Meeting Amitabh Ghosh
Don't doubt reality..it's him For decades I didn’t read any serious literature, for that matter I hardly read any literature. Most English and Bengali classics I finished by then (that was what I thought), encountered only thrillers near at hand and got disenchanted. I sampled the state-of-art Bengali literature religiously for a few years by going through the leading Bengali literary magazines. Ultimately I had to give up – no more, no more. The times must have changed terribly for the worse when no further worthwhile literature is being written anymore – I concluded. Many years later by sheer chance I chanced upon The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. I had heard Amitav’s name as a renowned writer, that’s all. Casually I started reading again after a long long time. The beginning felt a little dull, but I carried on. At that moment I didn’t have any other compulsions. Slowly the storyline tightened up, the small chapters, interleaved events gradually hastened o...