SYLB(Share Your Love for Books) Session III - Namesake- by Jhumpa Lahiri

Pals,

Sir V.S.Naipaul, RK Narayan,Amitava Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Khushwant Singh, Ved Mehta, Sunil Gangopadhya ,Arundhati Roy, Mahashweta Devi, and Krishna Sobti and the list can go on for a thousand miles without asking for water...For those of us who have an appropriate perception formed out of the intellectual reflections that pondered from Indian writings, its not an underscored fact anymore that Indian writing in English is alive and creative.
Indeed, starting with the Booker to Arundhati Roy for God Of Small Things, the Pulitzer for Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, the Onassis International Award for Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest and the Earnest Hemmingway Foundation/PEN Award for Akhil Sharma’s An Obedient Father and a slew of awards awaiting Manil Suri’s Death Of Vishnu, Indian writing in English surely has taken centre stage.
This Thursday,March 24th,2005, 5-6 pm let Rescue Stairs,4th Floor Auriga,VBIT, be the rendezvous, for we shall celebrate the litererary heritage of India in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri as narrated by Arun Das(SAP team). Arun shall present to us excerpts and explanations from Jhumpa` first novel…"The Namesake".It deals with Indian immigrants in the United States as well as their children.
The floor shall be open for discussion after Arun`s 35-40 minute presentation.

An interesting interview with Jhumpa Lahiri, on the book, shall be circulated to all attendees. All the interested SYLBers,please respond to this mail so that we can make an approximation of the number of participants. And since we have facility constraints, not more than the first 25 people can be entertained.

Sesank Kandalum
Deloitte