Letter from a Mathematician, Concerning Fractal Forms in Indian Art
ChrestomatherApril 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…
More on the Siege of Kut al-Amara
I recently posted an exchange of letters between myself and Chris Howell, who wrote to me after reading my posts on the Mesopotamia campaign of 1915-16 in the…
Correspondence on the siege of Kut al-Amara, 1916
March 17, 2014 Dear Mr Ghosh, Earlier today I came across your ‘On to Baghdad’ page on the net. Ten years ago I wrote and published a…
Correspondence on the Liverpool connections of 1st World War military doctor Kalyan Mukherji
Feb 18, 2014 Dear Amitav, I discovered your wonderful blog entries about Kalyan Kumar Mukherji whilst researching First World War soldiers from the Liverpool area. I initially became interested in Captain…
The Lascar War Memorial, Kolkata
The Lascar War Memorial is located in the Indian Naval premises of Hastings, Kolkata. In 1920, William Ingram Keir, an Associate of the Royal Institute of…
A Jewish connection with pre-war Rangoon
Dear Mr. Ghosh I just finished reading your book The Glass Palace. I enjoyed it very much. It has a very personal meaning to me and I would…