The Hungry Tide
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Between the sea and the plains of Bengal lies an immense archipelago of islands. Here, for hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers and the crocodiles that rule there, to eke out a precarious existence from the mud.The settlers of the Sundarbans believe that anyone without a pure heart who ventures into the watery labyrinth will never ret….Read More
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