peelibilli (@peelibilli) tweeted at 8:58 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
@sunitanar @ipshita77 @GhoshAmitav @PenguinIndia Will you make this available online for those who missed it? [ASKS THE ABOVE TWEET. HERE IS PART OF IT.]
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It is apparent that Dr Ghosh has one message for audiences inside India, especially in regard to how he feels modern novelists in India are NOT writing about climate change themes even when climate change impacts event are right outside their doors and he asks why and chastises them gently for being lazy apethetic writers ... while his message (for the same book of essays) when he goes to America in September for the USA launch there will be to congratulate Western novelists like Nathaniel Rich and Kim Stanley Robinson and Barbara Kingsolver and Meg Little Reilly and Sarah Holding and Paolo Bacigalpi and hundreds more in the UK and Australia as well for tackling climate change themes in their current novels. So Dr Ghosh is speaking to two audiences: one in India and one in the West. He has to tailor his remarks for each author in a sensitive way. This twitter event below was in India so he still says there are no climate theme novels in the literary world, when in fact, he knows full well by now that the cli-fi genre has taken the US and the UK and Australia by storm. But he cannot say that inside India for some reason. Read on:
Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:30 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
A few minutes from now, Ms. @Sunitanar will be in conversation with Mr. @GhoshAmitav about his new book of essays on climate. Live updates #TGDlaunch
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A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on stage with Indian journalist Sunita Narain
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CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:48 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
All set for #tgdlaunch with @GhoshAmitav and Sunita Narain #climatechange #books https://t.co/ZAchmKkCMX
CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:53 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@sunitanar and @GhoshAmitav arrive now for the book launch event #tgdlaunch @down2earthindia https://t.co/s643iq2flK
Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:58 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
How is it that literature is not talking about #climate change? asks @GhoshAmitav at the launch of The Great Derangement. #TGDlaunch
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CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Today we are powerless because we are not asking our leaders to take action says @sunitanar @GhoshAmitav #tgdlaunch https://t.co/jgRDukG9MG
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:02 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Dealing with climate issues is considered fringe activity, @GhoshAmitav tells @sunitanar at #TGDLaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:04 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
There's complete silence in imaginative discourse when it comes to #climatechange issues, says author @GhoshAmitav #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:10 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Systematically, we have turned away from imagining #climatechange impacts, says Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:11 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
When the cyclone comes for you, it is not going to pick between rich and poor - @GhoshAmitav at #TGDLaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:15 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We are beginning to close the circles of conversations when it comes to #climatechange, says @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:17 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
The systematic silencing of non-partisan voices on #climatechange is a reality, says @GhoshAmitav in conversation with @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:20 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
People don't realise how much does Paris Climate talks move away from climate justice issue, says @GhoshAmitav #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:31 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We have universalised a model of lifestyle that cannot work for the majority in the face of #climatechange, says @GhoshAmitav #TGDlaunch
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दि लास्ट पफ् (@DesiUvach) tweeted at 10:33 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Elites weren't worried when that lifestyle was restricted to few. Now that all demand it, elites sermonize us @GhoshAmitav
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Dan Bloom (@do_you_cli_fi_) tweeted at 10:39 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Dr Ghosh is wrong here. Maybe in his native India but in the West there is a vibrant ''cli-fi'' genre https://t.co/tntilwQ4Pl
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:42 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
#climatechange has started making its way into political discourse of India, says @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
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Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:59 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Scientists have to work with society and explain extreme weather events to sensitise people about #climatechange says @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
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Jon Queen (@jonmckeequeen) tweeted at 11:46 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Climate Change Is This Generation's Biggest Threat: Amitav Ghosh - The Quint: The QuintClimate Change Is This... https://t.co/rcbIvPhqDo
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Penguin Books India (@PenguinIndia) tweeted at 10:18 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
If the Americans are saying they are controlling climate change, I live on a different planet.
~SN [SAYS Sunita Narain ] WTF? [Do I detect an anti-America prejudice/hatred there?]
#TheGreatDerangement
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Vaishali Mathur (@mathur_vaishali) tweeted at 10:16 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narain talk about the greatest derangement stares us in the face #environment @PenguinIndia https://t.co/NdQlVJZGd8
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Sanjay Sipahimalani (@SanSip) tweeted at 1:09 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
In #TheGreatDerangement, @GhoshAmitav mentions two novels that deal with climate change: McEwan's ''Solar'' from UK and B Kingsolver's ''Flight Behaviour'' from USA
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Ipshita Mitra (@ipshita77) tweeted at 2:36 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
Literature is moving away from nature. @GhoshAmitav on climate change and justice with @sunitanar @PenguinIndia https://t.co/5NZtY2x45o
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