[Reader-list] Public Reading of ‘The Cosmpolitans’ with Anjum Hasan - 21st September, 2015 @ 16:30 - Venue: Radio Active, Jain University

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Kabir Khan <kabirkhan1989 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Public Reading of ‘The Cosmpolitans’ with Anjum Hasan
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> Radio Active is excited and delighted to invite you for public reading of
> ‘The Cosmopolitans’.
>
> The Cosmopolitan: The Cosmopolitan is a recently published novel written by
> Anjum Hasan. It is the story of Bangalore and a Bangalorean, Qayanat- her
> banal life surrounded by art and a long journey is full of intrigues.
>
> "Qayenaat, meanwhile, came to believe that the world was divided into
> people who performed their lives and people who were audience for this
> purpose; she with her shyness and her patchy history fell, naturally, in
> the second category."
> There is more to the story of Qayanat- the protagonist of the novel,
> according to Anjum ‘… she’s had various kinds of life experiences.... I
> think I was able to give her more depth because of the time that elapsed
> between starting and finishing her story. In all my books, I have been
> concerned with the individual—and I wondered if one could create an
> engaging character out of a woman at that stage (age 53) of her life.
> Qayenaat is steeped in the arts and she draws sustenance from it, but that
> doesn’t mean she is sorted emotionally…. She is caught between her father,
> who represents the idealism of Nehruvian era, and younger people like Baban
> Reddy, who have a different kind of confidence and a different relationship
> to India. That is a very interesting space for fiction—and while she is not
> a representative of that generation, some of her anxieties are
> generational….
>
> Some of the things I’m talking about are also current in a very general
> sense. Like money, and how it has changed contemporary India. Then there’s
> the whole urban construct, as alienating as it is fascinating. My concern
> is: Is this really the norm or is there another way of living? …’ –
> Published in Live Mint.
>
> To read more about the novel, click here...
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> https://maleccha.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/story-of-a-woman-alone-on-a-train-in-auto-concealing-dark-secrets/
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> About the Author: Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, Lunatic in My
> Head (Shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award) and Neti, Neti (long listed
> for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian
> Literature and shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize), a book of poetry
> called Street on the Hill and, most recently, a collection of short
> stories, Difficult Pleasures (Shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize and
> The Crossword Book Award). She is also the Book Editor of The Caravan – A
> Journal of Politics and Culture published by Delhi Press.
>
> Do join us for the reading. Anjum Hasan- the author will be reading
> passages from the novel. She will also be sharing her reflections during
> the discussion. Copies for the novel will be available for sale. Invitation
> is open for all.
>
> *Date: 21st September, 2015*
> *Time: 16:30*
>
> *Venue: Radio Active, Jain University, 1/1-1, Atria Towers, Palace Road,
> Bangalore-560001*
> For more details you can write to radioactivecr90.4mhz at gmail.com Or call
> Kabir +91-9663427315 or Ramya +91 9902021496
>
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> Regards
>
> कबीर/کبیر
>
> Phone:00-91-96-63-427-315
>
> email: kabirkhan1989 at gmail.com
>
> email: maleccha at live.com
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