A Critical Appreciation of Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh is a major contemporary Indian English novelist and winner of many prestigious prizes and
his works have been analyzed as illustrations of postmodern and postcolonial writing. Amitav Ghosh
beautifully shares his real life experience and knowledge of history and interconnects with the
contemporary world. His works includes The Circle of Reason (1986),The Shadow Lines (1988),The
Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2005), Sea of
Poppies (2008),River of Smoke (2011) and some other non-fictions. Commenting on the position of Amitiv
Ghosh in the Indian English Fiction, Anup Benivwal writes “witnessed an effervescence of a new
generation of creative talents – Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Alan Sealy, Upamanyu
Chatterjee, Shashi Taroor … who virtually revolutionized and re plotted the literary and cultural map of
India. (1)