Books2024

Indo-American Arts Council

Literary Festival 2024

International House
500 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027-3916
212-316-8400
(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)
November 9-10, 2024

(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)

For Parking Directions at venue, click here.

12:00 – 12:50 PM

Swallowing the Sun: A Novel – Author Ambassador Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri in conversation with Roopa Unnikrishnan

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02:00 – 02:50 PM

The Laughter – Author Sonora Jha in conversation with Sayu Bhojwani

03:00 – 03:50 PM

Missy – Author Raghav Rao and The Best Possible Experience – Author Nishanth Injam in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape

04:00 – 04:50 PM

Author Beena Kamlani discusses  – The English Problem

05:00 – 05:50 PM

My Beloved Life – Author Amitava Kumar in conversation with Beena Kamlani

11:00 – 11:50 AM

Author Brook EddySTEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur and Author Chef Asma KhanMonsoon in conversation with Nisha Vedi Pawar

12.00 – 12.50 PM

Book Talk: The Jaipur Trilogy Author Alka Joshi in conversation with Shanelle Kaul

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02.00 – 02.50 PM

The Kannada Mahabharata – Editor S. N. Sridhar and Translator Narayan Hegde in conversation with Anand Rao

03.00 – 03.50 PM

The Fight Against Alzheimer’s Author Dr. Shuvendu Sen and My Fathers Brain Author Dr. Sandeep Jauhar in conversation with Sanat Chattopadhya

04.00 – 04.50 PM

A Nest of Vipers Author Harini Nagendra in conversation with Shiv Rao

05.00 – 05:50 PM

INDUSTRY PANEL:

Literary Agent Priya Doraswamy and Editor Lucia Macro in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape

12.00 – 12.50 PM

When Children Have Children: Tipping Point to End Child Marriage Author Bhuwan Ribhu in conversation with Dr. Dinesh Khosla

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02.00 – 02.50 PM

Sixteen Stormy Days: Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution – Author Tripurdaman Singh in conversation with Venkat Dhulipala

04.00 – 04.50 PM

Yaar Papa Author Divya Prakash Dubey in conversation with Anoop Bhargava
(The session is in Hindi)

04.00 – 05:50 PM

POETRY
****PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD AT THE PUB AT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
Poets Diane Mehta, Guillermo Rodriguez Martin, Anand Thakore, Krishna Ramanujan, and Kashiana Singh with join Ravi Shankar for a special panel discussing identity, language, and creative expression.

To end the evening on an exciting note, the festival will host a poetry slam where emerging poets and spoken word artists will compete to win a $100 prize and a signed first edition of one of the featured poets works.

Poets Krishna Ramunajan / Guillermo Rodriguez / Anand Thakore / Diane Mehta / Kashiana Singh
in conversation with Ravi Shankar

05.00 – 05:50 PM

Myself Lost Author Larry Bone and Departures: a Journey With India Author Shaun Fynn in conversation with IAAC Vice Chairman, Rakesh Kaul

12.00 – 12.50 PM

The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World Author Karthik Ramanna and The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out Author Ramesh Srinivasan in conversation with Mathew Veedon

01.00 PM – 01:50 PM

For Now, It Is Night: Stories Translator Kalpana Raina in conversation with Padma Shri Subhash Kak

2.00 PM – 02:50 PM

The Vivekananda Handbook Author Anshul Chaturvedi in conversation with Swami Sarvapriyananda

12.00 – 12.50 PM

Amil and The After Author Veera Hiranandani in conversation with Raakhee Mirchandani

01.00 – 01:50 PM

Sad Glad – Author Sidhartha Mallya in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal

2.00 PM- 02:50 PM

I am a Lotus Author Anu Sehgal and Knotty Knots Author Naumi Kak in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal

Indo-American Arts Council

Literary Festival 2024

International House
500 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027-3916
212-316-8400
(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)
November 9-10, 2024

(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)

For Parking Directions at venue, click here.

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12:00 – 12:50 PM

Swallowing the Sun: A Novel – Author Ambassador Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri in conversation with Roopa Unnikrishnan

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02:00 – 02:50 PM

The Laughter – Author Sonora Jha in conversation with Sayu Bhojwani

03:00 – 03:50 PM

Missy – Author Raghav Rao and The Best Possible Experience – Author Nishanth Injam in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape

04:00 – 04:50 PM

Author Beena Kamlani discusses  – The English Problem

05:00 – 05:50 PM

My Beloved Life – Author Amitava Kumar in conversation with Beena Kamlani

11:00 – 11:50 AM

Author Brook EddySTEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur and Author Chef Asma KhanMonsoon in conversation with Nisha Vedi Pawar

12.00 – 12.50 PM

Book Talk: The Jaipur Trilogy Author Alka Joshi in conversation with Shanelle Kaul

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02.00 – 02.50 PM

The Kannada Mahabharata – Editor S. N. Sridhar and Translator Narayan Hegde in conversation with Anand Rao

03.00 – 03.50 PM

The Fight Against Alzheimer’s Author Dr. Shuvendu Sen and My Fathers Brain Author Dr. Sandeep Jauhar in conversation with Sanat Chattopadhya

04.00 – 04.50 PM

A Nest of Vipers Author Harini Nagendra in conversation with Shiv Rao

05.00 – 05:50 PM

INDUSTRY PANEL:

Literary Agent Priya Doraswamy and Editor Lucia Macro in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape

12.00 – 12.50 PM

When Children Have Children: Tipping Point to End Child Marriage Author Bhuwan Ribhu in conversation with Dr. Dinesh Khosla

Break – 1.00 – 2.00 PM

02.00 – 02.50 PM

Sixteen Stormy Days: Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution – Author Tripurdaman Singh in conversation with Venkat Dhulipala

04.00 – 04.50 PM

Yaar Papa Author Divya Prakash Dubey in conversation with Anoop Bhargava
(The session is in Hindi)

04.00 – 05:50 PM

POETRY
****PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD AT THE PUB AT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
Poets Diane Mehta, Guillermo Rodriguez Martin, Anand Thakore, Krishna Ramanujan, and Kashiana Singh with join Ravi Shankar for a special panel discussing identity, language, and creative expression.

To end the evening on an exciting note, the festival will host a poetry slam where emerging poets and spoken word artists will compete to win a $100 prize and a signed first edition of one of the featured poets works.

Poets Krishna Ramunajan / Guillermo Rodriguez / Anand Thakore / Diane Mehta / Kashiana Singh
in conversation with Ravi Shankar

05.00 – 05:50 PM

Myself Lost Author Larry Bone and Departures: a Journey With India Author Shaun Fynn in conversation with IAAC Vice Chairman, Rakesh Kaul

12.00 – 12.50 PM

The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World Author Karthik Ramanna and The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out Author Ramesh Srinivasan in conversation with Mathew Veedon

01.00 PM – 01:50 PM

For Now, It Is Night: Stories Translator Kalpana Raina in conversation with Padma Shri Subhash Kak

2.00 PM – 02:50 PM

The Vivekananda Handbook Author Anshul Chaturvedi in conversation with Swami Sarvapriyananda

12.00 – 12.50 PM

Amil and The After Author Veera Hiranandani in conversation with Raakhee Mirchandani

01.00 – 01:50 PM

Sad Glad – Author Sidhartha Mallya in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal

2.00 PM- 02:50 PM

I am a Lotus Author Anu Sehgal and Knotty Knots Author Naumi Kak in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal

Indo-American Arts Council

Literary Festival 2024

International House
500 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027-3916
212-316-8400
(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)
November 9-10, 2024

(All sessions are FREE and OPEN to the public. Please RSVP.)

Saturday, 09 November 2024
11.00 – 11.50 AM

Chef Asma Khan

Book Talk: Monsoon

Asma Khan returns with a masterclass on building flavour in your cooking through the intuitive principles of Indian cookery.

Structured around the six core ayurvedic tastes, namely: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal, this book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving you the foundations you need to build balanced flavours, dishes and sumptuous feasts.

