Piazza of the Five Moons
Amitav GhoshAnna Nadotti has translated my books and articles into Italian since 1988 ('The Shadow Lines' was the first). She is a marvelous translator , one of…
Roman celebrations
On Wednesday night celebrations broke out as a blizzard of text messages blew through Rome's restaurants announcing Silvio Berlusconi's imminent departure. But the celebrations were…
Child abducted from tsunami refugee camp
Traveling to the Andamans after the 2004 tsunami I saw sights and heard stories that were almost unbearably painful (some of them are recounted in the article I wrote…
More on Commissioner Lin’s descendants
I met Celia Liu, a descendant of Commissioner Lin, at a reading in Brooklyn (see my post of October 28). She recently sent me the following message. …
tribute to the late Shrilal Shukla
Here is a link to a fine tribute to the late Shrilal Shukla by Amitabha Bagchi. Shrilalji was a great writer and a delightful man: I only met…
Churning the Earth
For everyone who is perplexed by the peculiarly schizophrenic state of India’s economy, here is some good news: you will shortly be able to read a book that…
letter from a soldier of the Burma campaign
Dear Mr. Ghosh, I am writing to you to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your book, The Glass Palace. Having volunteered for the army in…
A pattern of ripples?
There are few things in the world as beguilingly enigmatic as the rivers of the Sundarbans. Underneath the surface there are titanic currents and counter-currents; there…
Alexandria Now
I met Lisa Goldman at a reading in Toronto on Oct 25th. She said some very nice things about In An Antique Land and added that she had…
Interviewer’s blog
Here is a link to a post by Victoria Lautmann, who recently interviewed me for the Chicago Humanities Festival. It was written before the interview. She was a…