Amitav Ghosh on reincarnation cases, near-death experiences and a haunting Kasauli night
In “Amitav Ghosh on Ghosts, Memory & Rebirth” with literary critic Mandira Nayar, writer Amitav Ghosh speaks to The Tribune about his new book Ghost-Eyed, a sweeping story set between Calcutta where he grew up and Brooklyn where he lives now. He revisits his own literary landscapes bringing back characters in The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide. The book begins with Varsha, a three-year-old girl born in a Jain family demanding to eat fish because she remembered her previous life. Evocative, it is a love letter to food—of memory conjured up by flavour. Based on the mountain of evidence of children born with memories of a previous life lived, Amitav talks about what is unexplainable by science, about the prescience of writers and of the memories that food holds and the central question of our time—the climate crisis. #AmitavGhosh #NearDeathExperience #Reincarnation #MysteryStories #Kasauli #ParanormalTalks #AuthorTalk #IndianAuthors #LiteratureEvent #SpiritualExperiences #LifeAfterDeath #BookTalk #EerieEncounter #Storytelling #MindAndSoul #PhilosophyTalk #CampusEvent #ThoughtProvoking #IndiaEvents #TalksAndLectures
