Guest: Amitav Ghosh is an award winning novelist and essayist. In 2007 he was awarded India’s highest civilian award the Padma Shri. He is the author of several books including Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Gun Island, and his latest, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.