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Author Amitav Ghosh uses reincarnation and cooking to discuss climate change in Ghost-Eye
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Acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's latest book Ghost-Eye (2026) is his first novel in seven years.
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SINGAPORE – Acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh’s first novel in seven years, Ghost-Eye (2026), imagines a world where cases of reincarnation invigorate the climate movement. He reminds his sceptics: “The only environmental movements that have been successful are not founded on a traditional idea of politics.”
The 69-year-old raises the example of how a 160-year indigenous struggle culminated in the unprecedented recognition of the Whanganui River in New Zealand as a legal person in 2017.
