SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 33

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. Amitav Ghosh.

• A stunningly vibrant and intensely human work, Sea of Poppies, the first book in the Ibis trilogy confirms Amitav Ghosh's reputation as a master storyteller.
• The book is beautifully written historical novel about 1830's India in the grip of the opium trade.
• The story starts in 1838 on the eve of the first opium wars.
• Deeti is the central character of the story and she is the widow of an opium-addicted husband and avoids the immolation pyre (a tradition she should have undergone) to follow a vision of a journey on an ocean-going ship. The IBIS is that ship she boards to escape her fate and establish a new destiny in another land.