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 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 ...

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 ...

Author Amitav Ghosh is this year's keynote speaker at the Loyola University of Maryland Humanities Symposium, and he joins Jennifer Franciotti for a conversation about his research and writing about ...

One chapter concerns the plant that is the focus of Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes. ‘I should like to have accurate information about the AMFIAM which is what the people of this land use, and we call ...

Amitav Ghosh, after the glittering though occasionally uneven bada khayal of his Ibis trilogy has, of late, retreated into a series of shorter bandishes. Colonialism and climate change ...

When I was young, I never liked history in school. It was always a dry topic, capped off by having to remember a string of names and dates of things that I wasn’t interested in anyway.

Handwriting assignments fostered authenticity and connection in students, enhancing creativity and learning, unlike digital ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh discusses climate change ahead of his address at Loyola University Maryland 2025 Humanities Symposium.