charactersketch of amitav ghosh from the chapter the ghat of the only world
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A serious tale regarding friendship and commitment where one friend has to fill after another's friend’s death.
Story is regarding friendship between the writer Amitav Ghosh and poet Agha Shahid Ali.
They has met not so long before though their bonding seems same since childhood.
Some friendships may not last long but impressions they put on one another may go through all global barriers.
Shahid Ali and Amitav both of them live in Manhattan, USA.
Amitav knows Shahid from his college days as both was students from Delhi University but their friendship happened few months before through a common friend.
Shahid a impressive poet from land of Kashmir and his collection of poems the Country without a Post Office had an intense impact on Amitav.
Once Amitav used two lines from his collection in a newspaper article.
25 of April 2001 Shahid confirms the news of his coming death on account of brain tumor.
In that meeting Shahid told Amitav to write story upon him after his death.
Amitav consoles him whenever he meets Shahid and Amitav takes notes in notebook.
Amitav explains that Shahid being Kashmiri was different kind of person.
He wasn’t a religious fanatic but instead he built little temple at his house.
Shahid and Amitav had some things in common for example cooking and peculiar non-veg dishes.
Shahid lives in USA but his mind stays in Kashmir where guardian of his lives.
During summer he went there to spend time alone with parents.
His last wish to die in Kashmir as he seemed firm on it but afterwards it takes a lot formalities and paperback as he gives up idea of moving to Kashmir to spend there till death.
He tells he sees in sleep and imagination that he is flying over "Ghat of the Only World" i.e. Kashmir.
This story shows "The Ghat of the Only World" which depicts Shahid’s homeland Kashmir.
Shahid character is one of middle of the story, ""The Ghat of the one and only world, which is done by ""Amitav Ghosh"".
This author was very shoking withhow shahid works.
The country without any post office, had powerful impression on him.
His writing was very poetic, discipliend, engaged and deeply forward.
Shahid was very fond of nature and food.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 to a Bengali Hindu family.
His contemporaries at The Doon School included author Vikram Seth and Ram Guha.
After Doon, he received degrees from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, and Delhi School of Economics.
He then won the Inlaks Foundation scholarship to complete a D. Phil. in social anthropology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, under the supervision of Peter Lienhardt.
His first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.
Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) and a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company.
They have two children, Lila and Nayan.
He has been a fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum.
In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative literature. He has also been a visiting professor at the English department of Harvard University since 2005.
Ghosh subsequently returned to India began working on the Ibis trilogy which includes Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2013).