LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
A Tribute to an Ex-Era of Globalization

Daisy, Ph.D.

‘If there is a distinctive genre known as Indian Writing in English, then Amitav Ghosh is perhaps its most scholarly practitioner. Ghosh is a traveler in the physical as well as the metaphysical, a writer of formidable learning and intelligence’. (The Shadow Links)

Amitav Ghosh and His Works

Amitav Ghosh, the contemporary literary master and a writer concerned with India’s place in larger international cultural networks, has been winning prestigious awards practically since he began to write. Right from his debut novel The Circle of Reason (1986) to Sea of Poppies (2008) there is not a single novel which didn’t get an award. The Indian Government has also bestowed on him one of India’s highest honours, Padma Shri award in 2007. His classic style of weaving exhilarating narratives with a bit of pedagogy is what lends his writings their unmistakable appeal. He weaves indo-nostalgic elements in his unique and personal topics enriched with heavier themes.

River of Smoke

Ghosh’s latest (seventh) novel, River of Smoke, is the second in his proposed ‘Ibis Trilogy’. The two Novels Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke are set in and around the Indian Ocean just prior to the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century. Sea of Poppies took us along the poppy fields of the Ganges where opium is grown and processed, while River of Smoke explores the streets of China where the opium is sold. But the amazing thing is that both of these are individual books that can be read on their own.

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Daisy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, BPSM Girls’ College
BPS Women University
Khanpur Kalan (Sonipat)
Haryana-131305
India
daisynehra@gmail.com
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