With core techniques including roasting, grinding and tempering spices, how to cook with ghee, chillies, and onions, and what to add and when to re-balance flavours in a dish, Asma will empower home cooks to apply fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking. Including 80 flavourful recipes for Chicken Cooked in Pickling Spices and Slow-cooked Lamb with Vinegar, to the more veg-forward Pumpkin Dal, and Rice Pulao with Oranges, this book seeks to honour traditional cooking techniques and ayurvedic principles and ground them in the modern kitchen.

Brook Eddy

Book Talk: STEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur

Brook Eddy is the founder and CEO of Bhakti, Inc., best known for award-winning chai, innovative iced tea beverages that won first place in the North American Tea Championship, and being one of the first Certified B Corporations in America. As CEO, Brook was responsible for implementing all business strategies for building a national brand and launched over 18 SKU’s.

Brook’s first book, STEEPED: Adventures Of A Tea Entrepreneur, which is part business memoir and part India travelogue, was a #1 New Release on Amazon and chosen by Colorado Public Radio as one of their “Favorite Books in 2023.” She is also a copywriter and has written for Yoga Journal and Mantra Magazine. She has a graduate degree from the University of Michigan and was a top three finalist for the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by Entrepreneur magazine. Brook also founded GITA Giving, a platform for supporting women and girls globally.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
12:00 – 12:50 PM

Ambassador Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri

Book Talk: Swallowing the Sun

Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri has been an Indian Foreign Service diplomat for twenty-eight years. She served in leadership positions at the United Nations for fifteen years, most recently as its Assistant Secretary General. She was a leader in the first global organization to promote gender equality—UNWOMEN, for seven foundational years. She is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, among others.

In conversation with

Roopa Unnikrishnan

Roopa Unnikrishnan is a NYC-based author and Chief Innovation Officer for IDEX, an industrials, critical components and life sciences company.

Writing has been core to Roopa's life and work, with her musings on innovation and change that she initially posted on her blog soon progressing to articles in Knowledge@Wharton and the Economic Times. As the insights grew, The Career Press published her first book, “The Career Catapult: Shakeup the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory” (2017). It's a showcase of strategic insight and storytelling. Roopa's book received the gold Independent Press Award for career books and was published in a Mandarin-edition by a leading press in China (2018).

Roopa is currently working on a literary novel, Love and Loss among the Jacarandas, which she describes as Sujata Massey’s The Bombay Prince meets the Hulu series Only Murders In The Building. Set in post-colonial 1960s India, the book captures daily life in a southern backwater where the exuberance of independence and the sexual revolution was crashing headlong into ancient traditions – with women and their bodies at the epicenter of that conflict.

Roopa is an Arjuna Award winner (India’s sports hall of fame) for her accomplishments representing India in rifle shooting, with gold medals and records at the Commonwealth, Asian and South Asian levels. A Rhodes Scholar with an MPhil and an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford, she is also a published poet. She has served as past (and first female) President of TiE’s NY chapter, a group focused on fostering entrepreneurship, and was previously bard chair of Sakhi for South Asian Women, which works to end domestic violence.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
12.00 – 12.50 PM

Alka Joshi

Book Talk: The Jaipur Trilogy

Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and an Amazon and Goodreads favorite. It was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and has been translated into 29 languages. It’s currently in development at Netflix as an episodic series. Alka’s writing career began at the age of 62. In 2023, Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms across America. Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, releases April 15, 2025.

In conversation with

Shanelle Kaul

Shanelle Kaul is a correspondent for CBS News and anchor of the network’s overnight broadcast, the CBS News Roundup. Prior to joining CBS News, Shanelle spent a decade reporting and anchoring across Canada, most recently at CP24, Toronto's #1 Breaking News Channel.

Born in Sri Lanka, Shanelle grew up in Toronto and is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism. She returned to campus in 2021 to teach news production to second-year students. As a child of immigrant parents who fled war-torn countries, Shanelle is passionate about human rights and social justice issues.

Shanelle is also a board member with the Newswomen’s Club of New York, serving as the VP of Programming.

You'll find Shanelle's work on CBS Mornings, the CBS Evening News, CBS Saturday Morning, and CBS News 24/7.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
12:00 – 12:50 PM

Bhuwan Ribhu

Book Talk: When Children Have Children: Tipping Point to End Child Marriage

Bhuwan Ribhu is a child rights activist and one of the most prolific lawyers in India working for the protection of women and children. His contributions span laws related to child sexual abuse, missing children, trafficking, child labour, child marriage, bonded labour, modern slavery, online child safety, education and drug abuse among children. Mr. Ribhu holds a degree in law from the University of Delhi and is a registered advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi.

In conversation with

Dr. Dinesh Khosla

Dinesh Khosla is a Professor Emeritus of Law at CUNY Law School, he was a founding faculty member dedicated to training social justice lawyers. As founder of the Hindu Samaj Temple, he promotes unity in diversity and community service. He also chairs TAARA, which supports trafficked women, and the Artistic Freedom Initiative, which has resettled over 3,000 at-risk artists. With advanced degrees from Yale Law School, he has taught human rights internationally and authored two books. Additionally, he runs SDK Properties, employing over 100 people, and leads the SDK Foundation, which supports projects focused on human dignity.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
02.00 – 02.50 PM

Sonora Jha

Book Talk: The Laughter

Sonora Jha is the author of three books, the latest of which is the novel The Laughter, which won the 2024 Washington Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, NPR, and others. The Laughter has been described by The New York Times as “a no holds barred comic achievement” and by Booklist as “a complete triumph.” It also won the AutHer Prize for Fiction and was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. After a career in journalism in India and Singapore, Sonora moved to the U.S. to earn a PhD in Political Communication and is now a professor and associate dean at Seattle University. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies at Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Playa Summer Lake, Richard Hugo House, and Residency L’Ancienne Auberge in France.

In conversation with

Sayu Bhojwani

Dr. Sayu Bhojwani is a trailblazing speaker, writer and civic entrepreneur. She has founded and led three organizations, all the first of their kind and all focused on increasing belonging and inclusion among youth, immigrants and women. Born in India, and raised in Belize, she is a proud New Yorker who served as the City’s first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs. She is currently an Open Society Foundations Equality Fellow and is writing a book on how everyday Americans can reclaim democracy. She is also an emerging fiction writer whose stories draw on the lilting sounds and diverse cultures of the Caribbean and the oral traditions of her ancestors. She explores themes of duty, repressed and realized sexuality, and migration, and like many of her generation, is obsessed with the Partition and the unresolved trauma it has caused.

Dr. Bhojwani’s TED talk has been viewed over a million times and her first book, People Like Us: The New Wave of Candidates Knocking at Democracy’s Door (New Press, 2018) was described by Kirkus as “an astute appraisal of how the state of American democracy is being preserved by unexpected political newcomers.” She has been widely published in or appeared on national news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC and writes frequently on Medium and No. 1 Immigrant Daughter. She holds a PhD in Politics and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, lives in New York City and serves on the boards of the Center for Fiction and chairs the North Star Fund.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
02.00 – 02.50 PM

Prof. S. N. Sridhar

Book Talk: The Kannada Mahabharata

Professor S.N. Sridhar is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies at Stony Brook University, where he has been teaching since 1980.He graduated from Central College, Bangalore University, with a B.A. (Honors) and M.A. in English literature and linguistics with a first class and the first rank for the University. He did a Ph.D. in Linguistics with distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Professor S.N. Sridhar is an internationally recognized expert on multilingualism, Indian linguistics, World Englishes, and Kannada. His research concerns many areas, including: bilingualism (language contact and convergence); sociolinguistics of code-switching and code-mixing, language modernization, language spread; second language acquisition in non-native settings; Indian English and other World Englishes; reference grammar of Kannada (syntax, morphology, social dimensions); psycholinguistics (sentence production, code-mixing), applied linguistics (scope and relation to linguistic theory), historical linguistics (acquisition of subjecthood, contact-induced language change), and history of linguistics (Indian grammatical tradition). Currently, he is working on a monograph on multilingualism in India and another on the classic Kannada poet Kumara Vyasa and another on multilingualism in India. He heads an international consortium of scholars translating the Kannada classic Mahabharata by Kumaravyasa into English, to be published in three volumes in the Murthy Classical Library by Harvard University.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is author of three books: Kannada: Descriptive Grammar (Routledge, 1990 and Manohar 2001), Cognition and Sentence Production: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Springer Verlag, 1986), and India Kannada (Contemporary Kannada, Kannada University, 1995 and Abhinava, 2009); co-editor of two reference volumes ( Ananya: A Portrait of India (AIA, 1997), and Language in South Asia (Cambridge, 2008) and seven special issues of journals, and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.

Professor S.N. Sridhar’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He was designated Senior/Superior Scholar in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many international conferences, including the Linguistic Society of India in 2013, and member of editorial board of journals, evaluator of publication projects and academic programs. He was conferred the select faculty rank of Distinguished Service Professor by the State University of New York in 2011. He is Vice-President and President Elect of the International Association of World Englishes.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is a co-founder of South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) and organized its international conferences at Stony Brook in 1983 and 2004. He has also organized or co-organized conferences on Dravidian Linguistics, India Studies, the Teaching of Linguistics, and Teaching of Asian Languages.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is the founding Director of the Center for India Studies at Stony Brook, which has evolved over two decades into a national model of Indian American community-public university partnership in developing India Studies. He also served as the Founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies from 2002-2008.Professor S.N. Sridhar is also active in the community. He founded the India Society of Stony Brook in 1989 and served as its first President until 1994. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Indians in America and of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Board of Governors of the Indo-American Arts Council, New York.He lives in Stony Brook with his wife and collaborator, Professor Kamal (Meena) Sridhar.

Prof. Narayan Hegde

Book Talk: The Kannada Mahabharata

Professor Narayan Hegde is Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY College at Old Westbury, where he taught English, Indian, and World Literatures. As a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he has translated several works of Kannada literature, including Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories by U. R. Ananthamurthy, Annayya's Anthropology by A. K. Ramanujan, and a 19th-century drama, The Marriage Farce of Iggappa Hegade. He is a recipient of the Katha Translation Award. Translation of Avasthe, a Kannada novel by the eminent Indian author, U.R.Ananthamurthy, was recently published by HarperCollins India. He is currently part of a team translating the 15th century Kannada epic Kumaravyasa Bharatha for publication by Harvard University Press in its Murty Classical Library of India series.

In conversation with

Anand Rao

Born and raised in Bangalore, India, Anand Rao has been an actor, writer, and director in Kannada and English theatre for close to 3 decades. In the early 2000s, he was a regular on Kannada TV, playing prominent roles in popular daily soaps while balancing a career in advertising, media, and communications.

Currently a full-time writer and director based in New Jersey; he is the author of the critically acclaimed play ‘A Muslim in the Midst’ that opened at NYC's Hudson Guild in 2016 to houseful shows. A writer with a wide range of interests, he has translated and adapted several plays between Kannada and English. Adaptations from Kannada to English include Sri Ranga’s Sampaddharma, and Poorna Chandra Tejaswi’s Mayamruga. He adapted Mahesh Dattani’s classic English play Dance Like a Man to Kannada and directed its successful opening production in Bangalore in September 2022. He is the writer of the English TV series ‘Vernacular’ based on the 1931 India Press Act, which is currently awaiting pre-production. He is the founder of Nammerica, a one of its kind digital platform in Kannada that among others organized the first-ever virtual Kannada international theatre festival.

Anand has an M.B.A. from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. An M.A., and B.A., in English Literature from Bangalore University, and advanced studies in Journalism and Public Relations.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
02.00 – 02.50 PM

Tripurdaman Singh

Book Talk: Sixteen Stormy Days: Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution

Tripurdaman Singh is a historian and writer, and currently an Ambizione Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of London, and has held visiting fellowships at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme in Paris, and the University of Basel in Switzerland. His books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Nehru (William Collins, 2021) and the Ram Nath Goenka Award-winning Sixteen Stormy Days (Bloomsbury, 2024). In 2024 he was awarded the Dan David Prize for ‘outstanding contribution to scholarship that illuminates the past’. Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting history of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India, one of the most pivotal events in Indian political and constitutional history. Passed in June 1951 in the face of tremendous opposition within and outside Parliament, the subject of some of independent India’s fiercest parliamentary debates, the First Amendment drastically curbed freedom of speech; enabled caste-based reservation by restricting freedom against discrimination; circumscribed the right to property and validated abolition of the zamindari system; and fashioned a special schedule of unconstitutional laws immune to judicial challenge. Enacted months before India’s inaugural election, the amendment represents the most profound changes that the Constitution has ever seen. What extraordinary set of events led to India’s Constitution, dubbed the ‘world’s greatest experiment in liberal democracy’ at its birth in 1950, being so radically amended in 1951? Exploring the First Amendment’s stormy past and its contentious present, and drawing on parliamentary debates, press reports, judicial pronouncements, official correspondence and existing scholarship, Sixteen Stormy Days challenges conventional wisdom on iconic figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Patel and Shyama Prasad Mookerji, and lays bare the vast gulf between the liberal promise of India’s Constitution and the authoritarian impulses of her first government. TRIPURDAMAN SINGH is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. Born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, and subsequently earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge, UK. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Leiden and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Tripurdaman’s books include Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (2019) and Nehru (2021).

In conversation with

Dr. Venkat Dhulipala

Dr. Venkat Dhulipala is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India (Cambridge University Press, 2015). It was cited as the Best Book in Global Non-fiction for 2015 by Newsweek besides being widely reviewed and debated in various newspapers and magazines in India, Pakistan and the U.S. He is currently completing his second book titled Between Yan’an, Pakistan, and Hindustan: Communism, Islamism and Indian Nationalism in Hyderabad. Dr Dhulipala was awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2022-23 for this book project. His essays have appeared in premier journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Etudes Asiatiques, and Islamic Studies. Dr. Dhulipala has an M.A (Political Science) from the University of Hyderabad, an M.A (South Asian Studies) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D (History) from the University of Minnesota.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
03.00 – 03.50 PM

Raghav Rao

Book Talk: Missy

Raghav Rao is a Chicago-based writer. Born in Mumbai, he grew up in London, Los Angeles, and Southern India. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His debut novel, MISSY, is forthcoming in September 2024 with Penguin Random House (India) - Vintage Books and Hera Books (UK & Commonwealth). He enjoys bird-watching, biking, and playing squash. His newsletter on information saturation is available at raghavrao.substack.com

Nishanth Injam

Book Talk: The Best Possible Experience

NISHANTH INJAM received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michi­gan. He received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award from the Key West Literary Seminar. His work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review (which won the 2022 ASME Award for Fiction for its publication of his story), Catapult’s Best Debut Short Stories 2021, and The Best American Magazine Writing 2022. Born in Telangana, India, he now lives in Chicago.

In conversation with

Prof. Makarand Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is currently Director of Education, Access Health Care Physicians, Spring Hill, Florida. Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly 25 years, he also served as Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) and held several fellowships/visiting professorships including the inaugural India Chair at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, the Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, the CAPES Visiting Professorship at the University of São Paulo and Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the inaugural Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in World Literature at the University of Tuebingen. The author/editor of over 50 books, he has published over 200 academic papers/book chapters, and over a thousand newspaper/periodical essays and op-eds. His ongoing columns include “Soft Power” (Open magazine), “Right Turn” (Gulf News), “Truth or Dare” (ToI Plus), and “US Sutra” (FirstPost). His latest books include Mahatma Gandhi: Mrityu aur Punarutthan (Penguin Swadesh), Identity’s Last Secret (BluOne Ink), and Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity (HarperCollins).

