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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future

This year Amitav Ghosh, Indian writer and Jnanpith Award winner, will submit a manuscript to Norway's Future Library project, joining Margaret Atwood, Han Kang and Elif Shafak, sealed until 2,114.
Ghosh's recent work focuses on the accelerating unravelling of the natural world and the moral legacy left for future generations, while he continues to write to inspire thought but remains wary of overstating literature's power.
A noted novelist, Amitav Ghosh first rose to prominence in Kolkata in 1956 with novels including `The Calcutta Chromosome` and later the acclaimed Ibis Trilogy, while he says politicians have adopted greenwashing rhetoric and warned society is hurtling toward extractivism.
For Ghosh personally, the motivation is familial as he plans to write a letter to his nine-month-old grandson while young activists say they are energised by his books.
He warns that ecological collapse fuels increasingly dysfunctional politics, with shrinking horizons driving right-wing movements and left-wing despair, and he doubts current structures will survive into the 22nd century.

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