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Detailed explanation-1: -A new story from internationally renowned author Amitav Ghosh, The Living Mountain is a cautionary tale of how we have systematically exploited nature, leading to an environmental collapse.

Detailed explanation-2: -The story at the core of The Living Mountain is of warring tribes living around a sacred, unscaled mountain, who are forced to become the servants of foreigners – the ‘Anthropoi’, who wish to climb and mine the mountain. With the support of the tribes, the conquering foreigners start up the slopes.

Detailed explanation-3: -In many ways then, Amitav Ghosh’s slim fable, The Living Mountain, seems to fit right into India’s chequered 2022 growth story. At just 35 pages, this is a no-nonsense tale. It is also cautionary: a fable for our times, as the strap says.