BOOK READING "Cityscapes: In the Light of Texts" by Ulla Lenze & Amrita Shah at Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7pm on 11th April 2016

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 11/04/2016 19:00 11/04/2016 21:00 Asia/Kolkata BOOK READING "Cityscapes: In the Light of Texts" by Ulla Lenze & Amrita Shah Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/04/book-reading-cityscapes-in-light-of.html Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY  

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Venue : Library, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : "Cityscapes: In the Light of Texts" Pre-Event of DWIH (German House for Research and Innovation – New Delhi) Annual Event 2016

The DWIH Annual Event taking place in September/October 2016 will deal with issues of growing urbanisation. Attuning for this topic Ulla Lenze and Amrita Shah will read from their books. 

Ulla Lenzes : Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City) is both a document and a creative transformation of her experience of the foreign. It is all the more fascinating for having emerged from stays in two different cities, Mumbai and Istanbul, that are far remote from each other geographically and culturally, but that struggle with similar problems under the brunt of globalization.

In her Ahmedabad: A City in the World Amrita Shah explores the paradoxes of a city that is at once nativist and cosmopolitan, caring and hedonistic, austere and exhibitionist – a model for the rapidly changing cityscapes of twenty-first century India.

Amrita Shah is a journalist, social theorist and writer. Ulla Lenze lives working as a freelance writer she also directs writing workshops.

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