To mark World Environment Day on June 5, team Banega Swasth India speaks with Author, Jnanpith Award Winner, Amitav Ghosh about his new book - The Living Mountain and how through most of his work he is highlighting the climate crisis that are taking place around the world. Sundarbans has been an integral part of the plot for many of Mr Ghosh's books. Talking about Sundarbans and how it motivates him to keep writing about it, he said, "Sundarbans is a very powerful landscape. Sundarbans is actually what opened my eyes to climate change way back in 2000, when I was there researching for my novel The Hungry Tide."
