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SEA OF POPPIES- Amitav Ghosh
Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production, the perils of 19th-century seafaring, and li… more →
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Review of River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
wrote 1 month ago: It’s taken me a couple months to work my way through this book. It was slower going than Sea of Popp … more →
Top Ten Books About India
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wrote 2 months ago: I recently returned from a two-week trip to India. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to write a few … more →
Books I’ve Been Reading Lately: For Fun
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wrote 4 months ago: I started my blog by announcing that I would read whatever I wanted now that I had left academia. He … more →
Latha's Holidays reading - Sea of Poppies
wrote 5 months ago: This is my review of one of my favourites - Sea of Poppies is Amitav Ghosh’s gripping tale of … more →
Day 218: Sea of Poppies
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wrote 5 months ago: Sea of Poppies is an absolutely enthralling historical novel, the first of a trilogy. Set in India i … more →
Of friends and mentors...
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wrote 5 months ago: Amitav Ghosh speaking at the SoUS Conference, Yerevan, Armenia. Courtesy of Blind Dates Project. Wha … more →
Some great Indian fiction
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wrote 9 months ago: As today marks 65 years of Indian independence, I thought I would share my favourite novels by India … more →
River of Smoke
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wrote 10 months ago: Sea of Poppies, for me, was Ghosh’s best work to date.I adored “The Glass Palace” … more →
The greatest storyteller: A tribute to Amitav Ghosh
wrote 10 months ago: “You cannot force your character to do something that isn’t them. They simply won’t let you” I sat i … more →
Sunday Salon: And I'm Back....
wrote 10 months ago: Both from a year in Beijing, and from an extremely long blog hiatus. I swore I’d close this bl … more →
Sea shipment arrives: the awe of expat transitions
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wrote 1 year ago: It was (mostly) a joy to receive the 40 foot container full of our stuff this weekend. The house is … more →
Writer's I Admire
wrote 1 year ago: Amitav Ghosh One of the most widely known Indians writing in English today. His work has deservedly … more →
Day 27: The Crippled Tree by Hans Suyin (China)
wrote 1 year ago: I have been reading Han Suyin‘s The Crippled Tree – a delightful account of her eurasian … more →
Finalist 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize
wrote 1 year ago: What a great news, My favorite writer Amitav Ghoshs’ latest novel River of Smoke leads the sho … more →
Book Recommendation #6: A Victorian Seafaring Tale
wrote 1 year ago: Welcome to my sixth and final winter-break book recommendation for adults: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea … more →
The Opium Trade
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wrote 1 year ago: While ‘Sea Of Poppies’ focused on the opium trade, with Ghosh sailing the story across s … more →
Falling In Love With Amitav Ghosh
wrote 1 year ago: I intended to stop reading Amitav Ghosh’s novels once I finished digesting the first of his Ibis tri … more →
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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wrote 1 year ago: Get to know these characters well – they will surely prove to be worth every page of their three-boo … more →
An Opium Journey
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wrote 1 year ago: Deeti had never been anywhere near the sea. She lived all her live in Bihar, near to the holy river, … more →
