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How do you fight an enemy who fights from neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?
The word anthrax comes from the same root as anthracite, a variety of coal.
“If you’re in command, it’s always your fault.”
“Burma is a golden land,”
Who can judge a person’s patriotism except those in whose name he claims to act—his compatriots?
In the five years it took me to write The Glass Palace I read hundreds of books, memoirs, travelogues, gazetteers, articles and notebooks, published and unpublished; I travelled thousands of miles, visiting and revisiting, so far as possible, all the settings and locations that figure in this novel; I sought out scores of people in India, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.
AMITAV GHOSH was born in Calcutta of Burmese parents and spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and northern India.
