CAN THE NUTMEG SPEAK?
Nov 13, 2021
2 minutes
—Suryapratim Roy
The Great Derangement—Amitav Ghosh’s earlier celebrated essay on climate change—the phenomenon is crisply explored through stories, history and politics. The Nutmeg’s Curse, in contrast, is ambulatory. In tracing the story of the nutmeg, Ghosh talks us through colonial genocide, eco-fascism, military emissions, philosophy of science. All the anecdotes and historical detail are amassed
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