3.45 p.m. Readings K Srilata IIT Madras and Chennai Mathematical Institute. 12-09-12 Abstract K Srilata will read from her work-in-progress: a novella tentatively titled "Rain Bagchi, Wannabe Writer" and a set of poems. "Rain Bagchi, Wannabe Writer" Rain Bagchi, an English Studies lecturer, dreams of becoming a published writer. But the tyrannical new head of the Department of English, Knowledge University, where she teaches has made up his mind to introduce a teaching programme in Cultural Studies. It is a move that is resented by all his colleagues, by Rain most of all, because it will put a stop to her already fragile writing career. Raman, her quixotic, unambitious colleague, is upset for altogether different reasons. A comic novella, "Rain Bagchi: Wannabe Writer", traces the intense dynamics that play out in the theatre that is academia. "English Sentence and Other Poems": A mix of poems, both funny and sad, on a range of themes - writing that often becomes mired in cliches, a woman who wakes up one morning and finds herself without a face and words that find their way into the mouths of ornamental fish.
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