Churning the Earth
Amitav GhoshFor everyone who is perplexed by the peculiarly schizophrenic state of India’s economy, here is some good news: you will shortly be able to read a book that…
letter from a soldier of the Burma campaign
Dear Mr. Ghosh, I am writing to you to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your book, The Glass Palace. Having volunteered for the army in…
A pattern of ripples?
There are few things in the world as beguilingly enigmatic as the rivers of the Sundarbans. Underneath the surface there are titanic currents and counter-currents; there…
Alexandria Now
I met Lisa Goldman at a reading in Toronto on Oct 25th. She said some very nice things about In An Antique Land and added that she had…
Interviewer’s blog
Here is a link to a post by Victoria Lautmann, who recently interviewed me for the Chicago Humanities Festival. It was written before the interview. She was a…
‘Queen to Play’
I am interested in chess as a reader, not as a player. I was ever a sot for words and who can resist phrases like: ‘Nimzo-Indian Defence’, ‘Poisoned…
A list for Sanjay Persaud: some suggested readings on the Indian indenture
Dear Sanjay Persaud, You may remember that we had a brief talk after my reading at 'Politics and Prose' in Washington DC on Sept 27 (that was when…
A link to Commissioner Lin
The best thing about book readings is that they sometimes lead to meetings with people one would never encounter otherwise. Last night I was reading from River of…
A film-viewing ‘commons’?
Anupam Barvé, who recently acquired the film option for The Shadow Lines (see my post of Oct 15) wrote to me today to say that he and his…
Diwali!
The nicest Diwali card I got today was from an Englishman - Mike Bryan, who was head of Penguin India and is now head of Penguin Canada. Here it…