One of the most interesting aspects of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) is the convergence of folklore, nature, and the complex realities of environmental conservation. The novel’s setting is the mangrove-rich Sunderbans, “the country of the eighteen tides”—a vast region at the border of India and Bangladesh.
Q. When did Ghosh born?
July 11, 1956 (age 64 years)
Q. When was the Hungry Tide published?
2004
Q. What is the name of Amitav Ghosh last novel?
Gun Island
Q. What is the name of Amitav Ghosh first novel?
The Circle of Reason
Q. Who is Amitabha Ghosh?
Amitabha Ghosh is an Indian researcher, administrator and educator. He is an Emeritus Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India, of which he was elected a Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow in 2012.
Q. Is Amitav Ghosh a diasporic writer?
Ghosh was a prolific Indian Bengali writer belongs to the Diasporic community. All his novels influenced by the effect of loneliness. The immigration and alienation as a fact holds a great place in Diasporic writings. All his novels explores the sense of nostalgia.
Q. For which work Amitav Ghosh got jnanpith award?
contribution to literature
Q. When was Amitav Ghosh the visiting professor at Harvard?
February 2004
Q. Who won the first Jnanpith award?
Sankara Kurup
Q. Which two awards did Amitav Ghosh win for his novel The Shadow Lines?
Awards. The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award & the Ananda Puraskar.
Q. Who is the narrator of the shadow lines?
The Narrator remains anonymous throughout the novel. He recounts stories from his life as he grows up in Calcutta, studies in Delhi, and visits London. He is very close with his uncle, Tridib, and his cousin, Ila.
Q. Who is tridib in the shadow lines?
Tridib is the narrator’s uncle. He’s about twenty years older and is a very skilled storyteller. He often tells the narrator stories about the year he lived in London with the Prices.
Q. What led to the riots of 1964 in the novel The Shadow Lines?
In 1964, in the heart of the city of Dhaka, Tridib is brutally murdered. He is a main character in Amitav Ghosh’s renowned novel The Shadow Lines. His death, along with many others, comes with what is known today as the East Pakistan riots. The riots got worse, and so did the pseudo-nationalism.
Q. How does a class polity play in Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines?
How does class politics play in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines? Still, a certain class phenomenon can be attributed to the grandmother too, as the characterization make her a product and onlooker to the class politics.
Q. How did tridib influence the narrator?
Tridib taught him in childhood to see things clearly without the shadows of inhabitations or illusions. A strange bond exists between the two. The young narrator considers it his ‘unique privilege to understand Tridib. ‘ In this sense, Tridib is also a narrator.
Q. What does the lines in the novel The Shadow Lines represent?
These shadow lines are what they try to base their identity on. They are to them the signifying acts that construct notions of discrete identity. The grandmother, too, bases her identity as an Indian, as distinct from a Bangladeshi, on the lines that separate India and Bangladesh.
Q. How are maps and borders used as symbols in the shadow lines?
In The Shadow Lines, maps and borders symbolize the often arbitrary nature of countries. Someone can “draw another line somewhere,” and suddenly there’s another separate country or territory. The mutability of boundaries might be further symbolized in Tridib’s trans-cultural tales and in London’s immigrant communities.
Q. Who is the main character of the story a shadow?
Tridib
Q. How does the shadow lines provide a critique of war and violence?
Therefore, when the state has used an organized and apparently ‘justified’ form of violence to attain its goal against another state, people of at least the lesser damaged nations come to believe that they have actually won the war. …
Q. How did May price view tridib’s death?
Though she’s correct, Tridib dies when he gets out of the car to protect her and his great-uncle Jethamoshai. May lives the rest of her life wondering if she killed Tridib, though she eventually comes to belief that Tridib sacrificed himself for her.
Q. What is the theme of the novel The Shadow Lines?
The Shadow Lines centers on the relationship between freedom and how people try to achieve that freedom. In this way, the novel seeks to parse out the meanings of different kinds of freedom and how one’s perception of freedom influences their identity.
Q. How might Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh be considered a Post Colonial?
The Shadow Lines is a novel, which deals with post-colonialism impact on society and culture; the riots, cultural deviations, migration and its consequences, political turbulence, religious clashes, identity crisis, lack of belongingness and more so.
Q. What are the post colonial elements?
Post-colonial theory looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial hegemony (Western colonizers controlling the colonized). Therefore, a post-colonial critic might be interested in works such as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe where colonial “…
