Europe and the fate of the Earth – Part 1 of 7
Chrestomather1. Bengal, where I was born, is a vast delta where thousands of creeks and rivers flow into each other to form a landscape that is…
Sunil Gangopadhyay and his legacy
Sunil Gangopadhyay was a great writer and a warm, kind and generous man. I can scarcely believe that he is gone. Our interests overlapped in odd and sometimes…
M.V. Ramana on the Future of Nuclear Energy in India – Part 2 of 2
The most disturbing sections of M.V. Ramana’s Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India are those that relate to safety. Ramana describes two incidents that came…
M.V.Ramana on the Future of Nuclear Energy in India – Part 1 of 2
On December 3, 2011 I wrote, in a post on this site: ‘I met M.V. Ramana in 1998 when I was writing Countdown, my essay on the nuclear situation…
Letter from a composer – with a theme for ‘Sea of Poppies’
Received on Oct 4, 2012 Dear Mr. Ghosh, I have been an admirer of your work, ever since I read The Circle of Reason. The Ibis Saga…
Murali Ranganathan does it again – an amazing new find!
Visitors 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…