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SUMMARY:Writers\, Etc. – Session 29
DESCRIPTION:Alliance Française de Delhi\, Institut Français en Inde \nand
 \nThe French Embassy in India\npresent\n\nWriters\, Etc. – Session 29\nV
 aiju Naravane\nin conversation with\nPavan K. Varma\nWednesday\, 9th April
  2014\, 6.30pm\nM. L. Bhartia Auditorium\, Alliance française de Delhi\nW
 riters\, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets
  primacy\, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with e
 ach other and the general public\, coming together to ask pertinent questi
 ons and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary
  societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the publi
 c and\, turning that over\, how do we see writers? How has the written wor
 d adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive 
 forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery\, unen
 cumbered by genre\, of all the written oeuvres\, ranging from living legen
 ds to new and emerging talent.\n For our twenty ninth session\, we are ve
 ry delighted to invite Vaiju Naravane in conversation with Pavan K. Varma.
  \n\nVaiju Naravane is the The Hindu's Europe correspondent. She is also 
 a lecturer\,  and broadcaster and is Foreign Fiction Editor with the Fren
 ch publishing house Albin Michel where she has published authors like Vikr
 am Seth\, Manil Suri\, Alan Hollinghurst\, Esther Freud\, Daniel Alarcon\,
  Anita Nair and  Anita Brookner among others.\n\n Writer-diplomat Pavan 
 K. Varma joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He has been Press Secr
 etary to the President of India\, the Spokesman of the Ministry of Externa
 l Affairs\, etc.\, and has now joined as Advisor (Culture) to Shri Nitish 
 Kumar\, Chief Minister of Bihar\, with the rank of Cabinet Minister. A wri
 ter of depth and insight\, he has written over a dozen books including Bec
 oming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity (Penguin-A
 llen Lane\, 2010) and When Loss is Gain (Rupa Books\, 2012)\, currently on
  the ‘Best Sellers’ list in India. Mr. Varma has also translated the p
 oetry of Kaifi Azmi\, Atal Bihari Vajpayee\, and Gulzar\, all published by
  Penguin.\n Click here to download invite\n&nbsp\;
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