Discussion & Readings as part of 'Ruth Jhabvala: Her Three Continents 50 Years with Merchant Ivory' at Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 15th December 2014
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Discussion and Readings as part of 'Ruth Jhabvala: Her Three Continents 50 Years with Merchant Ivory'
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Conference Room - I, 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 : Conference Room - I, 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)'
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Event Description : Discussion and Readings
“I was writing furiously all through my childhood… I was just born that way: destined. One does not choose to become a writer. I started school at six and learnt the alphabet and then we were told to write our first composition. The subject : a hare-- in German der Hase. I wrote the title Der Hase. At once I was flooded with my destiny: only I didn’t know that’s what it was. I only remember my entire absorption, delight, in writing about—giving my impression of—Der Hase. To think such happiness could be!”
Her books have had high critical acclaim. C. P. Snow, Rumer Godden and V. S. Pritchett variously describing her work as "the highest art," "a balance between subtlety, humour and beauty" and as being “Chekhovian in its detached sense of comic self-delusion.”
The session will be moderated by Meera Dewan. There will be a short introduction to her life by daughter Renana Jhabvala and a short film interview with Ruth herself.
The mood will be set by Readings from Ruth’s work by Averee Choudhary and Minotti Chtterjee.
Author Aruna Chakravarty will introduce the fiction writings of Ms Jhabvala.
And celebrated Hindi Writer Ramesh Chandra Shah will give his interpretation of her last two books—My Nine Lives and Love Song for India.
The discussion include the trajectory of themes in her writings, from portraits of social mores of early independent India to themes of global identity and migration.
Background : 'Ruth Jhabvala: Her Three Continents 50 Years with Merchant Ivory'
Films - Discussion - Exhibition.
This Retrospective celebrates Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013), author and screenplay writer. She remains the only writer in the world to win both a Booker Award for her novel Heat and Dust, as well as two Academy Awards for her adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novels, A Room with a View and Howards End.
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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 : Conference Room - I, 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
“I was writing furiously all through my childhood… I was just born that way: destined. One does not choose to become a writer. I started school at six and learnt the alphabet and then we were told to write our first composition. The subject : a hare-- in German der Hase. I wrote the title Der Hase. At once I was flooded with my destiny: only I didn’t know that’s what it was. I only remember my entire absorption, delight, in writing about—giving my impression of—Der Hase. To think such happiness could be!”
Her books have had high critical acclaim. C. P. Snow, Rumer Godden and V. S. Pritchett variously describing her work as "the highest art," "a balance between subtlety, humour and beauty" and as being “Chekhovian in its detached sense of comic self-delusion.”
The session will be moderated by Meera Dewan. There will be a short introduction to her life by daughter Renana Jhabvala and a short film interview with Ruth herself.
The mood will be set by Readings from Ruth’s work by Averee Choudhary and Minotti Chtterjee.
Author Aruna Chakravarty will introduce the fiction writings of Ms Jhabvala.
The discussion include the trajectory of themes in her writings, from portraits of social mores of early independent India to themes of global identity and migration.
Background : 'Ruth Jhabvala: Her Three Continents 50 Years with Merchant Ivory'
Films - Discussion - Exhibition.
This Retrospective celebrates Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013), author and screenplay writer. She remains the only writer in the world to win both a Booker Award for her novel Heat and Dust, as well as two Academy Awards for her adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novels, A Room with a View and Howards End.
Discussion & Readings as part of 'Ruth Jhabvala: Her Three Continents 50 Years with Merchant Ivory' at Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 15th December 2014
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