Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies, amongst others.
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Dancing in Cambodia
Amitav Ghosh
‘On 10 May 1906, at two in the afternoon, a French liner called the Amiral-Kersaint set off from Saigon carrying a troupe of nearly a hundred classical dancers and musicians from the royal palace at Phnom Penh.‘
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An Egyptian in Baghdad
Amitav Ghosh
‘It was exactly three weeks since Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, and miraculously, Abu-Ali, the old shopkeeper, was on his feet.’
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Four Corners
Amitav Ghosh
‘Never had a wilderness seemed so utterly vanquished.’
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Tibetan Dinner
Amitav Ghosh
‘The last time I'd eaten a mo-mo was as an undergraduate, in Delhi.’
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The Imam And The Indian
Amitav Ghosh
'We were both travelling, he and I: we were travelling in the West. The only difference was that I had actually been there, in person.'