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September 06, 2006
Amitav Ghosh In The Hindu, Sept. 2006
Ghosh talks about book readings, audiences, and why Moby Dick is magnificent.
And on the 'nation state':
If you look at the work of Sayeed Qutb, what he actually says is that the nation state is a form of idolatry because it is worshipping itself. In its own way it is an interesting and powerful critique and what you really see today is a melting away of the nation state at many different levels. In the West, though they have nation states, they have sort of merged into each other into a sort of Imperium, especially the Anglo states, America, England, Australia. On the other hand you see the emergence of a certain kind of trans-nationalism amongst, say terrorist groups, which are sort of linked up now.
Posted by Soniah Kamal at September 6, 2006 11:18 AM
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