In an exclusive interview with indianexpress.com, Amitav Ghosh discusses the solitary nature of writing, why recognition and ...

Amitav Ghosh is someone who can truly be seen as a chronicler of our times. The novelist and journalist has been awarded and ...

Q/ You write about the opium war, climate change, colonisation and migration. Does it ever get depressing?

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 ...

Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh’s exceptional writings over the past twenty-five years, covering themes that have long captured his interest: literature and language, climate change and the ...

Amitav Ghosh, one of a handful of Indian authors with a global readership, is not only a great storyteller, he is an excellent essayist. His essay collections are as eagerly awaited as his fictions.

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 ...