Passage to India

Amitav Ghosh is a novelist, a journalist, a star among postcolonial writers. He’s a child of post-Independence India who sees all too clearly the dangers of empire — both in the past, in its indelible effect on present-day India; and in the present, in the Bush Administration’s war in Iraq. US news coverage of India seems to focus on outsourcing and economic globalization; Ghosh is headed back to India, and he’ll show us the full postcolonial Indian reality — the political, religious, social, and environmental changes in this country of 1 billion souls.

Guest List

• Amitav Ghosh, author of (among others): The Glass Palace, The Shadow Lines, and most recently, The Hungry Tide.A series of 3 post-tsunami articles in The Hindu: “Overlapping Faults”, “No Aid Needed”, and “The Town By The Sea” [with thanks to Robert Birnbaum of Identity Theory for pointing these out]
• Amardeep Singh, teaches postcolonial literature, among other things, at Lehigh University in PAhis blog: Amardeep Singh
• Dilip D’Souza, journalist and blogger (his blog: Death Ends Fun)
• Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin; focuses on women’s rights in South Asia