27 April 2023, 06:30 pm
Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s ‘Blind Owl’: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

Release of the book edited by Syed Akhtar Husain and Md. Arshadul Quadri (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023)

The book will be released by Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Guest Editor, India Literature, Sahitya Akademi

Followed by a discussion with Prof. Syed Akhtar Husain, Professor, Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies; Dr. Md. Arshadul Quadri, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Persian, University of Lucknow and Vice-President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies; Prof. Udaya Kumar, School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Writing the First Person: Literature, History, and Autobiography in Modern Kerala (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2016); and Prof. Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007)

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)