Book Launch: Devrani Jethani ki Kahani or A Story of Two Sisters-in-Law

The University of Chicago Center in Delhi
DLF Capitol Point
Baba Kharak Singh Marg
New Delhi, India 110001

Please join us for an evening of literary exploration at the Book Launch and Panel Discussion of Gauri Datt’s Devrani Jethani ki Kahani or A Story of Two Sisters-in-Law, Translated and Annotated with an Introduction by Smita Gandotra and Ulrike Stark (Primus).

A panel discussion on Gauri Datt’s book, often considered the first novel in Hindi, will be initiated by Simona Sawhney (IIT-Delhi) and Udaya Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), followed by brief comments from the translators, Ulrike Stark (University of Chicago) and Smita Gandotra (St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi). B.N. Varma as Former Head, Primus Books, Delhi, will also address the audience.

Panelists

Simona Sawhney

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT-Delhi

Her teaching and research focus on modern Indian literature and political thought, literary theory and feminist thought.

Udaya Kumar

Centre for English Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University

His teaching and recent research focus on modern Indian literature, death and contemporary culture, forms of life writing and idioms of vernacular social thought.

Ulrike Stark

Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
The University of Chicago

Her research focuses on modern Hindi literature and South Asian book history.

Smita Gandotra

Department of English
St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Her research focuses on gendered print cultures in Hindi and vernacular educational discourse of the late colonial period

B.N. Varma

Former Head
Primus Books, Delhi