Rio de Janeiro: echoes of Goa
Amitav GhoshPanjim? Church and Monastery of São Bento, Don Geraldo St., 68, Downtown Rio Interior, Monastery of São…
Barra, Rio de Janeiro
Barra (where the 2016 Olympics are to be held), sometimes a bit like Miami and sometimes reminiscent of Kolkata…
Letter from Yangon
A friend writes from Yangon: Dear Amitav, How are you?... Today at American Centre…
Elephants in the Room
In the great torrent of words inspired by Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement what is not being discussed has proved to be almost as significant as what is being said.…
Hurricane Irene in Brooklyn
Brooklyn after Hurricane Irene Although these images might suggest otherwise, Hurricane Irene was not in a particularly intemperate mood when she passed over Brooklyn on Sunday, August…
August 16th
There are days that exhaust one’s capacity for outrage: this is one such. The arrest of Anna Hazare to begin with: one does not need to be a follower…
BB King and Bihar
For several months now I've been looking forward to the publication of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: A Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age by Naresh Fernandes. The extracts I read…
Agha Shahid Ali diaries: on abstraction
May 2001 Today I drove Shahid and Patricia into Manhattan for Shahid’s last class ]. He was very relieved that the course was coming to an end, even though he…
Thirteen Hong Street
Of late I'm often asked whether anything remains of the place that is referred to, in River of Smoke, as 'Fanqui-town' . This is of course the…
Book Tour Journals; Bengaluru (Bangalore); June 26-28
My visit to Bangalore began propitiously with an excellent dinner at the home of Shoba Narayan, whose books and articles I have been following for a long time:…