About Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the multiaward–winning author of books of fiction and nonfiction. He has won France’s Prix Medici Etranger, India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize, among others.
About Firdous Bamji
Firdous Bamji has
appeared in numerous plays in New York and across the country and played the
title role in William Shakespeare’s Othello.
He has played leading parts in world and American premiere productions of plays
by noted playwrights, including Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Eric Bogosian, and
Rebecca Gilman. He has also had guest starring parts on Law & Order and Law &
Order: SVU, and he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award as Best
Supporting Actor for his work in the film The
War Within.