Letter about ‘The Ghat of the Only World’
ChrestomatherLetter about 'The Ghat of the Only World'. My essay on Agha Shahid Ali has been on the curriculum of India's Central Board of Secondary Education for quite a while,…
Eric Dean Wilson’s ‘After Cooling’
What kind of collective action is likely to be most effective in mitigating climate change? Switching to electric cars? Installing solar panels? Planting trees? Giving up flying? These are of…
The Temple in ‘Gun Island’
As a writer of fiction, it has happened to me many times over the years that scenes, characters and places that I believed to exist only in my imagination have…
Letter from Italy
Dear Mr Ghosh, I just want to thank you for the pleasure I 've received from reading your books. It is always a unique experience: while enjoying the narrative and…
Stories from the Anthropocene
I have of late been receiving many stories, novels, poems and art catalogues that cite The Great Derangement as an influence or inspiration. It is, of course, immensely gratifying for…
‘Acrobat’ Poems by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
The late poet and essayist Nabaneeta Dev Sen was a great writer and a dear friend. She was a woman of extraordinary warmth, generous to a fault and wonderfully witty.…
Jyoti Pande Lavakare’s ‘Breathing Here Is Injurious To Your Health’
Breathing Here Is Injurious To Your Health (Hachette India, 2020) is a compelling first person account of the struggle to bring India’s air pollution crisis to the forefront of the…
‘Powershift’ by Zorawar Daulet Singh
Given recent developments, few will deny that the increasingly adversarial relationship between India and China is one of the most important factors in the emerging geopolitics of the 21st century.…
Ben Ehrenreich’s ‘Desert Notebooks’
It’s been a long time since I read anything as exciting and illuminating as Ben Ehrenreich’s superb new book, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time (Counterpoint,…
‘A Burning’ by Megha Majumdar
Megha Mazumdar’s soon-to-be published A Burning is the best debut novel I have come across in a long time. In telling the story of a young Muslim girl whose life…