The Dark House of the Neighbourhood
ChrestomatherIn an article written in 1996 I wrote of Burma that for several decades the country had been ‘the dark house of the neighbourhood, huddled behind an…
Petrofiction and Petroculture
In April this year I visited the University of Oregon, Eugene, which is a global pioneer in cross-disciplinary eco-critical studies. While I was there I had an interesting meeting…
Letter from a reader
_____________________ Dr Ghosh, It is with great pleasure I write this little note to you. I purchased one of your books, "The hungry tide" in an airport book shop during…
Links to my Bogaziçi Chronicles event with novelist Ayfer Tunç, Istanbul, June 6, 2014
Links to my Bogaziçi Chronicles event with novelist Ayfer Tunç at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, June 6, 2014: Aydinlik; Cumhuriyet; Taraf; Haysev; Radikal; Vatan; Haber Turk; kitapzen; …
Neel Mukherjee’s THE LIVES OF OTHERS: a review
Neel Mukherjee’s 2008 novel, Past Continuous is a many-stranded story, set partly in Calcutta (now Kolkata ) and partly in Oxford and London (I should add that…
Letter from a Mathematician, Concerning Fractal Forms in Indian Art
April 23 Hello Amitav: It was a pleasure meeting you and listening to your talk. I particularly enjoyed our brief conversation about Fractals at the end of the talk,…
Letter from University of Houston Students
On April 10 I met with a 'World Cultures and Literature 2351' class at the University of Houston. Last week Prof Anne Reitz, who teaches the course, forwarded me…
Correspondence with an Indian-American Student
4th April, 2014 Dear Mr. Amitav Ghosh, My name is Saloni Gupta and I was at a discussion held at the Asian American Cultural Center .…
Correspondence with Padma Viswanathan, author of THE EVER AFTER OF ASHWIN RAO
Padma Viswanathan's novel The Ever After of Ashwin Rao has just been published by Random House Canada. The jacket copy describes the book as: '... a stunning…
Laurel Braitman’s ANIMAL MADNESS – a review
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves Laurel Braitman Simon & Schuster Rare…