Interpretations Amitav Ghosh's the Shadow Lines

accept Amitav Ghosh Antique Land becomes begins believes belonging bildungsroman borders boundaries brings Calcutta characters child comes communal complex created cultural Delhi describes Dhaka ends English existence experiences eyes face fact feels fiction final freedom future Ghosh give going grandmother growing happenings human identity Ila's imagination important Indian individual inventions Jethamoshai journey killed kind language later leaves lives London looking maturity May's meaning memory mind mirror mother move mystery narrative narrator narrator's nationalism never Nick novel novelist one's outsider partition past points political present Price questions reader reality realizes relationship remains remembers riots Robi says sense Shadow Lines social story strangers struggle talk technique tells theme things thought Tridib Tridib's death understand violence voice wanted writer