Amitav Ghosh's latest novel Ghost-eye begins in 1969 with the Guptas, a vegetarian Marwari family in Calcutta, at their wits' end. Out of the blue, their three-year-old daughter Varsha demands fish ...

Amitav Ghosh’s new novel Ghost Eye is foremost a love letter to fish — first celebrated in the deepest Bengali sense, culinarily, before being mourned ecologically. In a wealthy strictly vegetarian ...