In this episode Tara Khandelwal and Michelle D’costa chat with Amitav Ghosh about how he highlights the reality of climate change through his novels and non-fiction books. “Climate change is a form of ecological violence,” he says.
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You’ll learn:
- How the story of the nutmeg shows the effects of colonization on the environment
- How to incorporate your activism in bestselling books
- How to write compelling stories
About Amitav
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford, has taught at a number of institutions and written for many magazines. The first novel in the Ibis trilogy, Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. In 2015, Amitav Ghosh was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize.