Amitav Ghosh's 'Jungle Naama' released as an audiobook

Amitav Ghosh's 'Jungle Naama' released as an audiobook

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Category : Miscellaneous Published on: September 25 2021

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·       A poem adaptation of an episode of Bon Bibi Ki Katha and a story popular in the villages of the Sundarbans, "Jungle Naama", composed by Amitav Ghosh, has now been released as an audiobook with music and voice by US-based Ali Sethi.

·       Amitav Ghosh is the first English language writer to be awarded the Jnanpith Award.

·       Ghosh collaborated with artist Salman Toor to retell the legend of Bon Bibi, Shah Jongoli and Dokhin Rai, which also appears in his novel The Hungry Tide (2004).

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