Fans of Amitav Ghosh’s “Ibis” trilogy have been eagerly awaiting the second novel ever since he beguiled them with his narrative powers in “The Sea of Poppies”. While the first novel took its readers through the opium fields and factories in Bihar through Calcutta’s thriving European community and international trade onto a refitted slave ship [...]
Part investigative journalism and part political commentary, Amitava Kumar’s latest book “A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb,” is a thought-provoking, incisive, and intelligent look at America’s war on terror and its linkages to terrorism in India. As two of the world’s largest democracies, both the United States and India [...]
“Shopping for Sabzi” is a debut collection of short stories by Nitin Deckha who was born in England, raised in Canada and educated in the United States. His transnational experiences are reflected in the dozen stories in this collection. Many of his South Asian characters are transnational subjects who are negotiating multiple cultural and social [...]
Atul Gawande’s list of accomplishments is stunning. He is an endocrine and general surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Associate Professsor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, a MacArthur Fellow, a contributor to The New Yorker and author of three best- selling books. His first book, “Complications”, was a [...]
Many readers know Abraham Verghese as the author of the memorable “My Own Country” about working as a doctor in eastern Tennessee. My Own Country was an NBCC finalist and 1994 best book for Time; his second work, “The Tennis Partner” was a New York Times Notable Book. “Cutting for Stone” is his first novel. [...]
