Aruni Kashyap to deliver the 2024 Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature at Cornell University

The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture Series in Modern Indian Literature is made possible by a gift from the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Sumi Prabhu. Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s expansive imagination, unbounded by geopolitical boundaries, the series has regularly featured prominent writers from across South Asia and its diasporas. 

Previous speakers that were invited to give this lecture were : Pakistani-British novelist Kamila Shamsie, Tamil-Canadian poet Cheran, Man Booker Prize nominated author Anuradha Roy, Writers' Guild of Great Britain winner and Harvard English professor Neel Mukherjee, Sri Lankan-Canadian author, Shyam Selvadurai, and University of Michigan's professor Professor of South Asian Literature Christi Merril, etc. 
 

From the Cornell South Asia Program website: 

On April 12, 2024, novelist, essayist, poet and translator Aruni Kashyap will present "Sex, Sedition, and Storytelling" at 4:30 pm in the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue.

This talk will discuss Kashyap’s journey as a writer from Assam and share how growing up under the duress of state violence has shaped the literature of his home state. Kashyap will discuss how insurgency and state violence have shaped not only Assamese literature but also South Asian Literature and is re-shaping global perceptions about Indian Literature.