Another writer who has contributed immensely to the Indian English Literature is Amitav Ghosh who is the author of "The Circle of Reason" (his 1986 debut novel), "The Shadow Lines" (1988), "The Calcutta Chromosome" (1995), "The Glass Palace" (2000), "The Hungry Tide" (2004), and "Sea of Poppies" (2008), the first volume of "The Ibis" trilogy, set in the 1830s, just before the Opium War, which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. Ghosh's latest work of fiction is "River of Smoke" (2011), the second volume of "The Ibis" trilogy.