Amitav Ghosh Essays

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Sea of Poppies

A major theme of the novel Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is imprisonment. The novel explores the lives of many different characters on the eve of the opium wars. Over the course of the novel, many characters feel a variety of forms of...

College

Sea of Poppies

To take care of another human being-this was something Neel had before thought of doing, not even with his own son, let alone a man of his own age, a foreigner. All he knew of nurture was the tenderness that had been lavished on him by his own...