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Author Amitav Ghosh Wins Erasmus Prize For Writings On Climate Change
Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings on climate change and its impact on humanity, especially on the Indian subcontinent.
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"Renewable Energy Mirage Often Creates Disasters": Amitav Ghosh On Landslides
Much of the discourse around climate change tends to focus on technological "megafixes" and a renewable energy push may have, ironically, contributed to the landslides in Wayanad, author Amitav Ghosh has said.
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8 Years Before Mumbai Billboard Tragedy, An Author's Warning
Eight years before a massive billboard in Mumbai crushed 14 people and injured many others during a storm, author Amitav Ghosh had warned of how the Maximum City's billboards will become "deadly projectiles" if a cyclone strikes.
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Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Shortlist Announced
Author Amitav Ghosh's "Gun Island" and Raj Kamal Jha's "The City and the Sea" are among the books contending for this year's Rabindranath Tagore Literary prize, founder of the award, Peter Bundalo announced on Friday.
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Mumbai's Extraordinary 'Concentration Of Risk' - by Amitav Ghosh
Exclusive excerpt from 'The Great Derangement' by Amitav Ghosh
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"Nation's Soul Threatened": Naseeruddin Shah, Mira Nair In Open Note On CAA
Over 300 eminent personalities, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, filmmaker Mira Nair, vocalist TM Krishna, author Amitav Ghosh and historian Romila Thapar have expressed solidarity with the students and others protesting against the CAA and NRC.
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Author Amitav Ghosh Honoured With 54th Jnanpith Award
Noted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with the Jnanpith Award for "outstanding contribution towards literature", Bharatiya Jnanpith announced on Friday.
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"Lost Beloved Elder Brother": Salman Rushdie, Others Remember VS Naipaul
British author VS Naipaul, known for his literary achievements in writing about life in countries after they suffered colonialism, has died at the age of 85 at his home in London.
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Amitav Ghosh in the Running for 2015 Man Booker International Fiction Award
Ten writers, including a first-time entry from the tiny French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, have been nominated as finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International prize for fiction writing.
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Amitav Ghosh Among 10 Finalists for International Booker Prize
Amitav Ghosh today emerged as the only Indian author among 10 finalists for this year's Man Booker International Prize for his contribution to the English language writing.
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Writer Amish Tripathi wins record $1 million advance for South Asia rights
A best-selling Indian author has won a $1 million advance for the South Asian rights to a new trilogy, the biggest such deal ever struck, his publishers said on Monday.
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Anusha Rizvi to direct 'Sea of Poppies' film
Peepli Live director Anusha Rizvi will direct the movie adaptation of Amitav Ghosh's book Sea Of Poppies.
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Author Amitav Ghosh Wins Erasmus Prize For Writings On Climate Change
Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh has won the coveted Dutch Erasmus Prize for his writings on climate change and its impact on humanity, especially on the Indian subcontinent.
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"Renewable Energy Mirage Often Creates Disasters": Amitav Ghosh On Landslides
Much of the discourse around climate change tends to focus on technological "megafixes" and a renewable energy push may have, ironically, contributed to the landslides in Wayanad, author Amitav Ghosh has said.
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8 Years Before Mumbai Billboard Tragedy, An Author's Warning
Eight years before a massive billboard in Mumbai crushed 14 people and injured many others during a storm, author Amitav Ghosh had warned of how the Maximum City's billboards will become "deadly projectiles" if a cyclone strikes.
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Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Shortlist Announced
Author Amitav Ghosh's "Gun Island" and Raj Kamal Jha's "The City and the Sea" are among the books contending for this year's Rabindranath Tagore Literary prize, founder of the award, Peter Bundalo announced on Friday.
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Mumbai's Extraordinary 'Concentration Of Risk' - by Amitav Ghosh
Exclusive excerpt from 'The Great Derangement' by Amitav Ghosh
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"Nation's Soul Threatened": Naseeruddin Shah, Mira Nair In Open Note On CAA
Over 300 eminent personalities, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, filmmaker Mira Nair, vocalist TM Krishna, author Amitav Ghosh and historian Romila Thapar have expressed solidarity with the students and others protesting against the CAA and NRC.
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Author Amitav Ghosh Honoured With 54th Jnanpith Award
Noted English writer Amitav Ghosh has been honoured with the Jnanpith Award for "outstanding contribution towards literature", Bharatiya Jnanpith announced on Friday.
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"Lost Beloved Elder Brother": Salman Rushdie, Others Remember VS Naipaul
British author VS Naipaul, known for his literary achievements in writing about life in countries after they suffered colonialism, has died at the age of 85 at his home in London.
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Amitav Ghosh in the Running for 2015 Man Booker International Fiction Award
Ten writers, including a first-time entry from the tiny French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, have been nominated as finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International prize for fiction writing.
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Amitav Ghosh Among 10 Finalists for International Booker Prize
Amitav Ghosh today emerged as the only Indian author among 10 finalists for this year's Man Booker International Prize for his contribution to the English language writing.
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Writer Amish Tripathi wins record $1 million advance for South Asia rights
A best-selling Indian author has won a $1 million advance for the South Asian rights to a new trilogy, the biggest such deal ever struck, his publishers said on Monday.
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Anusha Rizvi to direct 'Sea of Poppies' film
Peepli Live director Anusha Rizvi will direct the movie adaptation of Amitav Ghosh's book Sea Of Poppies.
