The villagers of the Sundarban are extremely poor. Poverty, however, is not the biggest of their worries. Human settlements border the marshy forests of the Sundarban. The swamps are home to poisonous snakes and man-eating tigers on land and crocodiles in water. Often, the villagers cross creeks, canals, and rivers to move into the villages Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer born in 1956 in Kolkata, India. Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied at the Doon School and later completed his doctorate at the Oxford University. Ghosh has authored both, fiction and non-fiction works. His books mainly focus on colonialism, people of Read more…