'The Four Conversations' a set of conversations between authors and readers at The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place > 10am to 5pm on 16th February 2014

Time : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

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

Place : The Attic, 36, Regal Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001 
Landmark : On Parliament Street close to 'The Shop' showroom & next to the 'Kwality' restaurant
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : 'The Four Conversations' will be, as the name suggests, a set of conversations between authors and readers. Four conversations, specifically, about ‘border’ spaces, and the literary production, and translation practices in those spaces. For this edition of TFC, we will focus on texts from the Punjab and Northeast India. Our objective, in this, would be as follows:

To examine and deliberate on the representation of the Partitions of the Indian subcontinent in literary and cultural texts produced in the Punjab and in the Northeast of India during specific time periods in the past, and to look at how translation practices in the contemporary, or even attempts at a re-telling of these narratives of a past have negotiated with the order of telling in the source language text and the ‘re-telling’ of the phenomena of displacement, and severance in these texts in new forms, through new media, written, or graphic.
Our focus areas for each of the four conversations would be as follows:

Punjabiyat, Partition and Translation – Narrating Riots and Crossings

Two Valleys, Partitions, Borders – Bengal, Assam and What Remains

Post-Partition, Commemoration, Trauma – The Partition Retold

The Border in Translation.

Website : tfqmagazine.org/the-four-conversations

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