Connected by a 'River of Smoke': Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan Spence at The Asia Society
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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.
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