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#AmitavGhosh: Es «demencial» que el mundo avance en dirección opuesta en materia climática. – Capitán Swing
https://capitanswing.com/prensa/amitav-ghosh-es-demencial-que-el-mundo-avance-en-direccion-opuesta-en-materia-climatica/ -
@capitanswing.bsky.social Sí, la crisis de imaginación es tan grande que ni siquiera imaginamos que el CAOS climático no sea una "crisis" y seguimos hablando (algunos, como estos de Caixa Forum) de "crisis climática". No, no es una crisis, que por definición es algo resoluble, temporal, que permite la vuelta al estado anterior. Es CAOS y no volveremos al clima estable del Holoceno al menos durante siglos o milenios.
#CaosClimatico #CambioClimatico #CrisisClimatica #AmitavGhosh
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"La grande cecità" di Amitav Ghosh, 284 pagine, Neri Pozza, edizione 2017.Gli effetti del #cambiamentoClimatico sono sotto gli occhi di tutti.
Perchè allora il mondo della cultura fa così poco per sensibilizzare il mondo?
Da questa domanda si dipana la brillante analisi di #AmitavGhosh.#libri #leggere #cosaLeggoNelWeekend #22marzo #LaGrandeCecità
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This autumn, I returned to Amitav Ghosh’s work for the first time in around 20 years by reading the Ibis trilogy. And, wow, was it worth the wait. He spent a decade researching and writing this epic story of lives entwined by the poisoned veins of empire in the years leading up to the First Opium War. It's a stunning achievement. #reading #books #AmitavGhosh
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I've finished reading Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
My wife is a fan of his books, we both previously read The Calcutta Chromosome (our favorite), The Glass Palace and In an Antique Land. Now I've gotten to Sea of Poppies which she has already read.Spoilers ahead.
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Amitav Ghosh writes for the 22nd century. His secret manuscript will remain unread until 2114, joining the Future Library’s visionary archive in Oslo—a collaboration of trees, trust, and time.
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A biting commentary on the global #ecological and #social collapse underway by #AmitavGhosh and his sharp critique of #colonialism even as he receives an award... somewhat oddly I felt "...in the Royal Palace in #Amsterdam... from his Majesty, King Willem-Alexander in the presence of the Royal Family of the #Netherlands."
#ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #sentience #immigration #fascism #war
https://scroll.in/article/1076239/amitav-ghosh-in-this-time-of-monstrous-anomalies-we-must-recognise-that-the-earth-is-judging-us -
2/2 ... Ter meerdere eer en glorie van zichzelf. En later ter meerdere eer en glorie van de verheffing van de mensen die in het mondiale zuiden leefden; “development” zijn we dat na de Tweede Wereldoorlog gaan noemen."
Nee hoor, we spreken dat woord niet uit, we handelen er alleen maar naar.
#DeVier #Politiek #PVV #Schoof @groenlinkspvda #economie #kapitalisme #AmitavGhosh
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1/2 Lees De vloek van de nootmuskaat van Amitav Ghosh ( https://www.atlascontact.nl/2024/03/07/erasmusprijs-2024-toegekend-aan-amitav-ghosh/ ) en je begrijpt deze uitspraak van de schrijver.
"Het kapitalisme is niet een op zichzelf staand economisch systeem, maar geworteld in een wereldbeeld waarin de witte westerse man zichzelf als heer en meester beschouwde waaraan de rest van de wereld onderworpen diende te worden. ....
#DeVier #Politiek #PVV #Schoof #groenlinkspvda #economie #kapitalisme #AmitavGhosh
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> .. the movement became synonymous with a place— Standing Rock— it could be said that its political energy was generated in large part by the landscape itself. In the words of a group of activists, “Standing Rock emerged as a ‘prayer camp’ because the grounds in question are sacred, a site of ceremony and ancestral knowledge.”
