The celebrated Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh has a university background in Social Anthropology. He is best known for the award winning ecologically themed novel The Hungry Tide (2004) set in the archipelago of the Sundebarans, as well as his trilogy of historical fiction about the Opium Wars and colonialism, The Ibis Trilogy (2008-2015). He recently came out with a fable about the Anthropocene called The Living Mountain (2022). In his non-fiction masterpiece The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016), he discusses the problem of representing climate change in realist fiction and in culture at large. His book The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021) deepens his critical analysis of colonialism and discusses how its dark legacy haunts our world in the age of environmental disasters.