The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh: The Forecaster

Nandini Nair

Amitav Ghosh’s new book is a parable for a planet in crisis. He speaks to Nandini Nair about the cruelties of colonialism and the violent trajectory of the nutmeg

Amitav Ghosh: Thunder from the East

Shashi Tharoor

Amitav Ghosh in his historical Ibis trilogy reclaims the story of the victims told for so long by the imperial winners who enforced their will with the power of the gun masked by a rhetoric of civilisation