The Hungry Tide Ghosh, AmitavFom the author of the glass palace, the widely acclaimed bestseller the hungry tide is a rich, exotic saga set in calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the bay of bengal an indian myth says that when the river ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks it is only when the