Amitav Ghosh
Volumes from 2 worlds.
2 volumes
The Calcutta Chromosome Described
L. Murugan — The Calcutta Chromosome · Amitav Ghosh
An unpublished monograph, or a hypothesis that refuses to become one: that Ross's Nobel was steered by a secret Calcutta practice whose first method is not to write anything down.
The Legend of the Gun Merchant Described
Unknown; a Bengali oral tradition, later sought in books — Gun Island · Amitav Ghosh
A Bengali merchant's tale — flight from the snake goddess Manasa, drought, ships, a land without serpents called Gun Island — that a sceptical bookseller is asked to treat as a document, and that the climate then starts to corroborate.