A WAR AGAINST EXCESS
Amitav Ghosh has been visiting the Sundarban forest ever since he was a child. “It’s one of the places where you can see that the earth is alive, that the earth is really Gaia, a living entity. You erosion. You see deposits being laid in front of your very eyes,” he says. This vividness that Ghosh describes is true of both the landscape and his writing of it. After two novels—The (2004) and (2019)—the author again returns to the mangrove forest Written entirely in verse, it proves Ghosh’s talent, but it also signals to the forest’s abundance. If you’re looking for stories, the Sundarban has a prodigious capacity. It is the kind of gift that keeps on giving.
