![]() ![]() “There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. ![]() She is an American with Bengali lineage but someone who remembers her mother tongue solely as the language her parents quarreled in. Piya is a cetologist, who in search of the rare dolphins, Orcaella, roots for her mission to Sundarbans. ‘The Hungry Tide’ is not for a marked audience and no matter where you stay, you would know what it feels like to crush your toes in the silky mud, how the tips of your fingers feel to touch the mangrove roots and what it is like to have lived and dealt with fear. ![]() Ghosh traces some deep-rooted issues like freedom, conflict, refugees, government, and oppression in the backdrop of the lives of the characters in the book, namely, Piya, Fokir and Kanai, and Nirmal from the past, all of who appeal the unawares into the prevailing political tinges of this secluded bend of the world.īeing a native of Bengal, I have not yet visited Sundarbans, but Ghosh definitely knows where to pinch. Sweeping off your feet, and into the indefensible waters of the Sundarbans, this story takes the readers to the tide country for a voyage to the archipelago of islands of Bay of Bengal. ![]()
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