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With the publishing industry changing, audiobooks are the thing that has caught everyone’s fancy. They have created a separate fan following. Audible, a creator and provider of audio storytelling, has been bringing audio books to bibliophiles for quite some time.
And, their latest offering is from acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh. His Jungle Nama has been converted into an audiobook. This verse adaptation of an episode from the legend of Bon Bibi — a well-known tale in the Sunderbans — lies at the heart of Ghosh’s novel, The Hungry Tide.
Jungle Nama becoming a book and later an audiobook is quite intriguing. Ghosh states the reasons quite simply. “In the Sunderbans, the story of Bon Bibi, Dukhey and Dokkhin Rai exists in different forms — as a text, a performance, an oral narrative, and so on. I wanted to create a story that would exist in different iterations — as a printed book, an audiobook, a graphic novel, a performance, and so on. Hence, the idea of an audiobook was present from the start. And, fortunately, I was able...