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| Plan to Attend: Best Cultural Event in New York City - About South Asia |
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| The Stewardship Report |
| Check out The Third Annual IAAC Literary Festival Schedule! |
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New York, N.Y. The J. Luce Foundation is proud to support for the third year the Indo American Arts Council’s South Asian Literary Festival in New York City. Held the first year at Columbia University and last year at Hunter College, this year’s exciting program will be at N.Y.U. Jim Luce wrote about the first festival in HuffPo here, and the second here.
“This is without a doubt one of the finest cultural events in New York City,” says Jim Luce. “I was a Japanese literature major in college, my father and step-mother were professors of French literature, and I feel South Asian literature offers us a glimpse into the soul of the Sub Continent. I am proud to call its founder, Aroon Shivdasani, a friend and colleague.” Read Jim’s profile of Aaron. |
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Jim Luce with world-renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie
at the first Indo American Arts Council Literary Festival. |
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This year’s literary festival promises to be exceptionally exciting, with South Asian stars such as Amb. Hardeep Singh Puri,Aseem Chhabra and Sree Sreenivasan. Conversations will range from ‘India Today; India Tomorrow’ to ‘Examining the Idea of India/Pakistan/Kashmir.’ It will even include a literary pub-crawl in Greenwich Village.
One exciting panel will examine how every culture, Indian or Western, religious or secular, modern or tribal, uses stories, symbols and rituals to convey its own truth, that is indifferent to rationality, over generation. Without myth there is no meaning, and without meaning, there is no culture. |
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| Schedule of Events |
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| Day 1 – Friday, Oct. 7 |
Opening Night Friday Oct 7, 2016. 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
NYU School of Journalism, NYC
India Today; India Tomorrow
Shashi Tharoor and Somini Sengupta in conversation with Suketu Mehta
Looking at Contemporary India - where it is in relation to where it should be? Could be? What are the reasons for its drive it in that particular direction? Are the people and the government in sync?
Tickets: $50; $45 IAAC Members, NYU Staff, Students w/ID $25 BUY |
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| Day 2 - Saturday, Oct. 8 |
0 am - 11 am Registration
11:00 am - 12 noon AVID@IAAC |
| Session 1A - Husain’s Raj: Visions of Empire and Nation |
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Sumathi Ramaswamy in converation with Vidya Dehejia
Join Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Columbia University, and author, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History at Duke University for a discussion of a new monograph on India’s most famous Modernist, Maqbool Fida Husain. Titled Husain’s Raj: Visions of Empire and Nation, the book focuses on the artist’s playful pictorial vignettes of the British Empire in India, and argues that Husain shows us how it is possible, even necessary, to laugh while looking back at a painful and traumatic past.
11:00 am - 12 noon
Session 1B - Anglo - Indian Literature |
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Reginald Shires in conversation with Blair Williams
The question, “How will posterity remember the Anglo-Indian community?”. Historically the Anglo-Indian community was defined by either English or Indian writers, and most of the descriptions were not complimentary - in fact many created (or reinforced) negative stereotypes of Anglo-Indian men and women. Meet Blair Williams, the founder of CTR books that has published 7 books, written by members of the community and those that knew them well, to provide a balanced view of the literature of this community. |
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| 12:15 pm -1:15 pm |
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Session 2A - The Secret Diary of Kasturba Gandhi
Neelima Dalmia Adhar in conversation with Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Kasturba Gandhi’s diary tells of an overbearing, self-righteous, sexually driven husband and neglectful father - a very different man the world knew as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: liberator of India, prophet of peace, beloved of his countrymen!
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12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
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| Session 2B - Blueprints for Art and Social Change: A firsthand view of the power of arts for awareness, advocacy and justice in the Indian context. |
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| Gopika Jadeja, Priyanka Dasgupta, Amana Fontanello-Khan in conversation with Mick Minard |
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| How is art breaking out of the gilded gallery to confront real issues on ground and inspire social change? What are the new blueprints for the 21st-century artist-activist dabbling in multiple genres including arts, writing, ecology, inclusion and politics? Join our speakers on their journeys, how to be heard in the internet age and make a difference through art. |
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| LUNCH BREAK 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm |
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2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Session 3A - Young Adult Voyages - Spiritual and Historical
Ram Sivasankaran, Rohit Gaur in conversation with Marina Budhos.
Marina Budhos discusses historical fiction and mystical spiritual adventures with two dreamers - writers who transport young adults to other domains. |
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| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm TiE@IAAC |
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| Session 3B- Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star |
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| Aseem Chhabra in conversation with Tejaswini Ganti |
The first biography of the dashing film legend Shashi Kapoor sheds light on the life of this enigmatic, charismatic personality: a devout family man, a thespian, and a commercial film idol. The discussion will be illustrated by clips of his films and anecdotes of his life. |
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