Remember the Details: Skye Arundhati Thomas & Preti Taneja

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY 28 JULY

In Remember the Details, Skye Arundhati Thomas reflects on the Indian protest movement that began in mid-2019 against xenophobic and casteist citizenship laws. This essay is a piece of political reportage told through the story of images and their afterlife. In the wake of the state erasure of these events, it asks what it means to remember, and how words and imagery inscribe reality into history. Thomas will be in conversation with Preti Taneja.

Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer and editor based in Goa. She writes for the London Review of Books, Artforum, frieze and others. She is co-editor of The White Review.

Preti Taneja is a writer and activist. Her first novel, We That Are Young, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was listed for awards including the Folio Prize and the Prix Jan Michalski. Her second book is the critically acclaimed Aftermath, a lament on the language of prison, terror, trauma and grief. Taneja is Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is a Contributing Editor at And Other Stories, and at The White Review.

*THIS EVENT IS IN-PERSON, AT THE BOOKSHOP*