Launch of Seventeen, a collection of short stories by Anita Agnihotri at Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road > 6:30pm on 18th February 2012
Time : 6:30 pm - 7:15 pm
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Event Details : Launch of Seventeen, a collection of short stories by Anita Agnihotri, translated by Arunava Sinha.
Zubaan Books is proud to present Seventeen, a collection of short stories by the extremely prolific Bengali writer Anita Agnihotri, and translated into English by Arunava Sinha, one of the country's finest Bengali-to-English translators.
Anita Agnihotri and Arunava Sinha will be in conversation with each other this Saturday as part of the Bengal Art Show that's happening at the Amphitheatre at the India Habitat Centre. Parvathy Baul will be performing soon after the launch/conversation.
Seventeen : A brother and sister visit the unique crater-lake that their dead, estranged mother had written to them about in her letters. A middle-class employee’s orderly life turns upside down when his employer holds back his cheque without an explanation. The employees of a forgotten outpost in a sun-baked town threaten mass suicide because they have no hope of survival.
Seventeen is a collection of short stories from among more than 100 of anita Agnihotri’s published short fiction. By turn intense, brittle, angry sad and torn apart in conflict, the stories bring out the different faces of human hardship and explore the India that is still largely unknown. Set in metros and villages, in small-town India and in international suburbia, the stories run the gamut of experiences both everyday and extraordinary. From deeply personal relationships against the backremove of turmoil to intensely social truths told through the unique life of individuals, each of these stories is a picture of human fragility. This is literary craftsmanship at its best.
Anita Agnihotri writes in Bengali. A member of the Indian Administrative Service, she has written over 25 books: poetry, short stories, novels, critical essays and children’s books. Her works have been translated into all major Indian languages, and German and Swedish.
Arunava Sinha is a translator of classic and contemporary Bengali fiction. His published translations include Three Women (Tagore), What Really Happened (Banaphool), Striker Stopper (Moti Nandy), My Kind of Girl (Buddhadeva Bose, Chowringhee (Sanker), and Seventeen (Anita Agnihotri) which was published by Zubaan.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 91-11-43663333 (Habitat World) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Zubaan Books is proud to present Seventeen, a collection of short stories by the extremely prolific Bengali writer Anita Agnihotri, and translated into English by Arunava Sinha, one of the country's finest Bengali-to-English translators.
Anita Agnihotri and Arunava Sinha will be in conversation with each other this Saturday as part of the Bengal Art Show that's happening at the Amphitheatre at the India Habitat Centre. Parvathy Baul will be performing soon after the launch/conversation.
Seventeen : A brother and sister visit the unique crater-lake that their dead, estranged mother had written to them about in her letters. A middle-class employee’s orderly life turns upside down when his employer holds back his cheque without an explanation. The employees of a forgotten outpost in a sun-baked town threaten mass suicide because they have no hope of survival.
Seventeen is a collection of short stories from among more than 100 of anita Agnihotri’s published short fiction. By turn intense, brittle, angry sad and torn apart in conflict, the stories bring out the different faces of human hardship and explore the India that is still largely unknown. Set in metros and villages, in small-town India and in international suburbia, the stories run the gamut of experiences both everyday and extraordinary. From deeply personal relationships against the backremove of turmoil to intensely social truths told through the unique life of individuals, each of these stories is a picture of human fragility. This is literary craftsmanship at its best.
Anita Agnihotri writes in Bengali. A member of the Indian Administrative Service, she has written over 25 books: poetry, short stories, novels, critical essays and children’s books. Her works have been translated into all major Indian languages, and German and Swedish.
Arunava Sinha is a translator of classic and contemporary Bengali fiction. His published translations include Three Women (Tagore), What Really Happened (Banaphool), Striker Stopper (Moti Nandy), My Kind of Girl (Buddhadeva Bose, Chowringhee (Sanker), and Seventeen (Anita Agnihotri) which was published by Zubaan.
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Launch of Seventeen, a collection of short stories by Anita Agnihotri at Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road > 6:30pm on 18th February 2012
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