The Living Mountain (HB) by Amitav Ghosh, Devangana Dash(Illustrator)

The Living Mountain (HB) by Amitav Ghosh, Devangana Dash(Illustrator)In my dream I was a young girl, growing up in a valley that was home to a cluster of warring villages, high in the Himalaya. Overlooking our Valley was an immense, snowy mountain, whose peak was almost always wreathed in clouds. The mountain was called Mahaparbat, Great Mountain, and despite our differences all of us who lived in the Valley revered that mountain: our ancestors had told us that of all the worlds mountains ours was the most alive; that

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