Amitav Ghosh Reception December 7, 2012
As Club Board members and supporters, we would love for you to RSVP and attend this event in our home (with spouses) and help spread the word to any of your friends who enjoy reading novels, as well as your Indian friends. This is a rare op to meet someone so famous!
Amitav Ghosh will also describe the project that our club is involved with called, The India Project: Project Dignity.
Manish Mehta
Time: 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Location: Manish Mehta's House (RCAAN Member)
E-Mail or Contact Manish for RSVP
Amitav Ghosh’s work has been translated into more than two dozen languages and he has served on the Jury of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) and the Venice Film Festival (2001). Amitav Ghosh’s essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. His essays have been published by Penguin India (The Imam and the Indian) and Houghton Mifflin USA (Incendiary Circumstances). He has taught in many universities in India and the USA, including Delhi University, Columbia, Queens College and Harvard. In January 2007 he was given the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honours, by the President of India. In 2010, Amitav Ghosh was awarded honorary doctorates by Queens College, New York, and the Sorbonne, Paris. Along with Margaret Atwood, he was also a joint winner of a Dan David Award for 2010.