Correspondence with a mathematician/zoologist
ChrestomatherDear Mr Ghosh: Extra-ordinary book - "The Hungry Tide"!It is everything the reviews and the blurbs make it out to be - and much more - it is certainly one…
An Indian POW in Italy: Part 4 of 4
Satyen Basu, a doctor from Calcutta, joined the Indian Medical Service (the army medical corps) early in the Second World War and served with the Allied forces in…
An Indian POW in Italy: Part 3 of 4
Satyen Basu, a doctor from Calcutta, joined the Indian Medical Service (the army medical corps) early in the Second World War and served with the Allied forces in Iraq, Syria…
An Indian POW in Italy: part 2 of 4
Satyen Basu, a doctor from Calcutta, joined the Indian Medical Service (the army medical corps) early in the Second World War and served with the Allied forces in Iraq,…
An Indian POW in Italy: part 1 of 4
As a child of the nineteen-fifties, I came of age at a time when the Second World War was still fresh in public memory. The war was everywhere:…
Two poems for Agha Shahid Ali: his grave in Northampton
A few years ago, I don't know exactly when, my essay on the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali (which is posted here) was included in a textbook that…
Letter from Austria
From: Shankar Nath To: chrestomather@yahoo.in Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2012 2:57 AM Subject: khatirdari Dear Amitavji Being aware that this is one of a million bothersome Fan letters,…
‘Tristful’ post makes news in Trieste!
Amazing to relate, but my post of (March 13), 'Trsitful Trieste' has occasioned an article in a leading newspaper of the city, Il Piccolo. …
More on Zoroastrian rites
Further to my post on Zoroastrian Hong Kong, Shernaz Italia writes: Dear Amitav, There seems to be some degree of confusion regarding the disposal of the dead…
‘Glass Palace’ translator wins Myanmar National Literature Award!
On October 20, 2008, I received a message that all but knocked me over on my beam ends. It was from the distinguished American novelist, Robert Coover, author of The…