Jun 25 2021 to Jun 25 2021 7 p.m.

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Book discussion between Author Amrita Shah and Sohini Chattopadhyay.
Amrita Shah is the author of three nonfiction books: the award-
winning Ahmedabad: A City in the World (Bloomsbury, 2015),
Vikram Sarabhai: A Life (Penguin, 2007) and Telly-Guillotined: How
Television Changed India (Sage-Yoda, 2019). She has worked for the
Time-Life News Service, been a Contributing Editor with the Indian
Express newspaper, launch Editor for Elle (India) and editor,
Debonair magazine. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a
New India Foundation Fellowship and a Homi Bhabha Fellowship.
She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes
and The Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She
is currently writing a book on an ancestral journey across the Indian
Ocean at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sohini Chattopadhyay, a PhD Candidate in the History Department, Columbia University. My dissertation is on the politics mass deaths such as famines and epidemics in colonial India, and the attendant technologies of burial and cremation practices that these events initiated. I am broadly interested in the intersections between British imperialism, social history of India, and the growth of scientific expertise. I edit a journal called Borderlines, which focuses on rethinking social science practices from South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. You can find some of my public writings here.