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  1. Hunger der Gezeiten by Amitav Ghosh, 2006-09-30
  2. Les feux du Bengale by Amitav Ghosh, 1990-09-12
  3. Zeiten des Glücks im Unglück: Indische Augenblicke by Amitav Ghosh,
  4. Theq Calcutta chromosome; a novel of fevers, delerium & discovery. by Amitav Ghosh, 1997
  5. Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines: A Critical Companion (New Orientations)
  6. Amitav Ghosh ; A Critical Study
  7. Biography - Ghosh, Amitav (1956-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team, 2007-01-01
  8. "That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him": Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace and the colonial experience.: An article from: International Fiction Review by R.K. Gupta, 2006-01-01
  9. Amitav Ghosh's The "Shadow Lines": Critical Essays
  10. South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh (AUP - IIAS Publications) by Rituparna Roy, 2011-02-15
  11. Amitav Ghosh - A Critical Companion: With a New Essay on Satyagit Ray
  12. The Novel of Amitav Ghosh by R K Dhawan, 1999-01-01
  13. (THE SHADOW LINES) BY Ghosh, Amitav ( AUTHOR )paperback{The Shadow Lines} on 01 May, 2005
  14. An interview with Amitav Ghosh. (WLT Interview).(Interview): An article from: World Literature Today by Frederick Luis Aldama, 2002-03-22

41. Kitabkhana: Amitav Ghosh: The Tsunami Essay
amitav ghosh went to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just after the devastation; he wrote a threepart article for The Hindu about what he found.
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    Amitav Ghosh: the tsunami essay
    Caught up with this at Amardeep's blog. Amitav Ghosh went to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just after the devastation; he wrote a three-part article for The Hindu about what he found.
    In Part One, Overlapping Faults, he makes the point that:
    "Over the last two weeks, both the fault lines that underlie the islands seem suddenly to have been set in motion: it is as if the hurried history of an emergent nation had collided here with the deep time of geology."
    In Part Two, No Aid Needed, he stumbled across a man whom he calls just The Director, who was looking for survivors from his family.
    In Part Three

42. Amitav Ghosh Biography And List Of Works - Amitav Ghosh Books
amitav ghosh Biography amitav ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), one of the finest Indian authors writing in the English language.
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Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), one of the finest Indian authors writing in the English language. He was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded D. Phil in social anthropology. His latest work of fiction, The Hungry Tide was published in April 2004. The Shadow Lines In An Antique Land The Circle of Reason The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), and The Glass Palace (2000) are his other novels. Ghosh also has three works of non-fiction to his credit. They are Countdown (on India's nuclear policy) The Imam and the Indian (a large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, egyptian culture and literature) and

43. Amitav Ghosh (0719070058) MONDAL - Manchester University Press
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44. Amitav Ghosh
Literary Persons of india,amitav ghosh,amitav ghosh, born 1956 in Calcutta, is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language.
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Literary Persons Kalidasa Mirza Ghalib Rabindranath Tagore R.K. Narayan ... Shashi Tharoor Amitav Ghosh, born 1956 in Calcutta, is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language. He was educated at The Doon School, where he was a younger contemporary of Vikram Seth, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of 'In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding' (1993) and a senior editor at Little Brown and Co., and his children Lila and Nayan. In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College in the City University of New York as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature. His latest work of fiction, 'The Hungry Tide' was published in April, 2004. His other novels are 'The Shadow Lines' (1990), 'In An Antique Land' (1994), 'The Circle of Reason' (1986), 'The Calcutta Chromosome' (1995), and 'The Glass Palace' (2000). The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary prize. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997. Ghosh also has three works of non-fiction to his credit. They are 'Countdown' (on India's nuclear policy) 'The Imam and the Indian' (a large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, Egyptian culture and literature) and 'Dancing in Cambodia', At Large in Burma.

45. KaNaad's Korner: The Glass Palace By Amitav Ghosh
The Glass Palace by amitav ghosh. The novel is spread over more than a hundred years, in subcontinental settings ranging from Burma, to coastal India
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The novel is spread over more than a hundred years, in sub-continental settings ranging from Burma, to coastal India (Eastern and Western) and Malaya. Ghosh uses extensively researched facts to create a wonderful, arresting setting for the story. He opens the book with the fall of Burma to the British with this fabulous opening sentence:
There was only one person in the food-stall who knew exactly what that sound was that was rolling in across the plain, along the silver curve of the Irawaddy, to the western wall of Mandalay's fort. His name was Rajkumar and he was an Indian, a boy of eleven - not an authority to be relied upon. Starting with the subsequent exile of the Burmese royal family to Ratnagiri, Ghosh runs through a century of events and many generations of characters in a book that alternates between the closely pictured personal lives of its characters and wide ranging social and political issues engulfing the sub-continent. He does a great job using such wonderful material to weave a captivating story. The writing is somewhat varying in quality, ranging from mostly sublime to somewhat trite in a few places.
Ghosh uses this backdrop and cast of characters to narrate a tale of multiple countries under British colonial rule. The novel expresses the opinions of the rulers and the ruled, conflicting yet each very believable. The role of the British Indian army in the maintenance and expansion of the British empire is well captured, as is the revolt by its soldiers in the WW-II era. Throughout, Ghosh's characters are true to life, and yet represent the larger reality of the world.

