'The Shadow Lines' and 'The Hungry Tide' were written by:

"The Shadow Lines" and "The Hungry Tide" are novels by the Indian English writer Amitav Ghosh.

About these novels:

"The Shadow Lines" (1988): narrated by an unnamed boy growing up in Calcutta, it explores memory, family and the meaning of national borders ("shadow lines") through events linked to the Partition, World War II and communal riots in Dhaka and Calcutta in 1964. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989).

"The Hungry Tide" (2004): set in the Sundarbans, the mangrove delta of West Bengal, it combines a story of human relationships with themes of ecology, tigers, refugees (the Marichjhapi incident of 1979) and the power of nature.

About Amitav Ghosh:

He was born in 1956 in Calcutta (Kolkata) and studied at St. Stephen's College (Delhi), Delhi University and Oxford, where he earned a doctorate in social anthropology.

His first novel was "The Circle of Reason" (1986).

His other major works include:

• "In an Antique Land" (1992).
• "The Calcutta Chromosome" (1995), a science-thriller about malaria research.
• "The Glass Palace" (2000), set in Burma, India and Malaya.
• The "Ibis Trilogy" about the opium trade and the First Opium War: "Sea of Poppies" (2008, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), "River of Smoke" (2011) and "Flood of Fire" (2015).
• "The Great Derangement" (2016), a non-fiction book on climate change.
• "Gun Island" (2019), "Jungle Nama" (2021) and "Smoke and Ashes" (2023).
• In 2018, he became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour.
• He received the Padma Shri in 2007.

Other Indian English writers:

• Vikram Seth: "A Suitable Boy".
• Rohinton Mistry: "A Fine Balance", "Such a Long Journey".
• Salman Rushdie: "Midnight's Children", "The Satanic Verses".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Vikram Seth wrote "A Suitable Boy".
• ✗Rohinton Mistry wrote "A Fine Balance".
• ✗Salman Rushdie wrote "Midnight's Children".