Please save Buddha, Mahavir's India from hate: Gopalkrishna Gandhi to Amitav Ghosh

Writer Amitav Ghosh should consider using his pen to warn Indians about the "inflammability of hatred among communities" in the country, the way he did with global warming in his 2018 book "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable", said former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

Gandhi, who presented the 54th Jnanpith award to the eminent novelist at the India Habitat Centre here on Wednesday, urged Ghosh to "save the India of Gautam Buddha and Vardhaman Mahavir from hate".

Ghosh is the first English author to win the award.

"I would urge him (Ghosh) to please consider administering to us yet another warning -- dread and unmistakable -- about the inflammability of hatred among communities which translate into mutually terrorising neighbours in the mohallas that you (Ghosh) know well and have so well described -- nations as well."