The Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi

Amitaf Gauche, a historian, journalist, and anthropologist, was born in Kolkata in 1956. He grew up in East Pakistan (Bangladesh), Sri Lanka, Iran and India. He studied at St. Stephen's College in Delhi, I received Phil. In 1982, he received the Social Anthropology Award from Oxford University. He has won the Prix Medici Estranger, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and other awards, has taught at several universities, and currently lives in New York. His novels and travel records include The Circle of Reason (1986), In Antique Land (1992), The Shadow Lines (1988), The Glass Palace (2000), Dancing in Cambodia, At At Large 1998), The Hungry and others. Tide (2004) In his novel he said, "My novel has always been about the community.

In his article "The Ghost of Lady Gandhi" (New Yorker, July 1995), Amitaf Gosh introduced the reader to Bosnian writer Dževad Karahasan and his "extraordinary article on literature and war" (published in Sarajevo) To do. "From City Exodus") This creates an amazing relationship between contemporary literary aesthetics and indifference of violence in the contemporary world "Ghosh continues to quote Karahasan: Ghosh eventually ended up with his own long Destroyed by the publication of his paper in 1995 which quotes silence lost, this is a description of the public's reaction to the terrible massacres of the Sikh community in New Delhi in 1984 - the body of her Sikhs Because the guard assassinated Indian Prime Minister Gandhi it will get revenge. According to Kalhassan, Ghosh explained this silence, "a decision to treat everything as an aesthetic phenomenon - completely avoiding good and true problems" is an artistic decision

In another older article, "Ghost of Lady Gandhi", Ghosh himself became part of action. Gosch, which explains the influence of Indiana Gandhi assassination by the Hindu mob and subsequent Sikh killings, wrote that the role in securing the safety of the Sikhs is incredibly too late. They may be the target of the wrath of the mob. However, despite the drama in this part, the core of this article is the genocide of small resistance by the general public.

A representative of collective violence in an article recently published in The Ghosts of Gandhi in 1995. So he first wrote about his riot after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. He quoted articles and war articles from the Bossanian writer Dzevad Karahasan, where Karahasan established a relationship between modernity. Literary aesthetics and indifference of violence in the modern world - (Ghosh 2002, 60). In Karahassan's opinion, the decision "to think of everything as an aesthetic phenomenon - to avoid perfectly good and true problems" is an artistic decision. This decision begins in the art world and continues to be a feature of the modern world - (Karahan in Ghosh 2002, 60)