Amitav Ghosh on "Sea of Poppies"

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Amitav Ghosh was born in India and educated in Delhi and at Oxford. He's the author of many award winning novels, as well as non-fiction and essays. The first book in his new trilogy is "Sea of Poppies." Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary. And he reads sections from his book.