Contents: Preface. 1. A tribute poem to Amitav Ghosh/Vivekanand Jha. 2. Raj Kumar: a Picaro? Amitav Ghosh\'s the glass palace/Indira Nityanandam. 3. Transcendence of sense of place: sea of poppies and river of smoke as petrofiction/Deepak Thakur. 4. A thematic study of the Calcutta Chromosome/Smitha Jha. 5. Amitav Ghoshs sea of poppies: traverse of human exploitation/Satendra Kumar. 6. Anti-art and counter science: a postcolonial reading of Amitav Ghosh\'s the Calcutta chromosome/Dinesh Kumar. 7. Hostile environment in Amitav Ghosh\'s the hungry tide/Dalvir Singh Gahlawat. 8. Problem of migration in Amitav Ghosh\'s the sea of poppies/Ambarish Sen. 9. History race and Amitav Ghosh\'s sea of poppies/Rajnish Mishra. 10. Amitav Ghosh\'s the glass palace: a postcolonial study/T. Sasikanth Reddy....