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Jnanpith-winning author Amitav Ghosh, on the violent history of the opium poppy, the ecological crisis of the Sundarbans, and giving literary voice to non-humans in his new book, Smoke and Ashes
Begusarai, 03 July (Hindustan Times). Due to unity in diversity and cultural tradition, one folk art is hidden in the land of India. The art of which has | BLiTZ
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation announced a special train package from Visakhapatnam to pilgrimages in North India.
An illustration from ‘Jungle Nama’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ecological concerns echo from ‘Jungle Nama’, Amitav Ghosh’s verse adaptation of the medieval Bengali tale about the forest goddess, Bon Bibi While researching for his 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh paid close attention to the way premodern texts are written and designed, specifically how they engage with the natural world. Among other things, the book elaborates upon two points: medieval texts across language and region have a wide-ranging engagement with n...
This cross-religious invocation stands as testimony to the inherent pluralism of this deltaic region, which is not just a confluence of rivers from the east, the west, and the north, but also a land that has witnessed the convergence of belief systems from far and wide. These are age-old practices that are well-documented and corroborated. In 1917, Rai Saheb Dineshchandra Sen, in his "Lectures delivered to the Calcutta University" asserts, "Songs of Manasa Devi are sung by professional Muhammadan minstrels in Mymensingh and other districts [of Eastern Bengal]." Unfortunately, we cannot den...