Hello 2025: Six recently-published Indian nonfiction books to welcome a new year with
Amitav Ghosh’s essays on nature and literature, Pankaj Mishra’s book on the genocide in Gaza, a cultural history of Karnataka, and more.
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Wild Fiction: Essays, Amitav Ghosh
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary writings on subjects he has dwelled on in the last 25 years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the manner in which we occupy them, are a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.
From the significance of the commodification of the clove to the diversity of the mangrove forests in Bengal and the radical fluidity of multilingualism, Wild Fictions is a refutation of imperial violence, a fascinating exploration of the fictions we weave to absorb history, and a reminder of the importance of sensitivity and empathy.
The World After Gaza, Pankaj Mishra
For the last 75 years, the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis has been understood in the West as the greatest atrocity – the ultimate demonstration of humankind’s capacity for evil. However, at the same time, for most people around the world – the “darker peoples”, in WEB Du Bois’ words – the main historical memory is that of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the 20th century is decolonisation – freedom from the white man’s world.
The World After Gaza interrogates the violence in the Middle East in the context of these two duelling...
