Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap is a writer and translator. His fiction has appeared in Pratilipi, Tehelka Magazine, The Houston Literary Review, Himal Southasian and Evergreen Review. The House With a Thousand Novels, his first novel, set in India’s northeastern state of Assam, will be published by Penguin (India) in 2013. His work has appeared in anthologies such as The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North East India, Oxford Univ Press and Writing Love : An Anthology of Indian-English Poetry, edited by Ashmi Ahluwalia, Rupa Publications. He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh in 2009 and attends the MFA program at Minnesota State University Mankato.

The Peripheral Imagination: Writing the Invisible India

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In his lecture, “The Peripheral Imagination: Writing the Invisible India”, Aruni Kashyap will talk about his journey as a writer from India’s northeast – a region that rarely finds representation in India’s literary, cultural and political discourse. He will also briefly discuss the Assamese separatist movement: the backdrop against which his forthcoming novel unfolds. The … Read more