Thursday, February 22, 2018
4:30 PM
A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building
FREE and open to public
Calcutta is the Indian city that has perhaps accumulated the densest layers of imaginative, literary, and artistic representations in modern India. This event brings together three writers for each of whom the Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) has been a key figure of memory and representation. Such memories and reflections have played out in terms of both intimacy and distance, desire and detachment, habitation and expatriation, trauma and love. Our moderated discussion will explore the passions for—as well as the ambivalences about—this great world-historical city as it has been experienced, remembered, and imagined by three of our most brilliant contemporary writers.
Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Professor of Creative Writing Jhumpa Lahiri and writers Suketu Mehta and Neel Mukherjee, moderated by Princeton Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Benjamin Conisbee Baer.
Learn more about the event at piirs.princeton.edu
Sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts