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TopicAmitav Ghosh

Topic: Amitav Ghosh

Curious Trump ‘affair’ with Pakistan & possible patch-up with India, & Amitav Ghosh’s secret manuscript

FT underlines ‘lack of innovation’ in India while BBC reports how Mamta Pathak, a 63-year-old chemistry teacher accused of killing her husband, defended herself in court. 

New book presents Amitav Ghosh’s exceptional writings. Fresh perspective on the world

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Wild Fictions’ will be released on 27 January on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Amitav Ghosh new book blames India too for China’s opium addiction, ‘civilisational shock’

Opium played such a foundational role in India's history and society and yet we don’t hear about it anywhere in schools and colleges, says Amitav Ghosh.

Govts around the world have learnt language of ‘greenwashing’, especially India: Amitav Ghosh

Geopolitics of climate change is never discussed at meetings like COP, which are oriented towards technocratic & technological solutions, Amitav Ghosh says at ThePrint’s Off the Cuff. 

Congress, Left, BJP – India striving to remake itself as settler colonialist: Amitav Ghosh

In ‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’, Amitav Ghosh writes that India’s forest lands have formed an internal ‘state of exception’ where normal functioning of laws is suspended.

Amitav Ghosh takes to Twitter to highlight why East India Company never went after Nepal

Author Amitav Ghosh, who has extensively explored the history of the subcontinent, points out that there is still Eurocentrism in the study of the subject.

Amitav Ghosh is the Jnanpith Award winner and climate crusader India doesn’t know it needs

Through his writings, Amitav Ghosh forces public personas to talk about climate change, toxic majoritarianism and dwindling space for free speech.

Dancing with Agha Shahid Ali: Why the poet will always be my muse

Author and poet Kamla Kapur recounts growing up with Shahid, the Phoenix in a coffin of light.

Baba Ramdev may land up in high office of India one day: Foreign Policy magazine

Magazine lists Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani in ‘Technology’ category. Other Indians on the list include Amitav Ghosh and Menaka Guruswamy.

On Camera

CJ Roy’s death raises an important question. Why isn’t there a time limit on tax raids?

Deterrence cannot mean institutional licence for an endlessly extensible raid. A search that extends across days, followed by seals and freezes that linger for weeks, begins to resemble a siege.

Land, labour, licences: From UP to Tripura, states race ahead on Centre-led deregulation push

76% of Centre’s deregulation reforms implemented across states under Phase-I of compliance reduction exercise. Several states & UTs adopted flexible land use, 3rd party inspections, labour reforms.

During Op Sindoor, hackers targeted NSE website 40 crore times in 10 minutes, Exchange CEO says

NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan was speaking at Off The Cuff event hosted by ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. He said that NSE, on average, sees 20 crore cyberattacks each day.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.