Outlook Talks | Renowned Author Amitav Ghosh In Conversation With Vineetha Mokkil
Renowned Indian writer Amitav Ghosh was awarded the 2024 Erasmus Prize for his powerful writing on climate change. Ghosh’s 2004 novel, The Hungry Tide, set in the Sundarbans, was one of the early works of fiction by an Indian writer to chronicle the continuing saga of environmental degradation. His recently released collection, Wild Fictions, features essays written over the last 25 years in which he bears witness to a crucial rupture of time. Amitav Ghosh is in conversation with Outlook's assistant editor Vineetha Mokkil. He talks about the reasons for the planetary crisis and the need to take action without giving in to despair. He points out that young people have much greater awareness of what is happening than people of his generation or the generation in between. They realise that they have been sold a bill of goods. The world they thought they were coming into is not what they imagined. So they engage with the world, think about it, and some of them write about it or create art about it.
