Invisibility and Freedom: The Modern and Modernist Imagination in the Indian Languages

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Infosys Prize Lecture

Invisibility and Freedom: The Modern and Modernist Imagination in the Indian Languages

04:30 PM

July 01, 2022

JRD Tata Auditorium, National Institute of Advanced Studies - NIAS, Bangalore

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Invisibility and Freedom: The Modern and Modernist Imagination in the Indian Languages

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The recent Booker win for a Hindi novel in translation set off much discussion on the rich literary output in Indian languages that is largely unknown to the English-speaking readers of Indian writers. Novelist and critic Prof. Amit Chaudhuri suggests that it is this ‘invisibility’ that has given these literary traditions the freedom to be inventive in unprecedented ways. In this lecture, he will examine the trajectory of the histories of liberalism as well as modernism in India from the late 18th century onwards through two stories by the Hindi author Premchand.

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Prof. Amit Chaudhuri

Professor of Creative Writing, Ashoka University