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Atwood, Ghosh, and "empty gestures"
Just a quick round-up of the controversy over the Dan David Prize–chiefly as an aide-memoire for myself. Funded by an Israeli philanthropist, the Dan David Prize was offered to Amitav Ghosh and...
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The BS column: The high cost of neutrality
(Published in the Business Standard, May 18, 2010; image from Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza) Highway 443 connects Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and remains one of the most visible symbols of the...
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Book review: River of Smoke, by Amitav Ghosh
(Published in the Business Standard, June 17, 2011.) River of SmokeAmitav GhoshViking/ Penguin India533 pages, Rs 699 And yet, it is also so familiar: Everywhere you look there are khidmatgars,...
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Booklove: The Shadow Lines and Tridib’s Gastric
(Written on Monday, Sept 16; published in the Business Standard, Sept 2013) The most famous passage in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, 25 years old this year, is the one where the narrator discovers...
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Flood of Fire: The Ibis’s last tumasher
Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh Penguin India Rs 799, 616 pages It seems just the other day that a ship called the Ibis, “like a great bird, with sails like wings and a long beak”, set sail with a company...
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