Yesterday I lost my mother. Her death was not Covid related but it's because of the pandemic that I couldn't be with her, in Kolkata. A cruel blow at a cruel time.
This is how I'd like to remember her.
Anjali Ghosh, 1931 - 2020.
Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh
@GhoshAmitav
Author most recently of 'Smoke and Ashes'.
Joined January 2012
- "What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read.
- At a time when everything seems to be getting worse everywhere, it is heartening to see young Indians rejecting majoritarianism and affirming their faith in diversity, democracy and pluralism. nyti.ms/2EFSy88
- This could be the most important thing happening in the world right now: India's first mass protest in response to an ongoing climate-related agrarian crisis. Of vital significance in a region where more than a billion people will face catastrophe.Farmers all over India have started to arrive in Delhi today - Adivasi farmers from Yavatmal, Maharashtra; farmers from Sundarbans, West Bengal.. Their demand is for a special session of parliament to discuss the agrarian crisis. @PARInetwork @LongMarch2Delhi #DilliChalo
- The hounding of Arundhati Roy is absolutely unconscionable. She is a great writer and has a right to her opinion. There needs to be an international outcry about the case that has been brought against her for something she said a decade ago.Sharing this piece I wrote in October. I really, really hope the international backlash to such a hounding of someone so cherished and celebrated like Arundhati Roy makes the Modi regime walk back. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
- In 1936, Nehru wrote, in a letter to Lord Lothian: 'nothing astonishes me so much as the way the British people manage to combine their material interests with their moral fervour; how they proceed on the irrefutable presumption that they are always doing good to the world...
- It's not just about climate change; it's also about a disastrous model of 'development' being implemented without any thought being given to the risks.Terrible footages coming out of #Sikkim of the 1200 MW #ChungthangDam being breached. Precisely why many have warned about the #Himalayan zone not being suitable for big dams & heavy #infrastructure. But a certain model of 'development' burries such cautions, putting all at risk!
00:00 - Just learned that the Dutch Green Party is introducing legislation that will put an outright ban on fossil fuel lobbying and restrict fossil fuel advertising. This could be a big step forward.
- So this just happened... needless to say, I am delighted and hugely honored! It's an incredible privilege to follow in the footsteps of legends like @Trevornoah, A.S. Byatt and Barbara Ehrenreich. More here: erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates/a…
- Really shocking how much damage a single scaremongering article by the @nytimes has done to journalism in India. And they were warned that this would happen.
- Can't stop thinking about the injured and terrorized students at #JNU . What will this do to their view of the world and their trust in institutions? Shocking.
- "...colonialism was a human tragedy with few parallels in recorded history."
- Over the last ten years the Indian govt made many grandiose claims about its environmental record. But it was all greenwashing. In reality India "ranked last in the world i.e. 180 out of 180 countries on the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)." The actual record is well
- A really exceptional piece by Arundhati Roy. She expresses as no one else can the pain, anger, grief and outrage that everyone I know is feeling right now. Must read.Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’ theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/…
