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PASSAGE TO INDIA – A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India No.2 |
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Ms Farah Farouque |
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PASSAGE TO INDIA – A Book Club Journey through Contemporary India
Explore contemporary India with our experts who will share and lead discussions on their favourite books. Passage to India will review books monthly on Indian modern history, society and foreign politics.
Our second speaker on society is a senior writer from The Age, Farah Farouque.
Farah has been a specialist politics reporter, including three years in the Federal Parliament's press gallery when Paul Keating was prime minister and has previously been the social affairs editor. Farah also reported for The Sydney Morning Herald, for major events in the region such as the Bali bombings of 2002 and the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka in 2004/05. In 2001, Farah was awarded an Asialink media fellowship which involved a three-month overseas work exchange at Tempo news magazine, Jakarta. In 2006, Farah was one of Asialink's IndiaConnect conference speakers.
She will be reviewing and sharing views on Animal's People by Indra Sinha. The background to Animal's People is based on Bhopal and the novel serves as a reminder of the continuing double disaster in that all-too-real city – first the gas leak itself which has killed around 23,000 people directly and through lingering illness. Animal’s People was short-listed for the 2007 Man Booker novel and was Winner 2008 Commonwealth Writers’s Prize for Best Book from Europe and South Asia.
This event is presented by Readings Books Music & Film and Asialink.
WHEN: Tuesday 27 May 2008
TIME: 6.30pm start
WHERE: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne.
ENTRY: Free
RSVP: To reserve a seat, please send an email to Asialink Events at events@asialink.unimelb.edu.au with "Passage to India – Farah Farouque" in the subject line. |
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