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Secure the Base | Calcutta

Wed, 14 Feb

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Victoria Memorial

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Secure the Base | Calcutta
Secure the Base | Calcutta

Time & Location

14 Feb 2018, 6:00 pm

Victoria Memorial, Victoria Memorial Hall, 1, Queens Way, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071, India

About the Event

Victoria Memorial Hall and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts present Secure the Base

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande Eastern Quadrangle, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta ALL ARE WELCOME

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the leading African writers and scholars at work today, he is the author of many novels, short stories, essays, a memoir, and several plays. For more than sixty years, he has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dictatorial betrayal of decolonization, the fight for freedom and subsequent incarceration, and the aspiration toward economic equality in the face of gross inequality.

Sudhanva Deshpande is an actor and director with Jana Natya Manch and editor with LeftWord Books. He is involved in the running of Studio Safdar and…

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The Seagull Foundation

for the Arts

For the past twenty seven years The Seagull Foundation for the Arts has been actively supporting, nurturing and disseminating creative and critical activity in the field of the arts in India, especially fine arts, theatre and cinema, out of a deep conviction and commitment to the belief that the arts are everybody’s responsibility and a social commitment.

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