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The Beautiful and the Damned: Writing about the New India

Past Series, The Writing Lives Series

dateNovember 3, 2011 timeThursday, 6:15pm EDT location Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University, The Heyman Center
Notes
  • Free and open to the public
  • No registration necessary
  • First come, first seated
  • Photo ID required for entry
Graffiti of Binayak Sen behind bars and words "Free Binayak"

Siddhartha Deb, author, most recently, of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, will deliver the inaugural talk of the Heyman Center's "Writing Lives Series." Gauri Viswanathan will serve as interlocutor and Adam Shatz will chair.

Participants
  • Featured Speaker Siddhartha Deb Associate Professor The New School
  • Interlocutor Gauri Viswanathan Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities Columbia University
  • Chair Adam Shatz Senior Editor London Review of Books
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