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| FIRST ANNUAL IAAC LITERARY FESTIVAL |
| Review |
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| lassiwithlavina.com |
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By Lavina Melwani,
Decembar 2nd, 2014 |
| Big Apple turns into the Big Read |
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| Salman Rushdie in conversation with Akeel Bilgrami – photo: Tej Pattison |
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| Booked! Big Apple turns into the Big Read |
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Move over Jaipur Literary Festival! New York is joining the fray with its first ever South Asian Literary Festival, organized by the Indo-American Arts Council. (IAAC) in collaboration with the South Asia Institute of Columbia University and India Abroad.
The event kicked off with the book launch of Aasif Mandvi’s hilarious ‘No Land’s Man’ with music by Gold Spot and a reading which was pure performance art by Mandvi.
The opening day of the first ever IAAC literary festival had the literary daddy of them all, Sir Salman Rushdie, being interviewed by Professor Akeel Bilgrami, Director of the South Asia Institute, Columbia University, at the Smithsonian’s fabulous National Museum of the American Indian. Top it with wine, food and music by Zoya – and what more do you need? |
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| The festival with its noted writers, its upcoming wordsmiths and its wanna-be writers attracted literary agents and publishers, as well as legions of readers. Anything and everything to do with books and writing was there to be discussed and enough experts to guide newbies through rough waters. |
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Aasif Mandvi with Aroon Shivdasani at the book launch of ‘No Land’s Man’ – Photo: Paresh Gandhi
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The Writing Life
A session totally in the spirit of New York was ‘ Writing in the City – Tales from the Metropolis’ with the Maximum City author Suketu Mehta with Kalyan Ray and K.Anis Ahmed, moderated by Arun Venugopal of WNYC. Another thought-provoking session was ‘Unpacking the empire – colonial histories and modern interpretations’ by Rajika Bhandari, Kenize Mourad, Sujata Massey, moderated by Angana Chatterji.
Mira Nair and Nandita Das along with Mohan Sikka were part of ‘From Page to Celluloid – Adapting Books for the big Screen’ which was moderated by Vibhuti Patel. Yet another panel dealt with the importance of South Asia in today’s world and the panelists were Mahmood Mamdani, Gary Bass, Neil Padukone and Jaya Kamlani. The session was moderated by Mitra Kalita of Quartz. |
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Mira Nair and Nandita Das at a panel discussion with Mohan Sikka and Suketu Mehta. Photo: Paresh Gandh |
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