Join Sanjukta Poddar and Supurna Dasgupta, doctoral students from the University of Chicago’s South Asian Studies program, who will provide an overview of the culture and history of contemporary India and diasporic lives, which serve as the backdrop to Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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