Palomi Ghosh was born and brought up in Vadodara. She traces her roots back to West Bengal. Ghosh, along with her family, moved to the USA. Palomi spent her teens and early years of adulthood in the USA. She obtained a degree in Applied Mathematics from the North Carolina State Universi...
School Delhi Public School, Ruby Park, Kolkata, West Bengal College/University The Heritage Academy, Kolkata. Educational Qualification Bachelor's Degree Religion Hinduism Caste Kulin Kayastha Bengali Food Habit Non-vegetarian Hobbies Travelling Tattoo(s) • A tattoo on her right ankle • A tattoo...
Freedom from political colonialism came as a refreshing wind to write and historical nationalist issues such as diaspora, migration, refugees, colonial hegemony; socio-economic and cultural issues like east-west encounter, caste and class etc. become the main concerns of Amitav Ghosh. The present ...
Ghosh traverses and inhabits multiple worlds—the cities of her childhood and adulthood, the towns she has visited in her travels, and the villages she has never set foot in but knows intimately through the
However, like her father, she becomes an outcaste in the larger colonial community of Europeans in Calcutta, and her behavior (her indifference to recognized communal norms) makes her a source of ridicule and insults. On one such occasion, for instance, she is insulted by Mr. Kendalbushe, ...
She goes through the rituals of sati after her aged husband's death, but a low caste man rescues her. She starts a new life with her rescuer and finally they board the Ibis, the slave ship, and set sail for Mauritius. The life, however, that Deeti is shown to live is that of a...