Book Launch: Mother India by Ana García Arroyo at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, CP > 6:30pm on 16th December 2013

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : Book Launch: Mother India by Ana García Arroyo 

Synopsis: Madre India tells the tale of a journey which is also a moving journey within, a voyage into the creation of meaning through the silence and the sublime hopes of its characters. 

The stories told by Madre India flow like a great river whose course maps out a triangle presided over by Shiva-Shakti, uniting the male/female, the terrestrial and the divine. The journey traces out its itinerary from Varanasi and Orissa to Kashmir, from Bombay/Munbai to the Hastinapura of the Mahabharata, inducing the tireless female traveller into palpitating worlds of fantasy. And yet, the fantasy remains firmly rooted in reality. Ana García-Arroyo’s unfolding narrative resolutely avoids all stereotypes of India. Her pages eschew facile evocations of the India of abject penury or instant spirituality The traveller engages in close dialogue with the 
Indians from multiple walks of life, especially those who are women, whom she meets on her path, and enters the heart of the places she passes through. Close observation meets aware empathy, in a prose that vibrates with the author’s intuitive sense and skilful rendering of the complex plurality of an India whose essence she perceives and renders – true to itself but not chauvinist, traditional but not retrograde, modern but not triumphalist. 

Those still unfamiliar with India will be incited by these pages to discover its realities beyond the merely topical; those who know the country will be stopped in their tracks, to rethink their vision of India, be it ‘age-old’, ‘emerging’, or different again, and plunge themselves into Mother Ganga in search of the reborn perception of that millennial culture that is, with all subtlety and commitment, shadowed forth in this multifaceted and fascinating volume.. 

Biography: Ana García-Arroyo is a Spanish writer and associate professor, teaching literature at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). She has a PhD in English Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. Her usual areas of work are Literature, Women’s Studies, Gender-Sexuality and Adivasi populations. For over 20 years she has been living in different parts of India, doing research and travelling around. Her love for India, her enthusiasm and work have produced 7 books: one translation, Fábulas feministas, based on Suniti Namjoshi’s work; four essays, such as Orissa, templos y tribus; e Historia de las mujeres de la India; one novel; and the latest, a travelogue (a Purana) entitled: Madre India / Mother India 

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