Showing posts with label Amitav Ghosh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amitav Ghosh. Show all posts

15.6.13

The Armenian Genocide and the Indians

                                                                                    Artsvi Bakhchinyan
                                                                                      Translated by Donald Abcarian

With the approach of the centenary of the Armenian genocide ever new incidents and details continue coming to light, these often touching on unexpected subjects and geographic settings. Last year, in a visit to Yerevan to take part in the "Strategies of (Un)Silencing" conference,(*) the famous contemporary Indian writer Amitav Ghosh presented a lecture from his work, "Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-Ain, 1916-1918," and it came as a major revelation to all of us.(**)