Saturday, 09 November 2024
03.00 – 03.50 PM

Dr. Shuvendu Sen

Book Talk: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s

Dr. Shuvendu Sen, received the Men of Distinction Award from NY State Senate, the Nautilus Award and the Pushcart Award nomination. He has contributed to The Times of India, The Telegraph, The Daily News, BBC and The Star-Ledger. His recent book, The Fight Against Alzheimer's is an Amazon best-seller ranking # 1 under Mental Health. A documentary made on his works has been screened at the United Nations and at the Marche du Films, Cannes Film Festival.

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar

Book Talk: My Father’s Brain

Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. MY FATHER'S BRAIN, his latest book, is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease. It was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, and wass a Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023. Jauhar's first book, INTERN, was an international bestseller and was optioned by NBC for a dramatic TV series. His second book, DOCTORED, was a NYT bestseller and was named a NY Post Best Book of 2014. HEART: A HISTORY, his third book, was named a best book of 2018 by Science Friday, UK's The Mail on Sunday, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was the PBS NewsHour/NYT book club pick for January 2019; it was also a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize. A practicing physician, Jauhar writes regularly for the opinion section of the NY Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched of 2019.

In conversation with

Sanat Chattopadhyay

Sanat Chattopadhyay is executive vice president and president, Merck Manufacturing Division. He has responsibility for the company’s worldwide manufacturing and supply operations across a global network of sites for pharmaceuticals, vaccines, biologics and animal health products.

A proven leader in the biopharmaceutical industry, Sanat joined Merck in November 2009 as senior vice president of global vaccines and sterile manufacturing operations, spearheading the transformation of manufacturing and supply chain to grow and globalize its vaccine business. Under Sanat’s leadership, Merck is currently executing significant expansion of its biologics and vaccines manufacturing capacity to reach more patients around the globe.

Before joining Merck, he served as senior vice president, technical operations and product supply, for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, with responsibility for product supply, process development and operational excellence. Previously, he worked at Aventis and its predecessor companies as senior vice president, industrial operations, having served in many positions with increasing responsibilities for global supply chain, technology and manufacturing sites across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. A graduate chemical engineer from Jadavpur University and post-graduate industrial engineer from NITIE, India, Sanat is widely travelled, having lived with his family in five countries across three continents.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
04.00 – 04.50 PM

Harini Nagendra

Book Talk: A Nest of Vipers

Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji University, and a well-known public speaker and writer on issues of nature and sustainability. She is internationally recognized for her scholarship on sustainability, with honors that include the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences, the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award, and the 2017 Clarivate Web of Science award for interdisciplinary research in India.

Her non-fiction books include Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future, and three books co-authored with Seema Mundoli – Shades of Blue: Connecting the Drops in India’s Cities, So Many Leaves, and Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities, which received the 2020 Publishing Next Awards for best English non-fiction book in India, and was featured on the 2021 Green Literature Festival’s honor list. The Bangalore Detectives Club was her first crime fiction novel. The sequel, Murder Under a Red Moon, was published in 2023, and the third book, A Nest of Vipers, will be out in May 2024.

Harini lives in Bangalore with her family, in a home filled with maps. She loves trees, mysteries, and traditional recipes.

In conversation with

Shiv Rao

Shiv Rao is a lover of mystery novels who has the misfortune of having to make a living in the prosaic world of finance. He admires and respects authors of all genres, but especially those who are able to keep readers guessing “whodunnit”?

Saturday, 09 November 2024
04.00 – 04.50 PM

Beena Kamlani

Book Talk: The English Problem

Beena Kamlani will begin by discussing her background as an editor in book publishing, where she became the first Indian to hold such a position in American book publishing (Sonny Mehta arrived a few years later). She has worked with numerous notable authors and has edited biographies of figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry James, as well as Basquiat and Hemingway, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and David Foster Wallace. Her portfolio spans memoirs, histories, literary and commercial novels, and poetry. Over three decades, she has collaborated with some of the finest literary minds, including Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, Robert Fagles (renowned translator of Homer, Virgil, and Sophocles), and bestselling authors like Terry McMillan and Jacqueline Mitchard. She would like to demystify the art of editing and share her experience teaching young editors about the craft. This would lead into her life as a writer, introducing her forthcoming novel, The English Problem, followed by a 10-15 minute reading. Afterward, the session will be open to audience questions.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
04.00 – 04.50 PM (The session is in Hindi)

Divya Prakash Dubey

Book Talk: Yaar Papa

Manoj Salve, India's top lawyer, faces a career-shattering revelation: his law degree is fake. Amidst media frenzy and estrangement from his daughter Sasha, he returns to college, battling personal and professional demons. Will Manoj reclaim his legacy and mend the bond with Sasha? Divya Prakash Dubey, a distinguished author, has penned 7 bestsellers, captivating readers with his literary prowess. His 7 audio shows on Amazon Audible have garnered immense love and popularity. Notably, he has contributed dialogues to the films PS1 & PS2, directed by the renowned Mani Ratnam, and to the web series "Dr. Arora," created by Imtiaz Ali on Sonyliv. Having previously excelled as a Corporate Marketing professional and content editor at a leading channel, Divya Prakash now dedicates himself entirely to writing. He crafts compelling narratives for movies, web series, and audio shows through his writer's room. He represents a new wave of Hindi authors who are reshaping the landscape of literature, rewriting the rules of the game.

In conversation with

Anoop Bhargava

Anoop Bhargava is a Technology person by profession and a poet by heart. From his early childhood, he was fascinated by Hindi poetry and wrote his first poem at the tender age of 9. Anoop did his Engineering from prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and master’s in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Anoop came to the United States in 1983 but kept his love for poetry alive. Due to his technical background, Anoop realized the importance of internet early and founded a Yahoo group called ‘eKavita’ in 2003 to share and spread poetry through the use of emails. Today after 17 years, eKavita is one of the most vibrant groups related to poetry with more than 700 active members from all over the world. Anoop has also been associated with ‘Kavita Kosh’ – the biggest collection of Poetry on the Internet since its early days and contributed to its success between 2008-2011. In 2007, Anoop was awarded “Hindi Videsh Prasar Samman” by ‘Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan’ for his contribution in promoting Hindi outside of India. In 2015, Anoop was given “Vishwa Hindi Samman” by Government of India. He was invited to Bhopal where 10th Vishwa Hindi Sammelan was held in September 2015. It was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the award was given by Mr. Raj Nath Singh - the home minister of India. Anoop had been behind many innovative initiatives like eKavita, eChintan, Kavita Ki Paathshala, Jhilmil and ‘Hindi Se Pyar Hai. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Hindi Magazine ‘Ananya’ (अनन्य) published from the official website of ‘Consulate General of India- New York’. Ananya is currently published from New York and twelve other countries in the world. Anoop was a member of the ‘Core Organizing Committee’ for Eighth World Hindi Conference held in New York City in 2007. Anoop was invited to Eleventh World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius in 2018 and to 12th World Hindi Conference held in Fiji in 2022. He was a featured speaker at both these conferences. In March 2021, World Hindi Secretariat in Mauritius recognized his contribution to the promotion of Hindi language throughout the world and appointed him the International Coordinator for promotion of Hindi. Anoop believes that the Internet and latest computer technology can play an important role in spreading Hindi across the globe and has been working aggressively on several projects to realize this goal.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
05.00 – 05:50 PM

Amitava Kumar

Book Talk: My Beloved Life

Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. His novel Immigrant, Montana was on the best of the year lists at The New Yorker, The New York Times, and President Obama’s list of favorite books of 2018. His 2021 novel A Time Outside This Time was described by the New Yorker magazine as “a shimmering assault on the Zeitgeist.” Kumar’s latest novel is My Beloved Life and was described by James Wood as “beautiful, truthful fiction.” Kumar's work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Harper’s, BRICK, Guernica, The Nation and several other publications. He has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and was a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library for 2023-24. He is a professor of English at Vassar College.

