Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh's new book review: 'Wild Fictions' offers a glimpse into the mind of Amitav Ghosh, and on to the world through the lens of a well-read and widely travelled anthropologist-turned-writer.

8 years before Mumbai billboard tragedy, Amitav Ghosh made an eerie forecast

Author Amitav Ghosh had forewarned about Mumbai's billboards turning into 'deadly projectiles' during cyclones in his book 'The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable' in 2016.

Book review | In ‘Smoke and Ashes’, Amitav Ghosh connects the dots between opium, China and the world today

Author Amitav Ghosh’s new book, based on the rigorous research that informed his Ibis Trilogy, is a genre-bending cautionary tale about bullish globalisation.

Amitav Ghosh: ‘Humanity has never been in greater peril than it is now’

The Padma Shri and Jnanpith Awardee novelist on his latest non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes', whose foundation was laid with the research for 'Ibis Trilogy', the far-reaching effects of opium trade and humankind's greatest challenges today.

Book review | In 'The Living Mountain', Amitav Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the climate crisis

'The Living Mountain' is a continuation to two non-fiction books by Amitav Ghosh: 'The Great Derangement' and 'The Nutmeg’s Curse'.

When Shashi Tharoor played Antony to Mira Nair's Cleopatra

Recalling the time, Mira Nair had said, “I used to eat onions before my love scenes with Shashi Tharoor because he was so pompous."

Author Amitav Ghosh tweets unreleased Beatles song on Dehradun

George Harrisonhad written the song as an ode to the picturesque hill station.

Paris climate deal does nothing on climate justice: Amitav Ghosh

Celebrated author Amitav Ghosh has unveiled his first non-fiction book titled "The Great Derangement; Climate Change and Unthinkable". Speaking exclusively to CNBC-TV18, Ghosh lambasted the Paris climate accord saying it does nothing to ensure climate justice.

Chiki Sarkar said to quit Penguin India, may start own firm

The publisher of Penguin Random House India, Chiki Sarkar, has quit the company along with 4 top executives.

The Oxford India Day 2011: Celebrating 400 year old ties

Being in season at Oxford was marked with an India Day at Oxford that celebrated these associations and prepared to build more.

For me, writing is about people, says Amitav Ghosh

A writer, whose stories have transported us to far away unknown and thrilling places. His stories have always been hugely entertaining. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, a very popular, acclaimed and prolific Amitav Ghosh talks about his stories, inspirations and what does has he planned for the future.

Amitav Ghosh's next book

Three years after the Ibis left readers wondering what happened to the passengers she set sail with in Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh returns to narrate what happens next, in the second book — River of Smoke — of his Ibis Trilogy.