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Deltas form where rivers meet the sea. Globally, deltas produce 4% of the world’s food on just 0.5% of its land. Now many river deltas are sinking and shrinking.
Why is he still so intrigued by opium? ‘The plant has consistently out-thought, out-manoeuvred us,’ he says. ‘It s still playing a role in how history unfolds.’
The Padma Shri and Jnanpith Awardee novelist on his latest non-fiction book Smoke and Ashes , whose foundation was laid with the research for Ibis Trilogy , the far-reaching effects of opium trade and humankind s greatest challenges today.
There is an element of the unexpected in the twinning of fiction and ecology. A sense of unease of sorts exists in the pairing together of fiction, a form of narrative that is untrue, with the imminent ecological disaster, an environmental inevitability that is true.