Europe and the Fate of the Earth – Part 3 of 7
Chrestomather3. From confluence to crossroads: we come now to a fork in the road that confronts not just Europe but our entire planet. In some ways the dilemmas…
Europe and the Fate of the Earth – Part 2 of 7
In the latter half of the 20th century European governments, often with the best intentions, responded to immigrants by providing support for what they saw as the…
Europe and the fate of the Earth – Part 1 of 7
1. Bengal, where I was born, is a vast delta where thousands of creeks and rivers flow into each other to form a landscape that is…
Sunil Gangopadhyay and his legacy
Sunil Gangopadhyay was a great writer and a warm, kind and generous man. I can scarcely believe that he is gone. Our interests overlapped in odd and sometimes…
M.V. Ramana on the Future of Nuclear Energy in India – Part 2 of 2
The most disturbing sections of M.V. Ramana’s Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India are those that relate to safety. Ramana describes two incidents that came…
M.V.Ramana on the Future of Nuclear Energy in India – Part 1 of 2
On December 3, 2011 I wrote, in a post on this site: ‘I met M.V. Ramana in 1998 when I was writing Countdown, my essay on the nuclear situation…
Letter from a composer – with a theme for ‘Sea of Poppies’
Received on Oct 4, 2012 Dear Mr. Ghosh, I have been an admirer of your work, ever since I read The Circle of Reason. The Ibis Saga…
Murali Ranganathan does it again – an amazing new find!
Visitors to this site will know that I have corresponded with Murali Ranganathan before. In an earlier post I had this to say about him: Murali Ranganathan is among…
Links to ‘Imagining Europe’ in Amsterdam
Links to the European Cultural Foundation's 'Imagining Europe' in Amsterdam, including my talk and appearance on the Dutch TV show 'Buitenhof': http://www.culturalfoundation.eu/news/3167 http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Cultural-Foundation/168799993154815 http://www.debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?articleid=459216 http://soundcloud.com/ecf_sounds/imagining-europe-amitav-ghosh http://www.viceversaonline.nl/events/imagining-europe-met-optreden-van-amitav-ghosh/ http://www.partyearth.com/amsterdam/special-events/imagining-europe-amitav-ghosh-and-twan-huys-1/ Buitenhof…
To my Romanian readers
Today the Romanian edition of River of Smoke is to be released in Bucharest. I had hoped to be there for the occasion but sadly it was not…