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The Peripheral Imagination:
Writing the Invisible
India
by
Aruni Kashyap
[May
18, 2012]
6PM to 8PM
25 West 43rd Street, Room
1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues,
Manhattan
RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/event/3249895525
or call 212-869-0182
In his
lecture,
"The
Peripheral
Imagination: Writing
the
Invisible
India", Aruni
Kashyap will
talk about
his journey
as a writer
from India's
northeast -
a region
that rarely
finds
representation
in India's
literary,
cultural and
political
discourse.
He will also
briefly
discuss the
Assamese
separatist
movement:
the backdrop
against
which his
forthcoming
novel
unfolds.
The House
With a
Thousand
Novels
(Penguin
India,
2012), is
set in
India’s
northeastern
state of
Assam.
Though Assam
is famous
around the
world for
its tea,
few know
the state
has been the
site of an
armed
secessionist
conflict for
the last
three
decades. His
novel tells
the story of
a
joint-family
in rural
Assam,
during the
“Secret
killings of
Assam” - a
series of
brutal
extra-judicial
killings of
rebel
sympathizers,
allegedly
sanctioned
by the
Indian
government
during the
late 90s in
order to
weaken the
separatist
movement.
For more
information:
www.housewithathousandnovels.com
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