#AmitavGhosh #NutmegsCurse
#StandingRock #OccupyMovement #OccupyPlaces
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La noix de muscade comme métaphore de l’impensé colonial
Avec «La Malédiction de la muscade», le romancier d’origine indienne #AmitavGhosh, engagé dans la lutte contre les dérèglements climatiques, propose un récit-essai original. Ethnologue de formation, il combine rigueur scientifique et talent de conteur.
Un article de Claude Grimal (En attendant Nadeau)
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Les colons européens, ces assassins
Que pèsent les #NoixDeMuscade dans l’histoire politique du monde? Ces grosses billes du muscadier ont eu l’effet d’un explosif utilisé par les colons néerlandais dans l’#ArchipelDesBanda au 17e siècle. #AmitavGhosh met en regard cette histoire avec l’accaparement des ressources actuelles. (Gilles Fumey)
✒️ Par Géographies en mouvement | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/geographies-en-mouvement/blog/220424/les-colons-europeens-ces-assassins
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"Eminent writer #AmitavGhosh has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Prize 2024.
"He wields his pen to show the #climate crisis is a cultural crisis that results from a dearth of the imagination," it said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/108311854.cms
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Reading #AndreasMalm's _ #FossilCapital _ convinces me again that #ProgressIsALie. An article by #BrianTokar sent me to Malm's books and they seem very helpful so far. They complement #AmitavGhosh's doubts about the "#Anthropocene" term:
> .. if some humans introduced steam power against the explicit resistance of other humans, then it would be hard to maintain a notion of it as the expression of a species-wide project... steam arose as a form of power exercised by some people against others.. -
The idea of a mystical aim for soldiering, and battle as a psychoactive (like LSD?) got me thinking of Bertrand Russel on Boredom.
> Wars, pogroms, and persecutions have all been part of the flight from boredom; even quarrels with neighbours have been found better than nothing. Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
#BoredomSoldiers #SoldieringBoredom
In #FloodOfFire #AmitavGhosh imagines a sepoy's regrets.. -
> A number of historical studies have shown that for Indians, Hindus and Muslims alike, soldiering was not just a profession but also a spiritual calling, tied to mystical experiences. Indeed, some of the fiercest warriors in India were Sufis and sadhus of various different orders. The British recognized this and always assigned a faqir or a sadhu to each battalion, along with run-of-the-mill clerics like pundits and moulvis.
#AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #MysticSoldiers #SoldierMysticism -
> .. the movement’s insistence on the particularity of a specific landscape did not, in any way, limit its appeal; to the contrary, #StandingRock became a magnet for people from many countries and faith traditions. “There were Iraqi people there; there were Egyptian people there,” says an activist. “You had many people from different European countries that came to Standing Rock. Different walks of life. Filipinos. You have every walk of life there.”
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> .. as an officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Orwell probably smoked opium himself. ‘What are the pleasures of opium?’ he once wrote. ‘Like other pleasures, they are, unfortunately, indescribable.’
#Orwell #GeorgeOrwell #OrwellOnOpium in #SmokeAndAshes by #AmitavGhosh
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This empire may be under American control today, but it is the product of centuries of combined Western effort, going back to the 1500s. What would happen to this vast strategic structure if there were to be a quick, worldwide transition to forms of energy that do not need to be transported across oceans? The answer is obvious: its value would be hugely diminished. China, India, Japan, and other large Asian economies would not need to worry about the Strait of Hormuz or Malacca— they would generate their power on their own soil.
#AmitavGhosh in #NutmegsCurse... imagine if China were able to completely reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and switch to renewable energies. It would completely overturn the geopolitical order of the world today, because the geopolitics of the world really depends on the shipping of fossil fuels, you know, through these particular chokepoints. Two of the most important chokepoints are the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca. And, you know, something like 40% of the world’s oil ship through these chokepoints every day. So, on controlling these chokepoints depends, actually, Western geopolitical dominance. And if fossil fuels were to be completely substituted at scale, what you would have is a complete inversion of the world’s geopolitical order.
- https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#GeopoliticalOrder #FossilFuelOrder #GeographyClass #StraitOfMalacca #StraitofHormuz -
> By the end of the 19th century, at least 3 to 10 percent of the Chinese population, and possibly as much as 30 or 40 percent, were regular users. Western traders justified their behavior by appealing to the newly popular ideology of the free market. Supply, they insisted, always chased demand.. Ghosh.. argues, “Where plentiful supplies of opioids exist, they will create their own demand,”..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/02/08/amitav-ghosh-smoke-ashes-opium-history-review/
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> ".. if gain-seeking desires had not cauterised their souls" Governer of Canton Lin Zexu
> ".. we should thus certainly put a value on riches and slight men's lives" Chinese Commissioner Keying
https://archive.org/details/indochineseopium00hillrich
#JSpencerHill in #IndoChineseOpiumTrade
/HT #AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #OpiumTrade #DrugWar #OpiumWars #DrugWars #LinZexu -
> .. with both alcohol and opium, the critical factor is not their chemical composition but their social history, that is to say the length, duration and historical circumstances of a population’s exposure to the substance. When alcohol fell on ‘virgin soil’, as ‘smoking opium’ did in China and Southeast Asia, it too could have devastating consequences, as it did among Native Americans and indigenous Australians.
#SmokeAndAshes #AmitavGhosh
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> "You have appealed to the machine gun and by the machine gun shall you be judged."
> "You have shattered the dream of our philosophers that the world could be governed by the power of law and order."
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/40729214/
In #SmokeAndAshes #AmitavGhosh mentions #KuHongMing ( #GuHongMing ) as quoted by #SomersetMaugham . It's nice to find an online version of Maugham's writing.. Ghosh cites the quote from #ClashOfEmpires by #LydiaHLiu
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> ... #BattleOfSanyuanli. Publicly the British high command was dismissive.. declaring it to be a minor skirmish—although.. internal communications, and.. promotions.. suggest.. a different view in private... vanishingly few Indians or Britons have heard of Sanyuanli. But in Chinese historical memory, the battle of #Sanyuanli has acquired great symbolic importance, and is regarded as the event that marked the beginning of popular #ResistanceToImperialism.
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> In 1996, when #PurduePharma introduced #OxyContin, the sales of the drug amounted to 48 million dollars. Four years later its sales had grown to 1.1 billion dollars, an increase of 2,192 per cent.2 The success of the #EastIndiaCompany’s drug-pushing programme was not quite as spectacular but it was astounding nonetheless. In the 101 years between 1729 and 1830, the Company’s #opium exports to China rose from 200 to 30,000 chests, a 14,900 per cent increase.
#SmokeAndAshes by #AmitavGhosh -
I saw a #GeographyClass last night. The presenter was quick with Google Earth. We need a geography based on #AmitavGhosh:
> .. the geopolitics of the world..depends on.. shipping fossil fuels.., through.. particular chokepoints. Two.. important chokepoints are the #StraitOfHormuz and the #StraitOfMalacca like 40% of the world’s oil ship through these chokepoints every day. So, on controlling these chokepoints depends, actually, Western geopolitical dominance.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse -
> ‘Every Briton appears to pride himself on being outrageously a John Bull,’ wrote #MariaGraham in her 1812 memoir of India.. Another mid-nineteenth-century British observer was struck by ‘the extreme contempt for the natives which characterizes the English in India, which is perhaps nowhere cherished more than in Calcutta, not only at government-house, but among the independent settlers, and which makes itself so felt of an evening on the esplanade’
#AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes with #JohnBull -
> .. The #Javanese ... were readily overcome by this poison, and lost all care for themselves; but we Chinese, of the central flowery land, have also been deluded by them; for no sooner do we partake of this substance, than we lose all anxieties about our native land, have no further concern for father or mother, wife or children, and are plunged into unspeakable misery.
