Schooning with Dragons 2
ChrestomatherKomodo is the kind of island that inspires fantasy. From a distance, the ridge that runs along it …
Schooning with Dragons 1
The Bugis (or Buginese) are one of the great seafaring peoples of the Indian Ocean. Like those other great mariners, the Greeks, they are also great story-tellers: their epic,…
From Yangon
Dr Thant Myint-U is one of Burma's leading contemporary historians. His book River of Lost Footsteps is essential reading for anyone interested in Burma. His 2011 book…
My Foreword to ‘If I Die Here Who Will Remember Me?’
Below is my Foreword to Vedica Kant's fine new book: 'If I Die Here Who Will Remember Me?': India and the First World War published September 15, 2014,…
Eating Arakan-style
Unnoticed by the world at large India has, over the last few years, made massive financial commitments to its eastern neighbour, Myanmar: Mingun Pagoda, Sagaing region …
The Dark House of the Neighbourhood
In 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…