Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Anthology of Contemporary Indian Writing

Anthology of Contemporary Indian Writing

This program spotlights a diverse group of Indian writers invited to participate in the Belles Étrangères, a French literary festival. Featured authors include award-winning Bengali novelist and social activist Mahasweta Devi; Kannada novelist U. R. Ananthamurthy, former president of the Sahitya Akademi; Hindi stylist Krishna Baldev Vaid; Malayalam writer M. Mukundan; Marathi Dalit writer Narendra Jadhav; Hindi poet Udayan Vajpeyi; Gujarati memoirist and novelist Esther David; English-language novelists Shashi Tharoor, Anita Rau Badami, Upamanyu Chatterjee, and Shauna Singh Baldwin; and the author-illustrator duo Anushka Ravishankar and Pulak Biswas. Not available in French-speaking Canada. (93 minutes)

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Item#: BVL32652
Copyright date: ©2002
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-8263-6
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-8264-3


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