A mitav Ghosh was born in Kolkata and grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He is the most acclaimed writer of all time. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. He is the author of a multitude of books starting from the Ibis trilogy-‘Sea of Smoke’ River of Poppies and ‘Flood of Fire. Apart from this, he is also the author of the Circle of Reason and Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land & Dancing in Cambodia. One of his book on climate change The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable a work of nonfiction appeared in the year 2006. Some of his other books are The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. They are considered to be literary masterpieces and gems of Indian English literature. In the year 2007, this prolific writer was awarded Padma Shri by the Government Of India. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. Taking note of his literary achievements...
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