46. Granta: Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He is the author of three novels: The Circle of Reason The Calcutta Chromosome and The Shadow Lines , and a book of non-fiction, In an Antique Land . His official website is at www.amitavghosh.com
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Cambodia has a long tradition of classical dance. Amitav Ghosh meets one of its greatest exponents, a national treasure who happens to be Pol Pot's sister-in-law. An Egyptian in Bagdad
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47. Gaddeswarup's Blog: Goitein, Geniza And Amitav Ghosh
While rummaging through my son s books I stumbled upon amitav ghosh s In an Antique Land , found it engrossing and finished it in one sitting.
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Goitein, Geniza and Amitav Ghosh
While rummaging through my son's books I stumbled upon Amitav Ghosh's "In an Antique Land", found it engrossing and finished it in one sitting. As the cover quotes from Sunday Times:
"Ghosh's book is extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into twelfth century as it touches on the dilemnas of our own times".
Cohen's article gives a description of how Amitav Ghosh started on the book:
He began by choosing to do his anthropological fieldwork in Egypt. His quest later brought him to Princeton in 1985: he wanted to meet Goitein. But Goitein had recently died, so poor Amitav Ghosh got me instead, a distant runner-up. That began an association that lasted several years while Amitav researched the Indian trade documents in the Geniza, first in Princeton, then in Cambridge, England, reading the Judaeo-Arabic texts about his characters in the original, and writing chapters for his book. It is a riveting story, interweaving his own experience as an Indian living in Egyptian villages of the late twentieth century with that of Bomma, the Egyptian(?) slave of that Jewish merchant who travelled between Egypt and India 850 years earlier.
Goitein would have loved In an Antique Land, for he was deeply committed to broad educational goals."

48. Literature-Map: Amitav Ghosh
What else do readers of amitav ghosh read? What else do readers of amitav ghosh read? The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both
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49. Campaign For The American Reader: Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide"
amitav ghosh s The Hungry Tide (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) has been touted as both a prophetic and poetic novel. Its description of the natural beauty as well
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Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide"
Professor Ray Taras generously reviewed Ghosh's The Hungry Tide for the blog: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) has been touted as both a prophetic and poetic novel. Its description of the natural beauty as well as the perils of the Sundarbansthe tide countr y lying to the south of West Bengal and Bangladesh is in many respects poetic. While it does not rival the quoted poetry from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies which concludes many of the chapters, the book lends new meaning to the lines "Tiger, tiger, burning bright...." For indeed there are fearsome man-eating tigers prowling in the mangroves of the Sundarbansa romantic, haunting trope that the author uses to bring the implicit debate between environmentalists and survivalists to a memorable climax.
As for the prophesy the novel holds, what can we say other than that its publication predated the South Asian tsunami and hurricane Katrina by months? The image of flood water pouring across lowlands, people rowing to land in small boats, individuals perched on fragile roofs or in windswept trees, families returning soon after the storm to their broken homes intent on rebuilding, is one we are familiar with.

50. Amitav Ghosh Essay By Brian Kiteley, Travel, Intimate Historiography
amitav ghosh, a Hindu Indian raised in what was then largely Muslim Eastern Pakistan, born in Calcutta, educated at Oxford, sent for his anthropological
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If the brain, as We believe, is shaped by thoughts and not the other way around, then our own is composed of one nacreous coil, our thoughts sweeping upward under the influence of a lucent tide, the whole protected by a layering of scales. The Word "Desire" Eothen Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth
I had long been dreading this line of questioning, knowing exactly where it would lead.
"You mean," he said in rising disbelief, "there are some people in your country who are not circumcised?"
In Arabic the word "circumcise" derives from a root that means "to purify": to say of someone that they are "uncircumcised" is more or less to call them impure.
"Yes," I answered, "yes, many people in my country are 'impure.'" I had no alternative; I was trapped by language. Amitav Ghosh said he learned to write fiction by means of the process of keeping two notebooks of observations during his fieldwork in Egypt. He spoke to a class of mine a few years ago and answered some question about the value of writing programs, saying that his anthropological field work was all the training in creative writing that he ever had. One set of notes were for the official work he was doing, the doctoral thesis research; the other was personal, commentary on the struggles to make sense of things, but also overflowing with the material unsuited for the anthropology he was doing. Ghosh said that the tension between these two notebooks made him realize some important lesson about writing generally. I think it is fair to say that

51. Amitav Ghosh - Amitav Ghosh Biography - Amitav Ghosh Life History - Amitav Ghosh
Here is a brief biography of US based Indian writer amitav ghosh. It includes books and novels written by amitav ghosh as well.
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Amitav Ghosh, a pioneer of English literature in India, was born in Calcutta (Now Kolkata) in the year 1956. Amitav Ghosh has been raised and educated at the same time in as different locations as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India and the United Kingdom. He completed his higher studies in England where he went on to receive his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford University. After completing his Ph.D. he decided to pursue his career in writing.
Amitav Ghosh is acclaimed in the literary world for his works on fiction, travel writing and journalism. His long list of accomplishment includes books like The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous work, The Glass Palace, was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. Recently published there, The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Among awards, Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize.

52. Paura, Speranza: Amitav Ghosh (2005) (TV)
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53. Powell's Books - The Glass Palace By Amitav Ghosh
Brilliant and exotic, The Glass Palace is a superb novel of love, war, and family by an exceptional writer (Peter Matthiessen).
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54. READERSVOICE.COM - Amitav Ghosh Talks About Researching His Novel The Hungry Tid
amitav ghosh talks about researchng and writing his novel The Hungry Tide at the Brisbane Writers.
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55. Amitav Ghosh - Biography, Plus Book Reviews & Excerpts.
A biography of amitav ghosh, plus book reviews and book excerpts from one or more books by ghosh.
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56. Paura, Speranza: Amitav Ghosh (2005) (TV) - Filming Locations
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57. ANAMIKA: Bongs, Ram Guha And Amitav Ghosh
More recently, when I read (eminent Bong writer and scholar) amitav ghosh s Hungry Tide , I could not help feeling how Bongcentered the work was (actually
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Bongs, Ram Guha And Amitav Ghosh
Note: I have met and known people from all over India. A disproportionately large number of my acquaintances have been Bengalis (Bongs hereafer); and up to a certain point of time, almost all bongs I knew were of the ultra Academic variety. I must say here that they were among the more interesting sets of people - in ethnicity terms - I have got to know. This longish post is on just one aspect of the 'standard' Bong intellectual's mindset - how he/she views the cultural formations of the rest of India. This is the take of someone who has not visited Bong country although over the years, I have get to know a few non-Academic Bongs as well (including one unique character encountered in Pondicherry, somone who easily ranks in the top ten of the most unique people I have known, but I won't be able to say anything about him here and now).
When I read eminent writer and historian Ramachandra Guha's review of Amartya Sen's 'Argumentative Indian' (appeared more than a year ago and now, not available online), it rang a bell, loud and clear. Let me quote a bit from fading memory:

58. Book Review - The Hungry Tide By Amitav Ghosh
It s in this tide country, the Sundarbans, where amitav ghosh sets his engaging novel, The Hungry Tide. The book is told from the perspective of its two
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The Tide of Emotion The Hungry Tide
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Published by HarperCollins Review by W. R. Greer The Ganges River flows from the Himalayan Mountains across northern India, emptying into the Bay of Bengal. The river delta creates a vast archipelago of islands, the Sundarbans, where mangrove jungles grow quickly on land not reclaimed by the tide. The tidal surge from the sea can cover three hundred kilometers, constantly reshaping or devouring islands, with just the tops of the jungles often visible at high tide. This is the tide country, home to the Bengal tiger, huge crocodiles, sharks, snakes, impenetrable forests, and a few people trying to scratch out a living. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sir Daniel Hamilton decided to create a utopian society there, offering free land to those willing to work as long as they accepted the others as equals, regardless of caste or ethnicity. It's a difficult life that leaves most women widowed at a young age and land barely farmable if the saltwater of the hungry tide can be kept from flooding their fields. It's in this tide country, the Sundarbans, where Amitav Ghosh sets his engaging novel

59. Frisbee: Amitav Ghosh
A political novelist reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul, amitav ghosh describes in THE HUNGRY TIDE the struggles of the people of the Sundarbans,
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A political novelist reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh describes in THE HUNGRY TIDE the struggles of the people of the Sundarbans, a group of islands off the eastern coast of India. Nature is their biggest foe: tigers attack men in the mangrove forests; storms and tidal waves destroy villages; women expect to be widowed at a young age. But government policy has also been their enemy.
The following two passages are not about the massacre of the Bengali refugees, however. One is about passion for work, the other about ecology.
In the passage below, Kanai, an interpreter and businessman, makes a fascinating connection between marine biology and translation while observing Piya, a marine biologist, at work.
The next passage describes the dwindling Orcaella (river dolphin) population in the Mekong, where Piya had worked before journeying to India.
The horror of the massacre of the dolphins, in a spooky way, parallels the massacre of the Bengali. Ghosh also captures the commitment and frustration of the activists as they attempt to rescue people and the environment. Posted by Mad Housewife at 6:52 PM
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60. Kazuo Ishiguro News - The New York Times - Narrowed By 'GHOSH, AMITAV'
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