First, these essays embody a diligent critique of modernity's anthropocentrism that tends to elevate humans above all other ...

Amitav Ghosh’s new collection of non-fiction, ‘Wild Fictions’, is a jumble of bewilderingly disparate pieces, marred by ...

From the significance of the commodification of the clove to the diversity of the mangrove forests in Bengal and the radical ...

In the opening essay of Wild Fictions, which looks at migration through an altogether original prism, Amitav Ghosh observes that illegal immigration is often not by the destitute, but usually by ...

It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical music, that ...

By Kunal Bose  One doesn’t have to be empowered by knowledge of science to feel and see the deterioration of environment all round. The recent wildfires in California that once again destroyed ...

I don’t believe in the hope and doom binary. There is a certain future coming up that’s going to be thoroughly disruptive. It won’t be anything like the world that we knew or the one that we ...

The process of curating Wild Fictions was deeply reflective, almost like sifting through sediments of time to uncover fragments that resonate with the present. The essays, correspondence, and ...

The pieces in this collection are about a wide variety of subjects, yet there is one thread that runs through most of them: of bearing witness to a rupture of time, of chronicling the passing of an ...