The following excerpt from the book The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021) by the English-language Bengali author Amitav Ghosh offers a witty critique of "official modernity" with its tendency to deprive everything non-human of voice and intentionality, of historicity. According to Ghosh, we face a great task today, which is to restore voice to the non-human in the sphere of human imagination, as well as to recognize (rediscover) that not only…