In conversation with

Beena Kamlani

Beena Kamlani is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review; Ploughshares; Identity Lessons: Learning to Be American, eds. Gillan (1999); Growing Up Ethnic in America, eds. Gillan (2000); The Lifted Brow (2008); World Literature Today; and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. A former senior editor for the Penguin Group, she taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades and was presented an award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel.

INDUSTRY PANEL:
Saturday, 09 November 2024

05.00 – 05:50 PM

Priya Doraswamy

Priya Doraswamy founded the Lotus Lane Literary agency in 2013. She is passionate and dedicated to the intentional expansion of diversity and inclusivity in the publishing and film/tv industries. She has sold hundreds of works of fiction and non-fiction globally. Her clients have won several prestigious awards including long listed for the Booker Prize, The National Book Award, and The Faulkner Pen America Prize. Among her many exciting projects, she's proud to be an Executive Producer on 2024 Oscar nominated documentary To Kill A Tiger. Priya serves on the Board and on the Contracts Committee of the American Association of Literary Agents. She is also a member of the Women's Media Group.

Lucia Macro

After graduating with a B.A. in English from Fordham University, it seemed like a natural choice for Lucia Macro to embark on a publishing career. She honed her skills working at Harlequin Books, and later joined Avon Books to help develop their general fiction and romance lists. She later edited a wide range of contemporary and historical commercial fiction for both the William Morrow and Avon imprints of HarperCollins. Over a period of 25 years, Lucia has published over thousand books. Most recently, Independence, a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakurni which Lucia acquired, edited and published won the 2024 American Book Award.

In conversation with

Prof. Makarand Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is currently Director of Education, Access Health Care Physicians, Spring Hill, Florida. Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly 25 years, he also served as Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) and held several fellowships/visiting professorships including the inaugural India Chair at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, the Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, the CAPES Visiting Professorship at the University of São Paulo and Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the inaugural Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in World Literature at the University of Tuebingen. The author/editor of over 50 books, he has published over 200 academic papers/book chapters, and over a thousand newspaper/periodical essays and op-eds. His ongoing columns include “Soft Power” (Open magazine), “Right Turn” (Gulf News), “Truth or Dare” (ToI Plus), and “US Sutra” (FirstPost). His latest books include Mahatma Gandhi: Mrityu aur Punarutthan (Penguin Swadesh), Identity’s Last Secret (BluOne Ink), and Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity (HarperCollins).

Saturday, 09 November 2024
04.00 – 05:50 PM

POETRY

Guillermo Rodríguez

Book Talk: Soma: Poems by A.K. Ramanujan

Guillermo Rodríguez, an active promoter of Indo-Spanish cultural relations, is the founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering cultural centre in Spain, which has become the model for India's cultural diplomacy abroad. A passionate traveller, it was during an overland trip to India in the early 1990s that he chanced upon A.K. Ramanujan’s poetry and translations, an interest that evolved into a PhD. on the poet-scholar, obtained from the University of Kerala and University of Valladolid. He is the author of When Mirrors Are Windows. A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics (2016) and co-editor of Journeys. A Poet’s Diary by A.K. Ramanujan (2019).

Krishna Ramanujan

Book Talk: Soma: Poems by A.K. Ramanujan

Krishna Ramanujan is a science writer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Coupled with life-long literary interests, he has worked as a writer for Earthwatch Radio, NASA and Cornell University, and has published more than 2,000 news stories on topics related to climate change, ecology, biology and genetics. He is the winner of the State University of New York Award for Excellence in Writing (2022), and co-editor of Journeys. A Poet’s Diary by A.K. Ramanujan (2019). He is the son of AK Ramanujan.

Anand Thakore

Book Talk: Three Indian Poets

Anand Thakore is the author of six books of verse, a number of critical essays on music and poetry and a pamphlet of 'Khayal' lyrics in Hindi. Arundhati Subramaniam has published 13 books. Her first UK collection, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2009. When God Is a Traveller followed in 2014. A Poetry Book Society Choice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, When God Is a Traveller won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, and the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Diane Mehta

Book Talk: Tiny Extravaganzas

The poems in Mehta's collection are miniaturist epics that respond to a difficult world with experiments and surprises. The book emerges from Mehta's attention to the ways that art concentrates experience. It's a love song to middle age, unwelcome and untidy. She demonstrates how observation counterpoints tragedy, and how tiny poems can be orchestral. Her mixed-race immigrant background shapes her decision to make the American sentence a place of exploration and conflict. Every poem hinges on a double narrative of grief and art. Mehta uses this as a framework for designing a new kind of poetry collection that is defined by its tension. Mehta jazzes up a lament to celebrate how love has a rhythm and texture that gives meaning to grief, and slows a meditation to draw out the palpably energizing moments of daily life. Radicalized by the belief that grief and art have no limits, she anchored these ideas in a collection about the ways that the imagination can make sense of experience. Diane Mehta was born in Frankfurt, grew up in Bombay and New Jersey, studied in Boston, and now makes her home in New York City. Books include an essay collection (University of Georgia Press, 2025), two poetry collections, Tiny Extravaganzas (Arrowsmith Press, 2023), Forest with Castanets (Four Way Books, 2019), and a literary guide, How to Write Poetry (2005). She is finishing a novel set in 1946-7 Mumbai that folds in events from the partitions of India and Palestine. Her work has been recognized by fellowships at Civitella Ranieri and Yaddo, the Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and the Peter Heinegg Literary Award. She was an editor at A Public Space, PEN America, and Guernica. She publishes poetry, essays, and criticism for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Kenyon Review, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, and A Public Space. She is collaborating with musicians to invent a new way of working through sound together, with two artists on a lifelong reading of Dante’s Commedia, and with the New Chamber Ballet in Brooklyn.

Kashiana Singh

Book Talk: Woman by the door

It is often said that distance offers clarity and equilibrium. In this collection, the distance could be a few decades or a few days depending on where the poem finds its occasion. In a nutshell therefore I would say that 'Woman by the door' gathers poems about memory, grief, , hope. These poems explore universal themes of identity, culture and home. These poems like the quintessential woman are always at the dehleez/threshold/doorway, in search of new beginnings, new meaning. When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Her second full-length collection, Woman by the Door was released in 2022 with Apprentice House Press and her newest full-length collection, Witching Hour is coming out in 2024 with Glass Lyre Press. She proudly serves as President for North Carolina Poetry Society and Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News.

In conversation with

Ravi Shankar

Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over fifteen books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of a Goddess' (Zubaan/University of Chicago), 'The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas) and 'The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997-2017' (Recent Works Press). Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond" and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat. He has taught and performed around the world and currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney. His collaborative chapbook, 'A Field Guide to Southern China' written with T.S. Eliot Prize winner George Szirtes was just published in the UK August 2019 by Eyewear Publishing.

Poetry Slam

As part of its 2024 Literary Festival, the Indo-American Arts Council announces a spoken word slam to be held at International House on Saturday, Nov. 9th. Performers of all ages and races are welcome so long as the content or creator reflects Indian culture. No screeds or rants or sermons please. The panel will be judged by an internationally acclaimed group of poets and the winner will receive $100 and a signed first edition.

Saturday, 09 November 2024
5.00 – 5:50 PM

Larry Bone

Book Talk: Myself Lost

Larry Bone was born in Los Angeles, CA, 73 years ago. He grew up in Redondo Beach, which looks out over the Santa Monica Bay. He majored in English and minored in journalism at Santa Monica College and finished his degree at UCLA in 1976. His first novel, Myself Lost, was completed preceding his retirement from an administrative operations post in May of this year.

Shaun Fynn

Book Talk: Departures – A Journey with India description

Shaun Fynn is a visual storyteller, artist, designer, and author based in New York. He is the principal of the design, brand and communication agency StudioFYNN and the photographer and author of Departures: A Journey with India (Oro Editions/Goff books 2022) and Chandigarh Revealed/Le Corbusier’s City Today (Princeton Architectural Press / Mapin 2017). A graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, he has lived and worked internationally including a three-year period in Chandigarh, India.

