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SUMMARY:Writers\, Etc. – Session 30
DESCRIPTION:Alliance Française de Delhi\, Institut Français en Inde and\n
 The French Embassy in India\npresent\n\nWriters\, Etc. – Session 30\nRan
 a Dasgupta \nin conversation with\nChiki Sarkar\n\n\nTuesday\, 13th May 20
 14\, 6.30pm\nM. L. Bhartia Auditorium\, Alliance française de Delhi\nWrit
 ers\, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets pr
 imacy\, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each
  other and the general public\, coming together to ask pertinent questions
  and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary so
 cieties? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public a
 nd\, turning that over\, how do we see writers? How has the written word a
 dapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive for
 ms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery\, unencum
 bered by genre\, of all the written oeuvres\, ranging from living legends 
 to new and emerging talent.\n For our 30th session\, we are very delighte
 d to invite Rana Dasgupta in conversation with Chiki Sarkar .\n\n\nRana Da
 sgupta was born in Canterbury and studied at Balliol College\, Oxford and 
 the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  After his studies he worked for an 
 international marketing firm\, which took him to London\, Kuala Lumpur and
  then New York. In 2001\, he moved to Delhi to write.  Tokyo Cancelled\, 
 a cycle of contemporary folktales\, appeared in 2005 and was shortlisted f
 or the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize.  Solo (2009) won the Commonwealth Writer
 s’ Prize. Capital: a Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi appeared ea
 rlier this year. The Guardian called it an ‘intense\, lyrical\, erudite 
 and powerful book…  Dasgupta has provided a welcome corrective to the r
 eams of superficial travel writing describing the whimsical\, the exotic\,
  the booming or simply the poverty-stricken in India. His is a much more c
 omplex\, darker story.’\n\n\nChiki Sarkar is the publisher of Penguin Ra
 ndom House India.\n For more information\, please contact communication@a
 fdelhi.org\n\n&nbsp\;
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