Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning author. Some of his recent titles include The Ibis Trilogy – Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire; The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. His essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times.

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The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the Subcontinent is the moral equivalent of civil war: the targets the rulers have in mind are, in the end, their own people.

Nov 01, 1998

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