Speaking of the City with Anita Nair

Bangalore’s World-Famous Semi-Deluxe Writing Program and Shoonya Invite you for a talk by Anita Nair, leading Bangalore writer and author of the recent Inspector Gowda detective novel series. Anita will be in conversation with the writer Radhika Chadha.

Bangalore’s World-Famous Semi-Deluxe Writing Program sponsors a monthly curated talk called Speaking of the City, at Shoonya – Centre for Art and Somatic Practices (Lalbagh Road). Writers, artists, journalists, scholars, architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, historians, geographers, activists or anyone who has worked on Bangalore will be invited to speak of this city that we all inhabit.

The first talk in our lecture series, in July 2017, was with RamachandraGuha, and was followed by a session with Vivek Shanbhag, both of which pulled in big crowds. Sugata Srinivasaraju thrilled us in October with his thoughts on growing up in the city and how it has affected his views on writing – and his work as an editor, translator, and top journalist. The fourth talk featured internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed Lavanya Sankaran, who shared her thoughts with us in an exclusive event. In the fifth, popular History author Maya Jayapal evoked the nostalgic confluences that make Bangalore the city it is.

Anita Nair is the author of the bestselling novels The Better Man, Ladies Coupe, Mistress, Lesson in Forgetting, Idris, Cut Like Wound and Chain of Custody. She has also published volumes of poetry and essays, and several books for children. Among other awards, she was given Central Sahitya Akademi Award for contribution to children’s literature in English. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages around the world. She is the founder of the creative-writing and mentorship programme Anita’s Attic.

Check out her page here: Anita Nair Official

Radhika Chadha is a consultant in innovation and strategy. She is the author of several children’s books including I’m So Sleepy, Snoring Shanmugam, Basava and the Dots of Fire, Colour-Colour Kamini, Mallipoo, Where are You? and Yes, Hutoxi!