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*Event brief:* 'Bombay Dost' magazine hosts Minal Hajratwala, the author of 'Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents'. Minal will read from the queer sections from her book, which leads us to reflect on the universally resonant story of what it means to leave one home and choose another.... She will also read from her earlier writing, and this will followed by a discussion with Minal.
*Copies of the book will be available at a discount.*
*About Leaving India:* The book has been called “incomparable” by Alice Walker and “searingly honest” by the Washington Post. Minal spent seven years researching and writing the book, traveling the world to interview more than 75 members of her extended family. As the daughter of immigrants and the granddaughter of weavers, Minal Hajratwala grew up accustomed to crossing lines. In this groundbreaking work, she weaves together history, memoir, and reportage to explore questions facing not only her own family but that of every migrant: Where did we come from? Why did we leave? What did we lose and gain? Traveling the world, she learns how her family, originally from India, came to be spread across five continents and nine countries over more than a century of migration — a movement that parallels the phenomenal growth of India’s diaspora. Through the lives of her kin in Fiji, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand, and through the story of Minal’s own parents’ accidental immigration to the United States, Leaving India delves into the relationship between personal choice and the sweeping historical forces that have led Indians to migrate, often again and again. This page-turning and lyrical book of narrative nonfiction leads us to reflect on the universally resonant story of what it means to leave one home and choose another — both for those who do the leaving, and for their descendants.
*About Minal Hajratwala:* Besides being a writer, Minal is also a poet, performer, and queer activist based in San Francisco, where she was born before being whisked off to be raised in New Zealand and suburban Michigan. Her creative work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and theater spaces, and has received recognition and support from the Sundance Institute, the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, the SerpentSource Foundation, and the Hedgebrook writing retreat for women, where she currently serves on the Alumnae Leadership Council. Her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium,” was commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for World AIDS Day in 1999. As a journalist, she worked at the San Jose Mercury News for eight years, was a board member of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2000-01. She is a graduate of Stanford University.
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*Time:* 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
*Venue & directions:* Centre for Excellence (CEFE), Humsafar Trust, Riviera building, Flat no. 2, Ground floor, 15th Road, Near RBI Colony, Santacruz (W), Mumbai - 54. On Linking Road, take the lane next to Tommy Hilfiger and Standard Chartered Bank (opposite Benetton), then take the third right. View location at http://tinyurl.com/CefeMap.
*Space courtesy:* The Humsafar Trust.
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A Bombay Dost Sunday High special
Time:5:30PM Sunday, December 13th
Location:Centre for Excellence (CEFE), Humsafar Trust, Riviera building, Flat no. 2, Ground floor
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