Lila Foundation presents "Biography as Continuity" a talk by Ms Ritu Menon as part of LILA PRISM lecture series at Seminar Hall I & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 20th August 2014
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Lila Foundation presents "Biography as Continuity" a talk by Ms Ritu Menon
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Seminar Hall I & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Venue : Seminar Hall I & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : Lila Foundation presents "Biography as Continuity" a talk by Ms Ritu Menon, writer, publisher and founder, Women Unlimited.
As part of LILA PRISM lecture series
When an individual’s life illustrates a profound engagement with a nation’s history, it invites the attention of minds across time. When such a movement is closely watched and written about, there emerges a rare view of continuity and discontinuity as parallel streams, both in the life of the subject and that of the nation. The lecture, Biography: Discontinuous Continuous, presents Nayantara Sahgal’s biography as a text that simultaneously hints at an incipient biography of post-Independence India. Through an exploration of Sahgal’s life, her politics and her fiction and non-fiction, it concludes that the ‘discontinuous continuous’ indeed characterises the lives of individuals as much as it does that of countries and cultures.
Ritu Menon is a major Indian publisher and writer. In 1984, she founded with Urvashi Butalia the first exclusively feminist publishing house in the country, Kali for Women. Ritu Menon co-authored Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (Kali for Women, 1998) and edited No Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write about the Partition of India (Women Unlimited, 2004). As part of the Core Group of Women’s WORLD, India, Ritu has co-edited Just Between Us: Women Speak About their Writing (Women Unlimited, 2004) and Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers (Women Unlimited, 2003). Her latest book, co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran, is titled From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India (Women Unlimited, 2007). She has also authored numerous newspaper articles and op-eds. Ritu Menon focuses on the questions of feminism and violence, religion and social order. In 2011, the Government of India conferred the Padma Shri to her.
G. Arunima, Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. Her work has focused on family and kinship, aesthetics, modernity, visual culture, religion and faith practices as well as gender, sexuality and visuality in contemporary photography.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Venue : Seminar Hall I & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
As part of LILA PRISM lecture series
When an individual’s life illustrates a profound engagement with a nation’s history, it invites the attention of minds across time. When such a movement is closely watched and written about, there emerges a rare view of continuity and discontinuity as parallel streams, both in the life of the subject and that of the nation. The lecture, Biography: Discontinuous Continuous, presents Nayantara Sahgal’s biography as a text that simultaneously hints at an incipient biography of post-Independence India. Through an exploration of Sahgal’s life, her politics and her fiction and non-fiction, it concludes that the ‘discontinuous continuous’ indeed characterises the lives of individuals as much as it does that of countries and cultures.
Ritu Menon is a major Indian publisher and writer. In 1984, she founded with Urvashi Butalia the first exclusively feminist publishing house in the country, Kali for Women. Ritu Menon co-authored Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (Kali for Women, 1998) and edited No Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write about the Partition of India (Women Unlimited, 2004). As part of the Core Group of Women’s WORLD, India, Ritu has co-edited Just Between Us: Women Speak About their Writing (Women Unlimited, 2004) and Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers (Women Unlimited, 2003). Her latest book, co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran, is titled From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India (Women Unlimited, 2007). She has also authored numerous newspaper articles and op-eds. Ritu Menon focuses on the questions of feminism and violence, religion and social order. In 2011, the Government of India conferred the Padma Shri to her.
G. Arunima, Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. Her work has focused on family and kinship, aesthetics, modernity, visual culture, religion and faith practices as well as gender, sexuality and visuality in contemporary photography.
Related Links : Talks
Lila Foundation presents "Biography as Continuity" a talk by Ms Ritu Menon as part of LILA PRISM lecture series at Seminar Hall I & II, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 20th August 2014
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