Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning author. He has authored, ‘The Ibis Trilogy’, ‘The Shadow Lines’, ‘The Calcutta Chromosome’, ‘The Glass Palace’ and ‘The Hungry Tide’. His essays appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times.

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The pursuit of nuclear weapons in the Subcontinent is the moral equivalent of civil war: the targets the rulers have in mind are, in the end, their own people. The

By Amitav Ghosh

/ 1 Nov 1998