His works have been featured and exhibited in multiple forums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York City, the archive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and The Victoria & Albert Museum London, The United Nations International Labour Organization, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Fast Company and The Guardian. Fynn has been a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and is currently an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In conversation with

Rakesh Kaul IAAC Vice Chairman

Rakesh K. Kaul is the author of the best-selling, historical drama The Last Queen of Kashmir (Harper-Collins 2016). His second novel, Dawn the Warrior Princess of Kashmir was published by Penguin India to critical acclaim in 2019. He was instrumental in the recovery of the Tengapura Durga, the oldest continuously worshipped Durga in the sub-continent, from Germany to India. He is a Granthika speaker specializing in Niti storytelling and a writer for major newspapers on the evolutionary forces within history, culture and society which lead to individual empowerment.

He was a founding contributor to the first Chair of India Studies at University of California Berkeley, to the Center for the Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania and to the Mattoo Center for India Studies at SUNY. He served as Co-Chairman The Arts of Kashmir Exhibition, Asia Society, New York October 2008. He has received numerous honors for his Community contributions and is active in helping victims of Genocide in India in 1990. He sits on the Board of Jagati school in Jammu, India which educates children of these refugees. He is married to Dr. Sushma Kaul, a pediatric endocrinologist who sits on the Board of the non-profit We Win and they have two sons.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
12.00 – 12.50 PM

Karthik Ramanna

Book Talk: The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World

Karthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, where he's served as director of one of the world's most diverse leadership programs. Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School, he is an expert on business-government affairs and has won numerous awards, including the international Case Centre's Outstanding Case Writer prize, dubbed by the Financial Times as "the business school Oscars."

Ramesh Srinivasan

Book Talk: The Journey of Leadership

Ramesh Srinivasan is a Senior Partner in the New York Office of McKinsey and Company. Ramesh spent the first 11 years of this McKinsey career in India, and the last 19 years in New York. Ramesh is a leader in McKinsey’s Healthcare and Social Sector practices. Ramesh is the Global Dean of the Bower Forum, McKinsey’s CEO learning program. Along with a few others, Ramesh has recently authored “The Journey of Leadership”.

Ramesh has a Business Technology degree in Computer Science from IIT Madras. He has done his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, where he was awarded a gold medal for academic excellence. Ramesh is on five education non-profit Boards.

Mathew Veedon

In conversation with

Mathew Veedon

Mathew Veedon is a Managing Director at Accordion with over 25 years of consulting, operating, and investing experience across a broad range of industries including consumer goods, healthcare, and technology. He focuses on high intervention situations, turnarounds and major transformations for portfolio companies of leading private equity firms. He has worked with senior executives on cost reduction, business reorganization, merger integration and synergy estimation.

Before joining Accordion, Mathew was the CFO for Corsicana Mattress Company, where he was involved in acquiring a competitor, restructuring the balance sheet and effecting a change of control. At Keyrock Partners, he focused on early-stage growth companies to unlock value with IoT, Cloud and Blockchain technologies. Mathew was also a Senior Advisor to Quest Turnaround advisors and a partner at Redding Consultants. Prior to joining Redding, Mathew was a Principal of NGV Partners Fund LLC, a seed stage technology fund and portfolio manager of Sachem Ventures. Mathew began his career with positions at Arthur Andersen and Accenture.

Mathew graduated from Sydenham College in Mumbai, India. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds an M.B.A. in Finance with a Strategy concentration from Yale University. He lives in New York and is an avid runner, who has completed five marathons.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
01:00 – 01:50 PM

Kalpana Raina

Book Talk: For Now, It Is Night

Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive with extensive financial, management and advisory experience internationally. Raina is currently the Vice Chair at Words Without Borders, a premier online journal of translations. Her collaborative translation project of stories from the Kashmiri language, For Now, It Is Night, is her first work of translation.

In conversation with

Padma Shri Subhash Kak

Subhash Kak is an author and scientist who lives in Oklahoma and Miami. His most recent books are Whispers from the Past: Art and Wisdom of Kashmir and The Age of Artificial Intelligence. His work has been showcased in the popular media including Discovery and History channels, PBS, Public TV in Europe, and in several documentaries on science and art.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
02:00 – 02:50 PM

Anshul Chaturvedi

Book Talk: The Vivekananda Handbook

Anshul Chaturvedi is a journalist who has worked across multiple locations – Jammu, Chandigarh, Lucknow, and Delhi – for over 25 years now, observing a wide spectrum from politics to cinema. He came across the works of Swami Vivekananda at 16 and has been unable to disengage from them since. He has been writing about Vivekananda for platforms including the Speaking Tree and his blog for 15-odd years. Anshul summarises Vivekananda as his Steven Covey, Dale Carnegie and life coach, all rolled in one. He is of the view that Vivekananda is more venerated than understood, and we do him a disservice by placing him on a pedestal of grand thought when he should be someone who walks along us in our everyday lives.

When not earning his daily bread, Anshul often engrossed in reading about WW2 and managerial philosophy and binge-watching police procedurals. Currently based in Delhi/Noida, he works as an Executive Editor with The Times Of India.

In conversation with

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda is Minister of the Vedanta Society of New York. He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1994 and received final monastic vows in 2004. He previously served as Assistant Minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California and was a Nagral Fellow at Harvard Divinity School in 2019-20. He is a world-renowned speaker on Vedanta, and has spoken at such prestigious forums as TEDx, SAND, Google Talk, the World Parliament of Religions in Toronto, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Swami Sarvapriyananda has engaged in dialogues with many eminent thinkers such as Rupert Spira, David Chalmers, Rick Archer and Deepak Chopra.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
12.00 – 12.50 PM

Veera Hiranandani

Book Talk: Amil and The After

Veera Hiranandani is the award-winning author of several books for young people. Her most recent middle-grade novel, Amil and The After, is a follow-up to her previous Newbery Honor-winning,The Night Diary. The Night Diary also received the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature, and several other honors and state reading list awards. Her middle-grade historical novel, How to Find What You're Not Looking For, received the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award, the 2022 Jane Addams Book Award, and the New-York Historical Society Children's Book Prize among other accolades. Her first novel for young readers,The Whole Story of Half a Girl, was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and was a South Asia Book Award Highly Commended selection. She's also the author of the chapter book series, Phoebe G. Green. She earned her MFA in fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. A former book editor at Simon & Schuster, she's now a faculty member with the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

In conversation with

Raakhee Mirchandani

Raakhee Mirchandani is a journalist, children’s book author, activist and mom — not necessarily in that order.

Previously a feature writer and columnist for the New York Post, a managing editor at the New York Daily News and associate editor at the Boston Herald, Raakhee’s work has also appeared in Elle, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, Redbook and HuffPo, and she was the editor-in-chief of Moneyish, published by Dow Jones.

The New Jersey-born daughter of immigrants, Raakhee is a proud supporter of many nonprofits, serving on the boards of the Tomorrows Children's Fund, the Hoboken Public Library, Stevens Cooperative School and the Children’s Book Council.

In 2020, Raakhee launched her podcast, “Brown Mom,” where she chats with friends and notables about being brown in America.

When she isn't writing or working on her podcast, Raakhee is either organizing her bookshelves, running races to raise money for the fight against pediatric cancer — or styling her very curly hair with new oils and potions. She lives in Hoboken, N.J., with her husband and daughter, the inspirations for Hair Twins and Super Satya Saves the Day. Raakhee invites you to follow her on Twitter @Raakstar and on Instagram @RaakstarWrites.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
01:00 – 01:50 PM

Sidhartha Mallya

Book Talk: Sad Glad

Sidhartha Mallya is an American Born, British raised, actor of Indian descent. He trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, graduating with a Master of Arts in acting. His film credits include the Netflix Original film, ‘Brahman Naman’ which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and the upcoming action film ‘Mafia Wars’ alongside Tom Welling. Sidhartha was also a part of the abc Television Group’s 2013 LA Showcase, and has appeared in various other productions.

