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Latest reviews, extracts and interviews!

▪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.

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