A profile of Amitav Ghosh by Devarakshanam Govinden (via):
Crossing borders is something that comes easily to Ghosh. And he is a writer who crosses many different types of borders.
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If Ghosh is the wanderer, the peripatetic writer par excellence, crossing different types of borders and remapping the world, this is not surprising. The sweep across national and regional borders and boundaries, across separate geographical spaces is, of course, close to the bone for Ghosh. Born in 1956 in Calcutta, Ghosh grew up in East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh. Ghosh’s father was part of the diplomatic corps and through this he was also able to sojourn in Sri Lanka and Iran.
The profile covers only the fiction of Amitav Ghosh, unfortunately. Ghosh transcended some borders in his non-fictional writing too, especially in his Dancing in Cambodia, and Imam and the Indian. Any case, take a look!
