In the summer of 1976, a 20-year-old Amitav Ghosh visited some 30 plus foreign embassies in Delhi, delivering letters that offered his services as a teacher. The actual intention was not to teach ...

and culture Weekly update on developments in India and its neighbors A curated selection of our very best long reads Amitav Ghosh is the author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the ...

In the opening essay of Wild Fictions, which looks at migration through an altogether original prism, Amitav Ghosh observes that illegal immigration is often not by the destitute, but usually by ...

And yet 'Wild Fictions' by Amitav Ghosh (Fourth Estate) is not an arbitrary collection of essays. Essays in the collection summon a sense of urgent immediacy while exploring dialogic possibilities ...