Indira Goswami
Amitav GhoshI was deeply saddened to learn of Indira Goswami’s death on November 29. I first met Indiraji in Delhi in the 1980s. She was one of the…
Orissa Mining Activist Arrested
Felix Padel, co-author of Out of This Earth (see my post of July 19) has circulated the following statement with this accompanying note: State repression against villagers refusing to…
Light under a bushel?
Murali Ranganathan is among the most interesting of the many people who have come into my life through book releases and readings. I met him at the Mumbai release…
letter from a teenager
Dear Amitav Ghosh, I am a 14 year old teenager from Mysore, India and a HUGE fan of your writing and I seriously think you are India's finest English author…
Roman Modern
Rome's MAXXI - the National Museum of 21st Century Art - is one the Via Guido Reni, in the Flaminia neighbourhood. …
Clea: Lawrence Durrell
May 29, 1980 Finished reading ‘Clea’ yesterday. Was more or less in tears at the end of it. The books get better and better. I think…
A Roman Feast
Marco d'Eramo is a prominent Italian writer and journalist. He writes for Il Manifesto, which is a left-wing journal, but Marco is a born contrarian and…
A True Roman
On November 5 I received this message: Dear mr. Ghosh, My name is Anadi Mishra, I’m a Phd Researcher at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. As you…
Debt and Democracy in Italy
I met Andrea Baranes at the Teatro Valle in Rome: he is closely associated with the group that has occupied the theatre for the last…
A Roman Occupation
On June 14 this year a group of actors, stage-workers, writers and artists took over one of Europe’s most famous theatres: the Teatro Valle in Rome. …