Jonathan Spence
Amitav GhoshThe historian Jonathan Spence is one of my literary heroes, not least because he has done more than any historian of the post-war era to restore history…
‘Chai’ and Dan dan noodles
As described in my last post, I recently received the following message from M.V. Ramana. Dear Amitav, Greetings from Princeton. I am enjoying River of Smoke, but a…
M.V. Ramana and Nuclear Sanity
I met M.V. Ramana in 1998 when I was writing Countdown, my essay on the nuclear situation in the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the most knowledgeable of…
Letter from Australia
Dear Jim I wrote to the email above but never heard back, so I don't know if you received my email. I just…