Amitav Ghosh

For Amitav Ghosh, nature is an intricate part of storytelling. The Indian author with Bangladeshi heritage who has made New York his home often uses the Sunderbans, the mangrove forests in the Bay of Bengal, as the setting for ...

If The Shadow Lines is confined to the upheavals of the Indian subcontinent, In an Antique Land rotates around the history of Egypt in eleventh century. Though in the form of a travelogue, Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land is about ...

A work of fiction is invariably a quest, for an identity and meaning, most of all for personal significance in a living world. In In an Antique Land Amitav Ghosh imposes a pattern on his own experiences in Lataifa ...