BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Asia/Kolkata X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT UID:47@afdelhi.org DTSTART:20140808T130000Z DTEND:20140808T130000Z DTSTAMP:20240405T175418Z URL:https://afdelhi.org/events/writers-etc-session-32/ SUMMARY:Writers\, Etc. – Session 32 DESCRIPTION:Alliance Française de Delhi\, Institut Français en Inde and T he French Embassy in India\n present\n\nWriters\, Etc. – Session 32\nKi shwar Desai\nin conversation with\nNamita Gokhale\n08th August 2014\, 6.30 pm\nM. L. Bhartia Auditorium\, Alliance française de Delhi\nWriters\, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy\, w here written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other an d the general public\, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and\, turn ing that over\, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cul tural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery\, unencumbered by genre\, of all the written oeuvres\, ranging from living legends to new an d emerging talent.\nFor our thirty-second session we are very excited to w elcome Kishwar Desai to be in conversation with Namita Gokhale.\nKishwar D esai’s debut novel\, Witness the Night  won the prestigious Costa First Novel Award (2010)\, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize\,the DSC South Asian Literary Prize\, the Waverton Good Read Award and shortli sted for the UK Author’s Club Award\, among others. It was shortlisted f or a readers prize by Elle magazine in France\,and has just been nominated for the Le Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere.It has been translated into over twenty languages and optioned for an international film. Her nov els Origins of Love and The Sea of Innocence\, and  Darlingji: The True L ove Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt \, a biography of the iconic Indian fil m actors\, covered 100 years of Indian cinema\, have all received positive publicity and critical acclaim. She had previously worked in television a s anchor/producer at various TV networks including NDTV\, Doordarshan\, TV Today and her last job in TV was as Vice President\, Zee Telefilms. She i s presently completing a book on Devika Rani and Himansu Rai and early Ind ian cinema. She is also a columnist for The Asian Age\, The Week and The T ribune and has published articles in The Guardian as well The Daily Mail\, among others. But her only real achievement is to be the lucky mother of Gaurav and Mallika Ahluwalia\, wife to Meghnad Desai and daughter to Padam and Rajini Rosha. Her favourite occupation is daydreaming and coming up w ith impossible ideas.\n \nWriter and publisher Namita Gokhale has written twelve books including several works of fiction. Her first novel\, ‘Par o: Dreams of Passion’\, which created a furor with its candid sexual hum our celebrates its thirtieth anniversary edition in 2014. Other novels inc lude ‘A Himalayan Love Story’\, ‘The Book of Shadows’\, ‘Shakunt ala: The Play of the Memory’\, and ‘Priya’\, a recent sequel to Paro . Gokhale has worked extensively with Indian myth. She has written ‘The Book of Shiva’ and retold the Mahabharata for young readers. She also co -edited the landmark anthology\, ‘In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mytholog y’. An edited anthology ‘Travelling In\, Travelling Out’ was release d in January. One of the founders and a co-director of the Jaipur Literatu re Festival and of ‘Mountain Echoes’\, the annual Bhutan Festival\, Go khale is committed to showcasing literature from across the Indian languag es. She currently curates ‘Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond’\, a multilin gual book show on Doordarshan.\n\nFor more information\, please contact cu lture@afdelhi.org\n \;\n \n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://afdelhi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/b ande-de-filles-web.jpg CATEGORIES:Events LOCATION:\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR