General Public

Our annual closing event returns, featuring short readings by the 2022 prize recipients.

Zaffar Kunial reads from his new book of poems England’s Green and discusses the genesis of the book with Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, and current chair of the South Asian Studies Council. Free copies to the first fifty guests! Signing to follow.

Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English Langdon Hammer talks with poet Zaffar Kunial about the sources of his poetry, from song lyrics to family histories to his undying love for the sport of English cricket.

International Security Studies will host a Virtual Discussion Forum focused on the complex, volatile
relationship between India and China featuring one of India’s most prominent foreign affairs journalists.
Sushant Singh is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, founder of The India Cable, and former Deputy Editor of The Indian Express newspaper, where he covered international affairs and national security. He is in residence at Yale this semester as a lecturer in Political Science and South Asian Studies.

Join us for an online concert of devotional sung poetry from Bengal, featuring the musicians Dyuti Chakraborty and Rahul Krishna Bharadwaj. The concert will present songs from the genre of padabali kirtan that depict the lilas, or divine play, of the Hindu deities Radha and Krishna. Composed in a number of regional dialects of eastern India during the early modern period, the repertoire of devotional poetry presented in this concert remains central to the performative and literary culture in the region.