Aside from acting, Sidhartha’s main focus has been on the promotion of mental health amongst the youth. In 2021, he released his first book If I’m Honest: A memoir of my mental health journey (Penguin Random House) to widespread acclaim. His second book titled Sad-Glad, a picture book written to help children deal with their emotions, was published in 2024 by the Children’s Division of Penguin Random House. Sad-Gladhas gone on to be a national bestseller, gaining the #1 spot in English Language and Children’s Books on the Nielsen Bookscan India Chart.

In conversation with

Ravina Aggarwal

Ravina Aggarwal is an anthropologist who has written extensively about the Himalayas. Her publications include Searching for the Songbird, a mystery novel that won the 2023 Green Literature Festival Award for children's environmental fiction, Beyond Lines of Control: Performing the Border in Ladakh, India, two edited volumes, Into the High Ranges: The Penguin Book of Mountain Writing and Forsaking Paradise: Short Stories from Ladakh, and several articles. She was a tenured professor at Smith College, Massachusetts, and has worked for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi. Her most recent position was the director of Columbia University’s Global Center in India.

Sunday, 10 November 2024
02:00 – 02:50 PM

Anu Sehgal

Book Talk: I am a Lotus

Anu Sehgal is children’s author and the Founder of The Culture Tree, a cultural literacy and language education company that focuses on South Asia. She lives in New York with her family, and has two sons. Anu believes awareness of one’s heritage, culture and language is key for children to become self-aware and confident individuals. She holds an MBA from Yale University and has worked in the corporate sector for almost 15 years. She has received several awards and recognitions for her work in cultural literacy. Anu has written 5 books that represent stories and languages of India. Anu’s books have been selected at the World Literature Festival at NYPL, Brooklyn Museum’s annual Children’s Literature Festival and Asia Society’s AAPI Literature Festival. Additionally she and her organization have received several awards and recognitions from the NY State Assembly, Mayor’s office, The Society of Foreign Consuls.

Naumi Kak

Book Talk: Knotty Knots

Naumi Kak, the author of Knotty Knots, has dedicated much of her professional life to psychology, working with both adults and children. Now retired, she lives with her husband in Stillwater, though she often visits her grandchildren in Miami, where she is known as "Nani." Inspired by her grandkids' daily battles with brushing their hair, Naumi wrote Knotty Knots as her first children's book. In addition to her writing, she enjoys hiking, making handcrafted soaps and candles, and working on needlepoint projects.

In conversation with

Ravina Aggarwal

Ravina Aggarwal is an anthropologist who has written extensively about the Himalayas. Her publications include Searching for the Songbird, a mystery novel that won the 2023 Green Literature Festival Award for children's environmental fiction, Beyond Lines of Control: Performing the Border in Ladakh, India, two edited volumes, Into the High Ranges: The Penguin Book of Mountain Writing and Forsaking Paradise: Short Stories from Ladakh, and several articles. She was a tenured professor at Smith College, Massachusetts, and has worked for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi. Her most recent position was the director of Columbia University’s Global Center in India.

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What if I do not have a digital copy of my book?

Please contact us via email at admin@iaac.us so that we can further assist you. Please make sure to put “Digital Copy of Book Unavailable” in your subject title.

What is the deadline?

The application Deadline is June 20, 2024

What are dates of publication being considered?

Books published in 2023, 2024 and scheduled for release in early 2025 will be considered.

Will you accept self-published books?

Self-published books will not be considered.

I submitted my book last year, can I submit the same book this year?

If your book was not part of our literary festival last year and falls within the publishing dates for this year, we welcome your submission.

When will I know if I am selected?

Invitations will go out in August.

Do you send out rejection letters?

We do our best to keep everyone informed about the status of their submission. Given the volume of submissions that we receive, we may inadvertently miss a few. Do reach out via email at admin@iaac.us if you don’t hear from us. Please make sure to enter Literary Festival Submission Status Enquiry in the Subject line.

Do you pay the authors?

The authors will receive an honorarium.

Who chooses the moderators?

The moderators are chosen by the IAAC literary team.
We welcome suggestions from the selected authors and/or their publishers but may not always be able to accommodate them.

Do you pay the moderators?

The moderators will receive an honorarium.

Will every author have an independent session?

Some sessions will be independent and others will be panel discussions, all sessions will have a moderator. Authors will be informed of the format of their session in advance.

Will IAAC purchase books?

IAAC will not purchase books.

Will I be able to sell my books at the venue if I am selected?

Book sales will be permitted for one hour after the author’s session. IAAC will not participate in the sale of books. Every author/publisher must make arrangements to have the books delivered to the venue and removed after their time slot has ended. IAAC will be happy to share links to the sites where the book is available for purchase.

If you have further questions, please reach out to us at admin@IAAC.us

Committee and Curators

IAAC - Preethi Urs

Preethi Urs

Festival Director

Preethi Urs is originally from Bengaluru and is now a proud New Yorker. She credits these two cities for birthing and nurturing her love for literature and the arts. She started her career in public relations where she helped international companies connect with their American counterparts. After completing an MS in education from Bank Street College of Education, she taught kindergarten and first grade. She and her husband live in Manhattan, where their two children were born and raised.

Jennifer Acker

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common, and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in Amazon Original Stories, Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and organizes LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband. jenniferacker.com

Dr. Ravi Shankar

Pushcart prize winning poet, translator and professor Ravi Shankar has published, edited or has forthcoming over fifteen books, including the Muse India award-winning translations of 9th century Tamil poet/saint, Andal, 'The Autobiography of a Goddess' (Zubaan/University of Chicago), 'The Golden Shovel: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks" (University of Arkansas) and 'The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997-2017' (Recent Works Press). Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond" and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat. He has taught and performed around the world and currently holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney. His collaborative chapbook, 'A Field Guide to Southern China' written with T.S. Eliot Prize winner George Szirtes was just published in the UK August 2019 by Eyewear Publishing.

Professor Narayan Hegde

Professor Narayan Hegde is Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY College at Old Westbury, where he taught English, Indian, and World Literatures. As a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he has translated several works of Kannada literature, including Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories by U. R. Ananthamurthy, Annayya's Anthropology by A. K. Ramanujan, and a 19th-century drama, The Marriage Farce of Iggappa Hegade. He is a recipient of the Katha Translation Award. Translation of Avasthe, a Kannada novel by the eminent Indian author, U.R.Ananthamurthy, was recently published by HarperCollins India. He is currently part of a team translating the 15th century Kannada epic Kumaravyasa Bharatha for publication by Harvard University Press in its Murty Classical Library of India series.

IAAC - Prof. S. N. Sridhar

Professor S.N. Sridhar

Professor S.N. Sridhar is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, and Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies at Stony Brook University, where he has been teaching since 1980.He graduated from Central College, Bangalore University, with a B.A. (Honors) and M.A. in English literature and linguistics with a first class and the first rank for the University. He did a Ph.D. in Linguistics with distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Professor S.N. Sridhar is an internationally recognized expert on multilingualism, Indian linguistics, World Englishes, and Kannada. His research concerns many areas, including: bilingualism (language contact and convergence); sociolinguistics of code-switching and code-mixing, language modernization, language spread; second language acquisition in non-native settings; Indian English and other World Englishes; reference grammar of Kannada (syntax, morphology, social dimensions); psycholinguistics (sentence production, code-mixing), applied linguistics (scope and relation to linguistic theory), historical linguistics (acquisition of subjecthood, contact-induced language change), and history of linguistics (Indian grammatical tradition). Currently, he is working on a monograph on multilingualism in India and another on the classic Kannada poet Kumara Vyasa and another on multilingualism in India. He heads an international consortium of scholars translating the Kannada classic Mahabharata by Kumaravyasa into English, to be published in three volumes in the Murthy Classical Library by Harvard University.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is author of three books: Kannada: Descriptive Grammar (Routledge, 1990 and Manohar 2001), Cognition and Sentence Production: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Springer Verlag, 1986), and India Kannada (Contemporary Kannada, Kannada University, 1995 and Abhinava, 2009); co-editor of two reference volumes ( Ananya: A Portrait of India (AIA, 1997), and Language in South Asia (Cambridge, 2008) and seven special issues of journals, and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.

