Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
The Asia Society inaugurated its new Asian Arts & Ideas series this month with \u201cThe \u2018Chindia\u2019 Dialogues,\u201d a three-day forum that examined the confluence of the world\u2019s two most powerful developing economies.
\nThe organizers chose an unusual point of departure for event \u2014 not a historical overview, but a conversation between Jonathan Spence, former Sterling Professor of History at Yale, and the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.