Murugan, who disappeared in Calcutta in 1995 the second pertains to Murugan’s obsession with the missing links in the history of malaria research the third search is that of Urmila Roy, a journalist in Calcutta in 1995 who is researching the works of Phulboni, a writer who produced a strange cycle of “Lakhan stories” that he wrote in the 1930s but suppressed thereafter. It brings together three searches: the first is that of an Egyptian clerk, Antar, working alone in a New York apartment in the early years of the twenty-first century and tracing the adventures of L. This novel has been described as “a kind of mystery thriller” ( India Today).

The Calcutta Chromosome, 1996.The Calcutta Chromosome (Picador, 1996).

The multi-generic book moves back and forth between Ghosh’s experience living in small villages and towns in the Nile Delta and his reconstruction of a Jewish trader and his slave’s lives in the eleventh century from documents from the Cairo Geniza. The cover proclaims IAAL: a ”History in the guise of a traveller’s tale”. (First published in England by Granta Books, 1992) 393 pp. His second novel focuses on the narrator’s family in Calcutta and Dhaka and their connection with an English family in London.

(First published in England by Bloomsbury Press, 1988) 246 pp. Ghosh’s first novel opens with the arrival of a child “Alu” (“potato”–for the shape of his head) in a small village and is divided into three sections: “Satwa: Reason,” “Rajas: Passion,” and “Tamas: Death.” He was also the joint winner of the Dan David Award in 2010 along with Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale. He currently lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University. The Hungry Tide won the Crossword Book Prize and his novel, Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the Indian president. Since then, he has published IAAL, The Calcutta Chromosome, and The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire done field work in Cambodia lived in Delhi and written for a number of publications. He published his first novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986, and his second, The Shadow Lines, in 1988. Ghosh has been a journalist and a novelist. The work he did there resulted in the novel In an Antique Land ( IAAL 1993).

In 1980, he went to Egypt to do field work in the fellaheen village of Lataifa. After graduating from the University of Delhi, he went to Oxford to study Social Anthropology and received a Master of Philosophy and a PhD in 1982. He grew up in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), Sri Lanka, Iran and India. Biography Image by Frederick Noronha/CC LicensedĪmitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956.

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