Professor S.N. Sridhar’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. He was designated Senior/Superior Scholar in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a plenary or keynote speaker at many international conferences, including the Linguistic Society of India in 2013, and member of editorial board of journals, evaluator of publication projects and academic programs. He was conferred the select faculty rank of Distinguished Service Professor by the State University of New York in 2011. He is Vice-President and President Elect of the International Association of World Englishes.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is a co-founder of South Asian Languages Analysis (SALA) and organized its international conferences at Stony Brook in 1983 and 2004. He has also organized or co-organized conferences on Dravidian Linguistics, India Studies, the Teaching of Linguistics, and Teaching of Asian Languages.

Professor S.N. Sridhar is the founding Director of the Center for India Studies at Stony Brook, which has evolved over two decades into a national model of Indian American community-public university partnership in developing India Studies. He also served as the Founding Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies from 2002-2008.Professor S.N. Sridhar is also active in the community. He founded the India Society of Stony Brook in 1989 and served as its first President until 1994. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Indians in America and of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Board of Governors of the Indo-American Arts Council, New York.He lives in Stony Brook with his wife and collaborator, Professor Kamal (Meena) Sridhar.

Makarand Paranjape

Prof. Makarand Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is currently Director of Education, Access Health Care Physicians, Spring Hill, Florida. Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly 25 years, he also served as Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla) and held several fellowships/visiting professorships including the inaugural India Chair at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, the Shivadasani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, the CAPES Visiting Professorship at the University of São Paulo and Federal University of Minas Gerais, and the inaugural Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in World Literature at the University of Tuebingen. The author/editor of over 50 books, he has published over 200 academic papers/book chapters, and over a thousand newspaper/periodical essays and op-eds. His ongoing columns include “Soft Power” (Open magazine), “Right Turn” (Gulf News), “Truth or Dare” (ToI Plus), and “US Sutra” (FirstPost). His latest books include Mahatma Gandhi: Mrityu aur Punarutthan (Penguin Swadesh), Identity’s Last Secret (BluOne Ink), and Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity (HarperCollins).

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October 23, 2024

The Indo-American Arts Council Presents its 2024

Literary Festival: A Celebration of Indian and Diasporic

Voices in New York City

Dates: November 9-10, 2024
Venue: International House, 500 Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10027

Admission: Free and open to the public

New York, NY — The Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) is thrilled to announce its 2024 literary festival, bringing together acclaimed authors, poets, and literary grand masters for a weekend of engaging book talks, panel discussions, and performances. Held at International House on November 9-10, 2024, the festival is free and open to all, offering audiences a unique opportunity to explore global Indian literature and culture.

This year’s festival promises to resonate strongly with both American and Indian-American audiences, featuring prominent voices like Amitava Kumar, whose works on identity and migration bridge both worlds, and Sonora Jha, whose critical lens on social justice speaks to current global and domestic conversations. Chef Asma Khan, celebrated for her globally renowned restaurant Darjeeling Express, comes into town from London. She joins Brook Eddy, founder of Bhakti Chai and they bring an exciting culinary edge to the festival, appealing to food lovers and entrepreneurs alike. Also featured is Harini Nagendra, a renowned ecologist and author, whose works captivate readers interested in literature and environmentalism, and Veera Hiranandani, author of acclaimed young adult fiction, appealing to both younger audiences and families. These authors, among others, present a broad range of topics, from leadership and activism to personal journeys and the art of storytelling.

We are also thrilled to announce that McKinsey & Company has come onboard as a Knowledge Partner, adding a new dimension to this year’s festival with their world-class insights and expertise. Equally exciting, the Prabha Khaitan Foundation (PKF) returns for a second consecutive year as a key partner, reinforcing the festival’s growing prominence as a premier celebration of Indian and global literature in New York City. Their support promises to elevate the IAAC Literary Festival to new heights!

Festival Highlights:

Saturday, November 9

  • Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, author of Swallowing the Sun, in conversation with Roopa Unnikrishnan
  • Sonora Jha, author of The Laughter, in conversation with Sayu Bhojwani
  • Raghav Rao (author of Missy) and Nishanth Injam (author of The Best Possible Experience) in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape
  • Beena Kamlani discusses The English Problem
  • Amitava Kumar, author of My Beloved Life, in conversation with Beena Kamlani
  • Brook Eddy (author of STEEPED: Adventures of a Tea Entrepreneur) and Chef Asma Khan (author of Monsoon) in conversation
  • Shehla Rashid presents her book Role Models
  • Prof. S. N. Sridhar (Editor) and Prof. Narayan Hegde (Translator) discuss The Kannada Mahabharata with Anand Rao
  • Alka Joshi, author of The Jaipur Trilogy, in conversation with Shanelle Kaul
  • Tripurdaman Singh discusses Sixteen Stormy Days: Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution, in conversation with Venkat Dhulipala
  • Industry panel featuring Priya Doraswamy and Lucia Macro in conversation with Prof. Makarand Paranjape
  • Bhuwan Ribhu, author of When Children Have Children: Tipping Point to End Child Marriage, in conversation with Dinesh Khosla
  • Harini Nagendra, author of A Nest of Vipers, in conversation with Shiv Rao
  • Dr. Shuvendu Sen (author of The Fight Against Alzheimer’s) and Dr. Sandeep Jauhar (author of My Father’s Brain) in conversation with Dr. Sanat Chattopadhyay
  • Divya Prakash Dubey, author of Yaar Papa, in conversation with Anoop Bhargava

A highlight of the festival’s closing session on Saturday, November 9, will be a poetry panel featuring internationally acclaimed poets Guillermo Rodríguez Martín, Anand Thakore, Krishna Ramanujan, Kashiana Singh, and Diane Mehta moderated by Curator and poet Ravi Shankar. This session will explore powerful themes of identity, language, and culture, offering audiences an intimate look at these poets’ creative journeys.

To end the evening on an exciting note, the festival will host a poetry slam where emerging poets and spoken word artists will compete to win a $100 prize and a signed first edition of one of the featured authors’ works. The poetry slam promises to be a vibrant showcase of contemporary voices, blending the artistry of performance with powerful storytelling.

Sunday, November 10

  • Kalpana Raina, translator of For Now, It Is Night: Stories, in conversation with Padma Bhushan Subhash Kak
  • Larry Bone (author of Myself Lost) and Shaun Fynn (author of Departures: A Journey with India) in conversation with Rakesh Kaul
  • Karthik Ramanna (author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World) and Ramesh Srinivasan (author of The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out) in conversation with Deepak Raj
  • Anshul Chaturvedi, author of The Vivekananda Handbook, in conversation with Swami Sarvapriyananda
  • Veera Hiranandani, author of Amil and The After, in conversation with Raakhee Mirchandani
  • Siddhartha Mallya discusses his book Sad Glad, in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal
  • Anu Sehgal (author of I am a Lotus) and Naumi Kak (author of Knotty Knots) in conversation with Ravina Aggarwal

Rakesh Kaul, IAAC Vice Chairman, notes, “Our goal is to present a diverse array of voices that reflect the rich heritage of the Indian diaspora, while also connecting with universal themes that resonate with readers around the world. And best of all, it’s free!”

“With a diverse range of topics and literary works, the IAAC Literary Festival provides a rare opportunity for readers to engage with authors, learn about their creative processes, and explore the many ways Indian culture and storytelling intersect with global conversations.” added Preethi Urs, Literary Festival Director.

For more details and a full schedule of events, visit the IAAC website at www.iaac.us.

About IAAC
The Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) is a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting and showcasing the arts and artists of Indian heritage. IAAC programs include visual arts, film, dance, and literature, offering a platform for creative voices from the global Indian community.

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