Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is a world renowned Indian author and novelist known for his works in English language. His writings often shows an amalgamation of cultures through the use of various languages. He has received numerous awards for his works and was also awarded the Padma Shri bythe Government of India. His writings are unique and contributed a lot to Indian Writing In English. The Shadow Lines, is one of such writings, a highly innovative novel which was published in the year 1988. It received the prestigious

paper titled, “DEETI - the metaphor in Amitav Ghosh’s The Sea of Poppies”, focuses on how the author, Amitav Ghosh, uses the character Deeti as a metaphor. Amitav Ghosh is a Serious historical and Fictional writer born in Calcutta in a Bengali family. His Father, Shailendra Chandra Ghosh a Military officer. Wife Deborah Baker, The author of Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company. Ghosh became a faculty at Queens College, New

With Indo-Pak relations straining from worse to worst, the 1988 novel, The Shadow Lines, of Amitav Ghosh gets more relevance as its major focus is on the partition inflicted psyches. A nation draws boundary to separate its people from other nations. But, in the case of India and Pakistan the borders are not strong enough to separate people who are the progenies of the same culture and history. How can one divide a nation which has a common past, culture, history and heritage? In fact the makers

The Novels of Amitav Ghosh: A Perspective Study Synopsis Deepa Bavanasi Indo-Anglian literature forms an integral part of English and it has attained a distinct place in the literary landscape in the literary landscape of India. It is a synthesis of two great literary traditions-Indian and Anglian. It is an offshoot of colonial rule and in more or less a synthesis of two great cultural traditions. For the past two decades it has grown from strength to strength and acquired a new change and life

The nature and its impact on the writer can be seen through this novel. Ghosh‟s eccentric vision is evident in all his works as he envisions the world as a composite, interconnected whole. In The Circle of Reason, the protagonist, Nachiketa Bosealias Alu, flees across places, countries and continents to show cross cultural connections

see the true effects of this seeming victory, as climate change becomes a more threatening and inescapable force. In the novel The Hungry Tide, author, Amitav Ghosh, uses a cross between narration and environmentalism as a

The second section Rajas: Passion starts with Alu’s arrival in al-Ghazira, a fictitious country in the Middle East with its interesting blend of luck seekers from diverse nations. Radha Krishna aptly opines, “Rajas has an outward movement… Rajas is impurity which leads to activity” (Radha Krishna, 1996: 317). Balram depicts Passion as “springing from the simple and the everyday” (50). Alu, the central character in The Circle of Reason migrates from Bengal to a Gulf country al-Ghazira and to El-oued

Hemmingway and Amitav Ghosh, both having completely different writing styles and ideas, seem to have an underlying similarity in how they view leadership and heroism. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh both show internal battles and undeniable fate within characters throughout each novel. In The Old Man and the Sea Hemmingway uses Santiago, the old Cuban fisherman, to represent internal transformation, renewed life, triumph, and defeat. Ghosh also represents

The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh explores different storytelling forms and complicates the picture of pre- and postcolonial South Asian identity in his fourth novel The Glass Palace1. His ambitious epic tells “the stories of a cast of characters, royal working – clogs, and bourgeois Indians, Bengalis, and Burmese – as they grapple with their sense of place and self while violent historical events reshape twentieth century Burma and India2”. Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is an evocation

Borders and Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Postcolonial Study “The Shadow lines” is an award winning novel by Amitav Ghosh. The historical events like the Swadeshi Movement, Second World War, partition of India and communal riots of 1963-64 which took place in Calcutta and Dhaka are all mentioned. The concept of boundaries is an important one for the postcolonial world writer’s .This novel discusses these lines across cultures and boundaries and tries to study them. These borders