from new Liverpool speedster Luis Diaz
2 years, 11 months ago

Get ready for a lot of nutmegs – what to expect from new Liverpool speedster Luis Diaz

New York Times  

What will Luis Diaz bring to Liverpool? The one skill that stands out most when watching YouTube videos, which carry titles like “Luis Diaz | Destroys Great Players”, is the 25-year-old’s ability to beat opposition players. Luis Diaz’s goal against City in the Champions League pic.twitter.com/p7MchEIuqh — The Anfield Wrap January 28, 2022 It was this goal against City that …

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When a Handful of Nutmegs Could Buy You a House or a Ship in Europe
3 years, 2 months ago

When a Handful of Nutmegs Could Buy You a House or a Ship in Europe

News 18  

The Banda Islands sit upon one of the fault lines where the Earth shows itself to be most palpably alive: the islands, and their volcano, are among the offspring of the Ring of Fire that runs from Chile, in the east, to the rim of the Indian Ocean, in the west. In the case of the Banda Islands the gift …

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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, 3 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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Amitav Ghosh explores the hidden history of climate change
3 years, 3 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 …

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Football news: Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann is yet to hear from Lionel Messi after £108m move
5 years, 5 months ago

Football news: Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann is yet to hear from Lionel Messi after £108m move

Daily Mail  

Barcelona's new star signing Antoine Griezmann has revealed he is yet to hear from Lionel Messi following the completion of his £108million move from Atletico Madrid. The French forward's lengthy transfer saga was finally brought to an end last week after his new club paid his sizeable release clause, and Griezmann could be in contention to make his debut against …

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