Transcript of author's talks with cross-section of people from India, Pakistan, Nepal on the nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998.
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Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous novel, The Glass Palace, was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. Recently published there, The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.
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A scary picture,
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This review is from: Countdown (Hardcover)
This slim little volume is a study of the psychology and reality of India's and Pakistan's nuclear policies, and it is scary indeed. Ghosh begins by describing the nuclear test by India in 1999, conducted aboveground in total disregard for the safety of the people in surrounding areas. Amazingly, celebrations in the streets of towns and cities followed. Ghosh says that for these two countries the weapons are a status symbol allowing them to take a place at the table of "world powers." As he traveled and interviewed people on the subject, he found their views of the tests a mixture of fantasy and niavete. He feels India has made a tragic error in its struggle with its historical enemy--relying on nuclear weapons, India has given up its historical advantage of superior conventional forces, leaving it to defend itself with a weapon that will only invite a horrible counter-attack. Ghosh ends with a minute analysis of the aftereffects of an attack on New Delhi. Interestingly, the immediate death toll, he says, would only (only!) be in the 200,000 range, but the destruction of the infrastructure, the loss of records, and most of all the suffering of those unlucky enough to survive, would precipitate a horrible national collapse. One can only ask "Why?"
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