Asia Society and Museum (Venue Partner)
725 Park Avenue
212.288.6400
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Akash Kapur in conversation with Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker
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Thursday Mar 15 (6:30pm)
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Directions: Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to Madison & 70th; M101, M102 to Lexington & 70th; M30 to Park & 72nd; M66 to Park & 68th OR Subway: #6 to 68th St.
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$15 / $12 students and seniors with ID
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The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his country of birth, eager to be part of its exciting growth and modernization in the newly emerging global order. What he found was a nation even more transformed than he had imagined and where the changes were fundamentally altering Indian society, for better and sometimes for worse.
To further understand these changes, he sought out the Indians experiencing them firsthand, not only among the social upwardly mobile urbanites but rural dwellers whose traditional worlds are changing before their eyes and who variously embrace and mold those changes to their own needs while they themselves are being irrevocably changed.
Followed by a book sale and signing.
