The Economic Time of India interviews novelist Amitav Ghosh.

"The world that we are heading towards is a very dark place, but something is salvageable. It really depends on what we do now," says Ghosh. "When you look at the realities that surround us, you recall what the German philosopher Martin Heidegger said in 1966: 'Only a god can still save us.' And we have reached there now."