Brooklyn Book Festival: From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra, Siddhartha Deb, and Parul Sehgal
Sunday 23 September, 2012
1pm, $0
Brooklyn Borough Hall Community Room
209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY
Leading Indian writers Pankaj Mishra (From the Ruins of Empire: the Intellectuals Who Remade Asia) and Siddhartha Deb (The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India) read from their books and discuss the modern world and the East, and the movements and personalities that helped shape both. Moderated by Parul Sehgal of The New York Times Book Review.