Monday, April 21st, 2014 Delhi and Capitalism: What an Emerging-World Megalopolis Can Teach Us about the Future of the World

DateTimeLocation
Monday, April 21, 201412:00PM - 2:00PMSeminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Description

RANA DASGUPTA studied at the universities of Oxford and Wisconsin. He is the author of the highly praised linked short story collection, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (U.K.) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India); and Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book. Most recently, he is the author of Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi, which will be released in North America by Harper Collins in May 2014. Dasgupta is currently Distinguished Visiting Lecturer & Writer-in-Residence in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. He lives in Delhi.


Speakers

Rana Dasgupta
Author; Distinguished Visiting Lecturer & Writer-in-Residence in Modern Culture and Media, Brown University


Main Sponsor

Centre for South Asian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Department of Anthropology

Department of Comparative Literature

Asian Institute

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