Author Amitav Ghosh has gifted us several unputdownable reads like the Calcutta Chromosome, The Hungry Tide, Jungle Nama and the recent The Nutmeg’s Curse. The narratives presented by Ghosh grow on you, make you delve and ponder. But did you know the Jnanpith awardee is also a keen photographer? He documents life with a reflective understanding of a writer and a storyteller. His Instagram handle is a photo-lover’s paradise with dispatches from all over the world. Here are a few…
‘Sea of Poppies’
If one goes back to the first few posts of Ghosh on Instagram, the keen eye towards the subtle, serene and profound is hard to miss in the author’s way of seeing life.
Ode to Neruda
Dispatches from the ground by an author is incomplete without such moments, isn't it?
Food stories
Can foodstagram get cooler than this? The author, who also seems to be a complete foodie, keeps sharing what's on his plate with nuanced anecdotes, giving a glimpse of various delectables from across the world.
Fables from a faraway land
Amitav Ghosh’s master craftsmanship in painting pictures of faraway lands through his photography are stories in themselves that makes the heart yearn to pack, book and go.
Fables from the faraway land, cont.
What would we not do to be on this gondola humming 'Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahani'....
An author’s paradise
An author at a bookstore for a book event? What can be be more apt than that? Be it “At the 'L’Arbre à lettres' bookshop” in Paris or the several other iconic bookstores the author visits — we wish we were there among the audience too!
Art, artist, author
Sharing glimpses of artworks from around the world, Ghosh’s social media handle makes it hard to stop scrolling. Only an author can describe an artwork as “It unfolds as a narrative as you walk along it.”
