Amitav Ghosh's nonfiction book, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was published in the US by the University of Chicago Press and in the UK by John Murray in 2021. The Nutmeg's Curse takes us back to a greener world and strides from there to our present, a journey described with scientific data, and historical and environmental analyses and insights. Ghosh shows how, after the colonial powers invaded, western traders and overlords exploited the natural environment of the islands as well as the indigenous populations of Banda. Ghosh demonstrates a link between our present-day climate catastrophe and the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. An apt successor to The Great Derangement, Ghosh's previous nonfiction book on climate change, The Nutmeg's Curse is an inquiry into these bewildering times that assumes the shape of a parable seeking to answer the question how we have got here.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 22, 2022 17:00 UTC