Aug 31 2024 to Aug 31 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The marital and the martial are sometimes interchangeable in the long-term landscape. As infidelity and indifference run through many relationships, and the future looks polyamorous, are marriages going out of fashion?

Authors Selma Carvalho, Shinie Antony and author/relationship counsellor Vijay Nagaswami are all set to discuss the unholy state of matrimony with journalist/author Prajwal Hegde.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Speakers

Shinie Antony Writer & Editor

Shinie Antony is a writer and editor based in Bengaluru. Her novels include Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith, Can’t, The Girl Who Couldn’t Love. Her short-story collections include Barefoot and Pregnant and The Orphanage for Words. She has put together the anthologies Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman. She is the founder of Bangalore Literature Festival and festival director of Bengaluru Poetry Festival. Her story ‘A Dog’s Death’ won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.

Vijay Nagaswami Author & Relationship counsellor

Dr. Vijay Nagaswami graduated from the Madras Medical College in 1980 and underwent post-graduate training in Psychiatry from the same college. After completing his Diplomate in Psychological Medicine in 1984, he served the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (India), also known as SCARF as Deputy Director till 1991. During this period, he undertook consultancies for the World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation. Since then, he’s moved away from clinical psychiatry and concentrated his energies on Individual and Couple Psychotherapy. He has written six self-help books, of which his ‘New Indian Marriage Series’ of four books for Westland Books India – ‘The 24×7 Marriage’, ‘The Fifty-‐‑50 Marriage, ‘3’s a Crowd: Understanding and Surviving Marital Infidelity’ and ‘To D or not to D: Working towards an amicable divorce’, have all gone on to become best-sellers. From 2008 to 2013 wrote a popular column called ‘The Shrinking Universe’ which appeared in The Hindu, and now divides his professional time and energies between the practice of individual & couple psychotherapy, speaking engagements, lectures, and writing.

Selma Carvalho Author

Selma Carvalho is the author of three non-fiction books that document the Goan presence in colonial East Africa and head of the Oral Histories of British-Goans Project funded by an HLF grant in the UK. In fiction, she is the author of Sisterhood of Swans and Notes on a Marriage both published by Speaking Tiger India. Her short stories and poems appear in numerous anthologies in the UK and India. She lives in London with her partner and daughter.

Prajwal Hegde Author & Journalist

Prajwal Hegde has been working with The Times of India since July 2005. She is TOI’s Tennis Editor (Senior Editor). She has reported on all four Grand Slams – Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open- for several years, as also Tour events in Asia and Europe, besides Davis Cup and BJK Cup. Prajwal was awarded the 2021 Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award by the Association of Tennis Professionals, the first Indian and second Asian to receive the honour. Her second novel, a romcom read, The Way We Were was published by Hachette India in September 2023. ‘What’s Good About Falling’ is Prajwal’s debut novel, published by Harper Collins in December 2018.