Amitav Ghosh authors book on climate change

Q.  The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable was authored by which well known Indian novelist?
- Published on 21 Jul 16

a. Amitav Ghosh
b. Upmanyu Chatterjee
c. VS Naipaul
d. Salman Rushdie

ANSWER: Amitav Ghosh
 
Book entitled The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable was authored by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh and was released on 12th July 2016.
  • Book addresses the challenges of representing climate change complexity in literature and responsibility of writers to document extreme reality faced by humans.
  • The inability in the level of literature, history and politics encompass the scale and violence of climate change.
  • History of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with contradictory and counterintuitive elements
  • The writer spoke of how climate change has become a personal moral reckoning rather than arena of collective action .

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