TALK “Revisiting Delhi’s Darkest Hour: The Anti-Sikh riots of 1984” by Vikram Kapur > 6:30pm on 12th January 2018
Venue : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place
Time : 6:30 pm
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TALK “Revisiting Delhi’s Darkest Hour: The Anti-Sikh riots of 1984” by Vikram Kapur
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The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
Venue Info : Events | About | Parking and Location | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : TALK “Revisiting Delhi’s Darkest Hour: The Anti-Sikh riots of 1984” by Vikram Kapur
Panel Discussion with Hartosh Singh Bal, Humra Quraishi & Arpana Caur.
Reading & questions.
The Nobel Prize-winning American writer William Faulkner once said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 may have lasted barely three days. Their after-burn, however, continues to linger more than thirty years later. Today the story of 1984 is not the story of Indira Gandhi’s assassination or the Khalistan cause that fizzled out in the mid-nineties. Today 1984 lives through its victims; through the silent anger of an aggrieved people who lost their homes and loved ones, and continue to be defeated by an intransigent justice system in their bid to put the guilty of the time behind bars. Today 1984 is akin to a festering wound that continues to run, a rambling narrative that drones on without any sign of a fitting closure. It may be invisible, but it is not forgotten. It cannot be. Far too many people sleep with anger as a result of it.
In The Assassinations, Vikram Kapur tells the story of how the lives of two Delhi families—one Hindu and the other Sikh—are distorted by the events of 1984. Through the ordinary eyes of his characters we witness the turbulence of the times and see how continuing to live can mean coming to terms with many kinds of deaths. Even several years later, 1984 is not the past for its victims. It continues to shape their present.
Vikram Kapur’s new novel is The Assassinations: A Novel of 1984. He has published two other novels, Time Is a Fire and The Wages of Life, as well as an edited anthology of short fiction and nonfiction on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots called 1984 In Memory and Imagination. His short fiction and nonfiction have been published widely in India and abroad. His short stories have been shortlisted for major international prizes including, among others, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His website is www.vikramkapur.com
Hartosh Singh Bal is currently working on a book on the 1984 Sikh massacres. He is the political editor of The Caravan magazine. He has co-written a novel A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel which won the 2007 Association of American Publishers award for the best scholarly book in mathematics. He has also written a sociological, political and historical travelogue about the Narmada river Waters Close Over Us.
Humra Quraishi is a Delhi -based writer, columnist and journalist . Her books include a book on the Kashmir Valley-Kashmir: The Untold Story; a volume of her collective writings-Views: Yours and Mine ; a short-story collection-More Bad Time Tales, a volume, Divine Legacy-Dagars & Dhrupad. With the late Khushwant Singh, she has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous : Profiles, Absolute Khushwant, and a series of other writings. Her take on what it is like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times is part of the anthology Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And one of her essays, The State Can’t Snatch Away our Children is part of the anthology Of Mothers And Others. Her short stories have been published in several magazines and journals.
Arpana Caur is a self-taught artist. Since the beginning of her career Arpana's main concern has been the girl child, condition of women and growing violence in India.
She has had 18 solo shows of her paintings, and participated in nine national and international exhibitions and art festivals from Baghdad to Brasilia and Japan to Rio de Janeiro
Her works are in many private and public collections in India and abroad including the National Gallery of Modem Art, New Delhi, the V&A in London as well as in museums in Dusseldorf, Singapore and Stockholm.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
Venue Info : Events | About | Parking and Location | Map
Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)
Event Description : TALK “Revisiting Delhi’s Darkest Hour: The Anti-Sikh riots of 1984” by Vikram Kapur
Panel Discussion with Hartosh Singh Bal, Humra Quraishi & Arpana Caur.
Reading & questions.
The Nobel Prize-winning American writer William Faulkner once said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ The anti-Sikh riots of 1984 may have lasted barely three days. Their after-burn, however, continues to linger more than thirty years later. Today the story of 1984 is not the story of Indira Gandhi’s assassination or the Khalistan cause that fizzled out in the mid-nineties. Today 1984 lives through its victims; through the silent anger of an aggrieved people who lost their homes and loved ones, and continue to be defeated by an intransigent justice system in their bid to put the guilty of the time behind bars. Today 1984 is akin to a festering wound that continues to run, a rambling narrative that drones on without any sign of a fitting closure. It may be invisible, but it is not forgotten. It cannot be. Far too many people sleep with anger as a result of it.
In The Assassinations, Vikram Kapur tells the story of how the lives of two Delhi families—one Hindu and the other Sikh—are distorted by the events of 1984. Through the ordinary eyes of his characters we witness the turbulence of the times and see how continuing to live can mean coming to terms with many kinds of deaths. Even several years later, 1984 is not the past for its victims. It continues to shape their present.
Vikram Kapur’s new novel is The Assassinations: A Novel of 1984. He has published two other novels, Time Is a Fire and The Wages of Life, as well as an edited anthology of short fiction and nonfiction on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots called 1984 In Memory and Imagination. His short fiction and nonfiction have been published widely in India and abroad. His short stories have been shortlisted for major international prizes including, among others, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His website is www.vikramkapur.com
Hartosh Singh Bal is currently working on a book on the 1984 Sikh massacres. He is the political editor of The Caravan magazine. He has co-written a novel A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel which won the 2007 Association of American Publishers award for the best scholarly book in mathematics. He has also written a sociological, political and historical travelogue about the Narmada river Waters Close Over Us.
Humra Quraishi is a Delhi -based writer, columnist and journalist . Her books include a book on the Kashmir Valley-Kashmir: The Untold Story; a volume of her collective writings-Views: Yours and Mine ; a short-story collection-More Bad Time Tales, a volume, Divine Legacy-Dagars & Dhrupad. With the late Khushwant Singh, she has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous : Profiles, Absolute Khushwant, and a series of other writings. Her take on what it is like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times is part of the anthology Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And one of her essays, The State Can’t Snatch Away our Children is part of the anthology Of Mothers And Others. Her short stories have been published in several magazines and journals.
Arpana Caur is a self-taught artist. Since the beginning of her career Arpana's main concern has been the girl child, condition of women and growing violence in India.
She has had 18 solo shows of her paintings, and participated in nine national and international exhibitions and art festivals from Baghdad to Brasilia and Japan to Rio de Janeiro
Her works are in many private and public collections in India and abroad including the National Gallery of Modem Art, New Delhi, the V&A in London as well as in museums in Dusseldorf, Singapore and Stockholm.
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