I had always wondered where the antique land was, and now I know.
The landscape of this antique land vanished as it might in a nuclear attack.
It reintroduced the antique land-ownership law despite knowing that its flawed design would almost halt much-needed foreign investment.
Ghosh also wrote In an Antique Land (1992), a book that straddles several genres travel writing, autobiography, memoir and blurs fiction and nonfiction.
"I met a traveler from an antique land," Shelley wrote, but in fact the head itself had traveled, kidnapped, like the Elgin Marbles, by greedy British antiquarians.
"I met a traveller from an antique land" begins a famous poem by Shelley that we had to learn in school.
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said – 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said— 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
No one quibbles with one-day cricket and T20 being played in every corner of this antique land, but if Test cricket is to remain in rude health, Eden Gardens and Chepauk must get at least one Test a year.
The experimental flamboyance of his early novels - the science fiction of The Calcutta Chromosome, the formal games of The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land's mix of factual ethnography and fiction - has given way to a much more conventional kind of storytelling.
