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Chhabra, Aseen
India Abroad
05-13-2005
Two 21st century people - an Indian-American marine biologist and a city
slicker translator - in the timeless Sundarbans of India. Where the tide
determines life and death. Where man-eating tigers and crocodiles roam.
Amitav Ghosh's latest novel The Hungry Tide, which was released in the US
this month, is a goose bump-inducing story on the shadow lines of fact and
fiction.

Last month I bought a copy of Amitav Ghosh's new book The Hungry Tide at a
bookstore in New Delhi. The book opens with one of the protagonists, Kanai
Dutt, a New Delhi-based translating ...

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