Its getting hot enough to start dreaming of cooler places and better times!
Come by for an evening that will transport you to far off places and little known worlds. Attend the Mughal court at The Red Fort and hop onto the traditional palanquins to visit bustling market places and moon lit Yamuna, stop by Kerala and if you seek something farther off- get tips on how to travel through Europe on “half –a –shoestring” budget.
Programme:
Ongoing : Book Swap (6:00-8:15 P.M). (Works just the way it did last time.)
Ongoing: Exhibit of new titles by various publishers.
6:00-6:30 Madhulika Liddle reads from her travel writing and novel followed by Q&A
6:30-:7:00 Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu reads from Adrift followed by Q & A
7:00- 7:30 Mridula Koshy reads from her forthcoming novel set in Kerala and in the US Midwest.
7:30-8:15 Open Mic
Entry Fee : Free!
The authors featuring at the event are women who at some point chose to take a slightly different path, as authors and as people.
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu cut loose from the pressures to conform and decided to travel through Europe-alone and for the cost of a dozen beers. Madhulika Liddle, a one time corporate employee left it all behind to wear many hats. A blogger and an author, Madhulika Liddle writes both about her journeys to far off places and about an excursion back into history with her evocative thriller set in Mughal era Delhi. She also takes a jaunt down cinema’s memory lane with her popular blog http://dustedoff.wordpress.com. Mridula Koshy has been a cashier at a Kentucky Fried Chicken, swap-meet sales clerk, backstage dresser at fashion shows, waitress, polisher of silverware, writing adviser, a professional advocate of multiculturalism, a house painter, receptionist at a law firm, collator of tax forms, union organizer and community organizer. She has also made life-altering journeys between two continents and woven her experiences into stories.
At the “Open Mic” session, share your own stories about places far and close or read from your favorite travelogue or memoir, take us to another era- past or future. Take us on a journey.
Join us for the Book Swap where you get to take back as many books as you bring to the table. Sharing is caring!
About the authors:
Madhulika Liddle worked in hospitality, advertising and instructional design before deciding to devote all her energies to writing in English. Over the years, several of her short stories have been published in anthologies or have won awards. Her story A Morning Swim, about an eight-year old orphan who dives into the Yamuna to collect coins in order to make ends meet, won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Short Story Competition in 2003. Madhulika lives in NewDelhi and spends her spare time reading (mainly historical detective fiction), watching old cinema, and — whenever possible —traveling. Her first novel, The Englishman’s Cameo, is a detective story set in 17th century Delhi, and was published by Hachette India in October 2009.
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu, travel enthusiast and author, is the youngest of four siblings born into an aristocratic family of Punjab. Though “Have Money, Will Travel” is the (almost) respectable adage that independent writing professional, would like to adopt as her life’s philosophy, he is currently a devoted disciple of the “Little or No Money, Will Yet Travel” school of thought. She encapsulates her inexpensive travel experiences in her forthcoming travelogue, Adrift: A junket junkie in Europe.
She has traveled extensively in Asia, North America, Australia, Europe, South Africa and SE Asia; simultaneously exploring the charms within India. She recently participated in the 3rd Indo-Bhutan Friendship Rally, the only entrant from North India. A travel & food columnist with Hindustan Times, Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu has been regularly contributing articles to travel magazines, airline magazines and national dailies for over 15 years. She is also on the book review panel of The Tribune, having reviewed numerous travel, food and human-interest stories.
Mridula Susan Koshy is the author of a collection of short stories If It Is Sweet, which won her the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award. Before returning to India, she worked as a trade union and community organiser in the US. Her stories have appeared in Wasafiri, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review and Existere, as well as in anthologies in India, the UK and Italy. She is currently working on a novel. She lives in New Delhi with her partner and her three children.
Open Mic : The name says it all. This is an open forum for you to come and express yourself, tell us your story or read to us from your favorite piece of writing. It could be fiction, non-fiction, poetry or prose. Time allotted per speaker would be 5 minutes. Looking forward to hearing you!
Book Swap : Bring in books that you really liked but don’t want to read again and swap them out with ones that fellow book lovers have bring. Just make sure they are in great condition! Take as many as you bring.
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