Murali Ranganathan does it again – an amazing new find!
ChrestomatherVisitors 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…
Synchronicities in Amsterdam
It was nice to be back last week in Amsterdam's Ambassade Hotel, twenty years after my wife and I first stayed there . …
India in Prague
Martin Hribek teaches Bengali at the Faculty of Arts in Charles University in Prague. Martin has spent a total of three years in Kolkata, living…
Angelo Ripellino’s ‘Magic Prague’
'Ancient folio of stone parchments, city-book in whose pages there is "still so much…
When The Rivers Run Dry
When The Rivers Run Dry is about water, especially fresh water – where it comes from, how it flows and what happens to it. The news is not…
Aatish Taseer’s ‘Stranger to History’
I met Aatish Taseer in New York last year, at the prize-giving ceremony of the National Book Awards of the USA …
Pankaj Mishra’s ‘From the Ruins of Empire’
A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal (Asia) wrote to me asking for a short recommendation of a soon-to-be-published book. My pick was Pankaj Mishra's From the…
Turkish POWs in India and Burma: First World War – Part 2
Guest post by Vedica Kant: The Turkish POW camp at Sumerpur was a self-sufficient camp on a large plain bordered by rocky hills and intersected by a river…