#SmokeAndAshes by #AmitavGhosh
Ong Tae-hae's book is on-line!!https://archive.org/details/Chinamanabroadd00OngT
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>.. not everyone struck it rich trading in opium. It was a competitive, highly volatile market. But those who worked for Perkins and a few other firms became the city's elite — otherwise known as #BostonBrahmins The Cabots, Cushings, Welds, #Delanos (the grandfather of #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt) and #Forbes all built fortunes on #opium.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/31/opium-boston-history
#OpiumTrade link from #SmokeAndAshes endnotes by #AmitavGhosh #NorthEasternUpperCrust -
> The staggering reality is that many of the cities that are now pillars of the modern globalized economy—#Mumbai, #Singapore, #HongKong and #Shanghai—were initially sustained by #opium. In other words, it wasn’t #FreeTrade or the autonomous #LawsOfTheMarket that laid the foundations of #GlobalizedEconomy: it was a #MonopolisticTrade in a drug produced under colonial auspices by poor Asian farmers, a substance that creates addiction, the very negation of freedom...
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> What the official monopolies mainly succeeded in doing was actually increase the profits that colonial regimes reaped from opium. As one Dutch official frankly admitted: ‘In the system of the Opiumregie, there is no place to reduce the quantities which could be sold; it is necessary to help every buyer.’
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> ...Of the fourteen members of the founding committee, three were Parsis and one was a representative of #DavidSassoon & Co.. the bank’s rapid expansion owed a great deal to its funding of the opium trade. The fact that this company, better known as #HSBC , is today one of the world’s largest banks is an indication of the extent to which the institutions of modern #GlobalizedCapitalism are #FoundedOnOpium.
#Opium #FreeTrade #AmitavGhosh #SmokeAndAshes
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> #Piranesi is.. responsible for one of the uncanny echoes that reverberate through the history of #opioids. The artist’s work was of great interest to #ArthurMSackler, the patriarch of the dynasty behind America’s twenty-first-century #OpioidEpidemic. Sackler assembled one of the most important collections of the artist’s work, noting: ‘Piranesi’s genius will long be celebrated. His was an epochal achievement, a unique vision of what was to come…’ #AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes #SacklerDynasty
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> ... the most notable thing about my perspective on China, really, was that it scarcely existed. And this was, I think, the result of a certain way of perceiving not just China but also the world in general: it is an outlook in which #TheWest looms so large that it obscures everything else.
> The presence of the West is inescapable across the Indian subcontinent, no matter whether it concerns language, clothing, sport, material objects or art.
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> Considered through a colonial and geopolitical lens, the climate crisis looks even worse than when assessed on the science alone. “The picture is grim,” Ghosh agreed. However, “action shouldn’t be framed around hope and despair, but around duty,” he said. “It is our duty to do what we can for the future”.
#AmitavGhosh on #ClimateChange and #Duty not #HopeAndDespair but #Obligation #MuchObliged #MuyObligado -
> More opium is grown today than at any other time in human history, despite every major state trying to control this production. But #opium has defied all of them.
