Introduction -- Climate change and environment. The Great uprooting : migration and displacement in an age of planetary crisis -- Storm of consequences -- Cyclone Nargis -- Folly in the Sundarbans? -- The town by the sea -- A tragic predicament -- Witnesses. Santanu Das and the First World War -- Abhi le Baghdad -- At 'home and ht eworld' in Iraq, 1915-1917 -- Shared sorrows : Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-Ain, 1916-1918 -- Of Fanas and forecastles : the Indian Ocean and some lost languages of the Age of Sail -- Worless pasts : the Indian exodus from Burma and the writing of The glass palace -- Travel and discovery. Confessions of a xenophile -- The mountains are high and the emperor is far away -- The Spice Islands -- Narratives. The well-travelled banyan -- 11 September 2001 -- Wild fictions -- Conversations. Provincializing Europe : a correspondence -- Imperial denial -- Storytelling and hte spectrum of the past -- Shashi Tharoor's An era of darkness -- Priya Satia's Time's monster -- Presentations. The making of In an antique land : India, Egypt and the Cairo Geniza -- Computers and spinning wheels -- The way of A.K. Ramanujan.
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