[Reader-list] Pankaj Mishra and Rana Dasgupta

[Rana Dasgupta]

*HOW TO BE MODERN *

 

Picador India invites you to a conversation between

 

*Pankaj Mishra*

author of TEMPTATIONS OF THE WEST

 

*and Rana Dasgupta*

author of TOKYO CANCELLED

 

at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Conference Room I, India International Centre

40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi

 


 

*Pankaj Mishra *is the author of /Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in 
Small Town India/, /An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World/, and a 
novel, /The Romantics/, which won the /LA Times /Art Seidenbaum award 
for first fiction. He writes for several publications, including the 
/New York Review of Books/, the /New Statesman/, /Granta/, the /Times 
Literary Supplement /and the /Guardian/. /Temptations of the West: How 
to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond /is his most recent book.

 

*Rana Dasgupta* is based between India and the UK. His first novel, 
/Tokyo Cancelled/, a thirteen-part story cycle, was published in 2005 
and has been translated into nine languages. His work has appeared in 
such places as the /Guardian/, the /New Statesman /and BBC Radio. He is 
currently at work on his second novel.