London: Renowned Indian author Amitav Ghosh has been awarded the Erasmus Prize for his contribution to “imagining the unimaginable” around the climate change crisis. He will be presented with the award at a grand ceremony at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Ghosh is the first person from South Asia to receive this award. Ghosh was born in Kolkata. He said he was “extremely honored” to be chosen for the award, which has been presented for decades to great figures in a wide range of fields, from artists such as Charlie Chaplin and Igmar Bergman to Trevor Noah.
‘Premium Erasmianum Foundation’ has selected Ghosh for this award. “I don’t believe much in this whole dichotomy between optimism and pessimism or optimism and pessimism,” Ghosh said ahead of next week’s awards ceremony in the Netherlands. I think coming from an Indian background, I think about these things in terms of karma and religion.” It is our duty to do everything we can to prevent the terrible disruptions we are going to face in the future.”
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The author of the book ‘The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable’ said that the way parties are working together under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is not very effective in dealing with issues related to climate change. “What we see is that Ghosh as a writer of historical fiction and non-fiction looks at these problems,” he said. As “historically rooted in a long history of colonialism, inequality and global inequality.”
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