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Reviews of River of Life, River of Death

A “wonderful achievement” – William Dalrymple in the New Statesman

Review in the Bangkok Post, March 2019

Quoted in The Economist March 30 – April 5, 2019 on the fate of the Ganges

Audio interview after the Kumbh Mela of 2019 – as usual the largest gathering of humans in history

An “important and ambitious book” – Oliver Balch in the Financial Times, Oct 28 2017.

We must protect the river’s wildlife. Asian Books Blog, Oct 28 2017.

Victor Mallet interviewed in Mint.

The book “marshals familiar facts so compellingly that one comes away with a clear sense of what’s to be done and why we have failed to do it” India Today review.

A tale told “with scary verve” – New Scientist review.

Victor Mallet’s column on superbugs in Geographical, and Geographical’s own review.

India is killing the Ganges, and Modi can’t stop it. Extract in South China Morning Post, Oct 29 2017.

Literary Review (UK) on River of Life.

Q&A with author Victor Mallet from The Asian Age, Nov 2017.

When rivers die – and are reborn. OUPblog, Oct 28, 2017.

More interviews and reviews in Asian Review of Books, Third Pole/India Climate Dialogue, IANS (used in various India news media), and mid-day.com,

Saving the Ganges, FT podcast, Nov 3, 2017.

India’s losing battle to save the holy Ganges. Column in Nikkei Asian Review, Nov 3 2017.

Superbug River. Extract in Caravan magazine, Nov 14 2017. And extract in The Hindu on the same topic, Nov 6 2017.

Hard truths about the environment. Book review on Greenbarrel.com, Nov 6 2017.

Audio interview with the author on Monocle Radio. Start at 49:19 for Ganges item, October 20 2017.

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My previous book, The Trouble with Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia, was first published in 1999. It’s about the modernisation of south-east Asia and the financial crisis that erupted there in 1997.