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> The saddest and most devastating consequence of #ClimateChange is that it has shown us that these #WesternStructures of #governance, which were presented to us as the ultimate achievement of #humanity, are in fact completely hollow. They cannot do what they claim to do.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/interviews/climate-change/there-are-so-many-problems-with-the-anthropocene-definition-amitav-ghosh-90928
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#AnthropoceneDefinition
> it might lead to greater political action or awareness of the problem. But I do feel that it is important to note that there have been several resignations from #AWG over the narrowness of this definition because effectively, it ignores the prehistory of this problem which goes back three or four centuries to the invention of an #ExtractivistEconomy, which is what my book The #NutmegsCurse is about.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/interviews/climate-change/there-are-so-many-problems-with-the-anthropocene-definition-amitav-ghosh-90928
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This article mentions the extreme energy damage of industrial beef production(rightly) but the extremely extreme energy damage of the military is not. The article is by #MichaelKlare, some sort of energy/fossil-fuel expert and the advertisement next to the text is for his book about the Pentagon. #AmitavGhosh points out that a small-city's yearly energy use is burned up in a day by and aircraft carrier, and hour by a fighter jet. War is the health of the State, death of humanity
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.> the Pentagon is the single largest consumer of energy in the United States— and probably in the world.4 The US military maintains vast fleets of vehicles, ships, and aircraft, and many of these consume huge amounts of fossil fuels. A non- nuclear aircraft carrier consumes 5,621 gallons of fuel per hour; in other words, these vessels burn up as much fuel in one day as a small midwestern town might use in a year. But a single F- 16 aircraft consumes a third as much fuel in one hour of ordinary operations— around 1,700 gallons. If the plane’s afterburners are engaged, it consumes two and a half times as much fuel per hour as an aircraft carrier— 14,400 gallons.
#AmitavGhosh in #NutmegsCurse on #ThePentagon #USAmilitary and #FossilFuels #F16 #AircraftCarrier #F16FuelUse #MidWesternTown #USAmidWesternTown
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I found #FloodOfFire and and the pages about battles. It was the #BattleOfAssaye that concerned one of a main characters, an Indian mercenary, Kesri Singh. Another character, a disgraced rajah, Neel Rattan Halder, watches a British/Chinese battle in Hong Kong and muses about how unfair it is that battles determine so much. Along with the #BattleOfKerbala he mentions #Panipat and #Plassey.
#AmitavGhosh
#Battles #Assaye #Kerbala #Gaugamela
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/books/review/amitav-ghoshs-flood-of-fire.html
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@progressiveartist I don't know that any of us #readers "need to" read anything in particular but there are a lot of amazing stories based in south Asia and north Asia. Many that I've read have focussed on the diasporas. #TheJoyLuckClub by #AmyTan was one of the books that started me on my Asian journey (literally since I eventually moved to Việt Nam, twice). #AmitavGhosh is another writer that I've read a great deal of. #TheKiteRunner, by #KhaledHosseini. There are so many.
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@progressiveartist I don't know that any of us #readers "need to" read anything in particular but there are a lot of amazing stories based in south Asia and north Asia. Many that I've read have focussed on the diasporas. #TheJoyLuckClub by #AmyTan was one of the books that started me on my Asian journey (literally since I eventually moved to Việt Nam, twice). #AmitavGhosh is another writer that I've read a great deal of. #TheKiteRunner, by #KhaledHosseini. There are so many.
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@progressiveartist I don't know that any of us #readers "need to" read anything in particular but there are a lot of amazing stories based in south Asia and north Asia. Many that I've read have focussed on the diasporas. #TheJoyLuckClub by #AmyTan was one of the books that started me on my Asian journey (literally since I eventually moved to Việt Nam, twice). #AmitavGhosh is another writer that I've read a great deal of. #TheKiteRunner, by #KhaledHosseini. There are so many.
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@progressiveartist I don't know that any of us #readers "need to" read anything in particular but there are a lot of amazing stories based in south Asia and north Asia. Many that I've read have focussed on the diasporas. #TheJoyLuckClub by #AmyTan was one of the books that started me on my Asian journey (literally since I eventually moved to Việt Nam, twice). #AmitavGhosh is another writer that I've read a great deal of. #TheKiteRunner, by #KhaledHosseini. There are so many.
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@progressiveartist I don't know that any of us #readers "need to" read anything in particular but there are a lot of amazing stories based in south Asia and north Asia. Many that I've read have focussed on the diasporas. #TheJoyLuckClub by #AmyTan was one of the books that started me on my Asian journey (literally since I eventually moved to Việt Nam, twice). #AmitavGhosh is another writer that I've read a great deal of. #TheKiteRunner, by #KhaledHosseini. There are so many.