Bookmarked Musings: Chasing Shadow Lines- Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh by Ramlal Agarwal
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In this essay, Dr. Ramlal Agarwal takes us through Amitab Ghosh’s Shadow Lines observing how the novel is loaded with intellectualism and postmodern experimentalism.
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh takes its readers back and forth from Dhaka to Calcutta to London, from the past to the present, with a gathering of characters from three countries and three generations who connect with one another notwithstanding differences of nationality, colour, or religion.
It starts with the family of Justice Chandra Shekhar Datta, Chaudhari, and his brother, Gostobihari. Justice Datta-Chaudhuri has two daughters, Tha’mma and Mayadevi. Tha’mma is married to an engineer working in Burma, and Mayadevi is married to a famous advocate. Tha’mma’s husband dies of pneumonia, and she comes to Calcutta with her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson.
