Sep 05 2025 to Sep 05 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Author and traveller Sanjoy Hazarika takes us along the Brahmaputra, a river that winds through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh before reaching the Bay of Bengal. Ahead of the release of his travelogue with Speaking Tiger in October 2025, he reflects on decades of journeys on its water,  from storms and struggles to resilience and renewal.

Through stories of people and places shaped by the river, he offers a rare perspective on one of the world’s most remarkable waterways.

A Q&A with the audience will follow his presentation.

Speaker

Sanjoy Hazarika
Author, Journalist & Human Rights Advocate
Sanjoy Hazarika is an author, journalist, filmmaker, policy analyst and human rights advocate. A former New York Times correspondent, he has reported widely across South Asia for over four decades and is currently a columnist for The Telegraph and The Tribune.

He is the author of five books, including the acclaimed Strangers of the Mist and Strangers No More, and has co-edited several volumes. His forthcoming works include a travelogue on the Brahmaputra (Speaking Tiger, 2025) and a book on Mizoram (2026).

Hazarika has scripted and produced more than a dozen documentaries on rivers, wildlife, conflict and governance, and in 2000 founded the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, whose boat clinics bring health care to nearly three lakh people annually on the Brahmaputra.

A recipient of the Rotary Peace Award for Writing (2023), he has held fellowships at Harvard, Tufts, the Rockefeller Centre, and other institutions, and served as International Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (2016–22).