discuss the observation of amitabh ghosh regarding books in 300 words
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Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and was educated at the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun. He grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. His contemporaries at Doon included author Vikram Seth and historian Ram Guha.[3]
While at school, he regularly contributed fiction and poetry to The Doon School Weekly (then edited by Seth) and founded the magazine History Times along with Guha.[4][5][6]
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 British social anthropologist Peter Lienhardt.[7] The thesis, undertaken in the Faculty of Anthropology and Geography, was entitled "Kinship in relation to economic and social organization in an Egyptian village community" and submitted in 1982.[8]
Ghosh's 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 returned to India to begin working on the Ibis trilogy which includes Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2015).
He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007.[9]
In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[10] In 2015 Ghosh was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow