Amitav ghosh biography of mahatma
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and Chris Merrill, versifier, traveler folk tale author illustrate The Thespian of Doves: Ceremony, Expedi • [Mahatma Gandhi’s Autobiography, first published in book form in and , had sold 50, copies in Gujarati alone, reports the Translator in the preface to the ‘second revised edition’. When we also consider the other Indian languages and foreign languages it has been translated into, the work is arguably the biggest best-seller from India, rivalled only by the astronomical sales of the Gita from Gita Press. • Amitav Ghosh recently visited LSE to talk about his latest book Flood of Fire.Ankita Mukhopadhyay attended the event and here offers an overview of the themes highlighted in the readings and through the Q&A session. On 29 March, braving the rain and willingly sacrificing their short lunch hour, students flocked to listen to Amitav Ghosh’s talk about his new book, Flood of Fire. Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor in the Anthropology department of LSE and Director of LSE’s new South Asia Centre, introduced Dr Ghosh. Banerjee noted it was a personal pleasure to invite Amitav Ghosh to LSE, as she credited her initial training in Social Anthropology to Ghosh, who taught her at the Delhi School of Economics. She described Amitav Ghosh as a historian and anthropologist, not only by training but because his novels have a historian’s eye for detail and an anthropologist’s empathy for the voice of the ‘other’. The main presentation began with a short introductory video shot in Calcutta, where the book begins. Flood and Fire is the third in the Ibis Trilogy and based on a forgotten war – the First Opium War. Colonial India’s largest export was opium, the largest importer of this op
The Autobiography has influenced more people compared to any other book Gandhi penned; it has shaped the minds of world readers and thus also world history. However, the reading is often done in good faith, because there are two matters that come in the way. Firstly, its translation, especially into English, was done in weekly instalments amid the hectic schedule of a freedom fighter, and there are notable divergences from the original in Gujarati. Secondly, there is no explanation of the context, identity of some personalities and background of some events remain puzzling – unless the reader is prepared to go further and read secondary literature which is vast enough to fill many libraries.
The new ‘Critical Edition’, introduced with noted by Gandhi scholar Tridip Suhrud and published by Penguin, takes up this formidable challenge Discovering the fire: Amitav Ghosh on history, language and his latest book