Amitav Ghosh

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Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), one of the finest Indian authors writing in the English language.

He was educated at The Doon School, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University and Oxford University, where he was awarded D. Phil in social anthropology. His latest work of fiction, The Hungry Tide was published in April 2004. The Shadow Lines(1990), In An Antique Land (1994), The Circle of Reason (1986), The Calcutta Chromosome(1995), and The Glass Palace(2000) are his other novels. Ghosh also has three works of non-fiction to his credit. They are Countdown (on India's nuclear policy) The Imam and the Indian (a large collection of essays on different themes such as fundamentalism, history of the novel, egyptian culture and literature) and Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma.

External links

A site dedicated exclusively to Amitav Ghosh