Toto Funds the Arts
and
Bangalore International Centre
are delighted to invite you to
the eleventh edition of TFA’s series
Creative Journeys
The Writing Life: Passion? Vocation? Profession?
by the author
Saikat Majumdar
Date: Friday, 29 April 2022. Time: 6.30 p.m.
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, 7, 4th Main Road, Stage 2 Domlur, Bengaluru 71
Saikat will be in conversation with Basav Biradar who is a writer, filmmaker and visiting faculty at Azim Premji University.
SAIKAT MAJUMDAR is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Ashoka University. His most recent book is The Middle Finger, a campus novel that examines the intricacy of the teacher-student relation through the lens of ancient myths. Previous novels include The Scent of God (2019), a story of romantic love between two boys in a Hindu monastic boarding school, and The Firebird (2015), which narrates a young boy’s destructive relation with the art form of theatre through his mother’s life as an actress. The Scent of God was one of Times of India’s Most Talked About Books of 2019 and a finalist for the inaugural Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award, and The Firebird was finalist at the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize and the Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Market. Saikat has also published a work of nonfiction, College (2018), of literary criticism, Prose of the World (2013), and a co-edited collection of essays, The Critic as Amateur (2019).
The TFA Creative Journeys is a series of talks, providing a platform for both younger and more experienced writers, filmmakers, performing artists and visual artists to speak about the influences, impulses, processes and thinking that have shaped the art they produce.
Previous speakers have been Gieve Patel, Sunil Shanbag, Surupa Sen, Jitish Kallat, Sampurna Chattarji, Susmit Sen, Neel Chaudhuri with The Tadpole Repertory, Jayant Kaikini, MD Pallavi and Benyamin.
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