Cooking as Ecology: Memory, Tradition & The Planetary Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye

Amitav Ghosh is the critically acclaimed author of a widerange of fiction as well as non-fiction titles – including Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, The Great Derangement, Smoke and Ashes, and Wild Fictions. Ghosh’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he has been felicitated with literary awards across the globe.

In 2019, Ghosh was named one of the most important global thinkers of the past decade by Foreign Policy magazine. Thesame year, he was conferred with the Gyanpeet Award, India’s highest literary honour.

In this episode of TOI Bookmark, Ghosh talks about his latestnovel, Ghost-Eye, which has been published by HarperCollins India. Ghost-Eye presents a non-linear narrative that moves between 1960s Calcutta and 2020s USA, and blends magical realism seamlessly with its exploration of the current climate crisis.