Incendiary Circumstances

by Amitav Ghosh

  The author is grateful for permission to print excerpts from the following works:

  Agha Shahid Ali, "A Lost Memory of Delhi," from The Half-Inch Himalayas, copyright © 1987 by Agha Shahid Ali. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

  Agha Shahid Ali, "The Country Without a Post Office" and "Farewell," from The Country Without a Post Office, by Agha Shahid Ali. Copyright © 1997 by Agha Shahid Ali. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Agha Shahid Ali, "Lenox Hill," "The Last Saffron," "Summers of Translation," and "I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World," from Rooms Are Never Finished, by Agha Shahid Ali. Copyright © 2002 by Agha Shahid Ali. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Michael Ondaatje, "Wells" and "The Story," from Handwriting, by Michael Ondaatje. Copyright © 1998 by Michael Ondaatje. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.