Dr. Sunil Amrith is author of The Burning Earth, and a historian at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the ...

The Bay of Bengal, notes historian Sunil Amrith, is an "expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of January winter, or raging and turbid at the peak of the summer rains". The largest ...

The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith First, don't be put off by the title. The Burning Earth is a bracing book, rather than a depressing one. Although it's a history of the terrible things ...