Podcasts about hirsh sawhney

This inaugural episode of the Words of Wesleyan features Hirsh Sawhney, Associate Professor of English, and Shlok Sharma '23, prospective computer science major. In the first half of the episode, we hear Professor Sawhney read a segment of "The Buddha of Suburbia," by Hanif Kureshi, and talk to him about South Asian identity, teaching, and life-giving writing. In the second half, Shlok Sharma reads "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, and we have a conversation about humor, computer science stereotypes, and feeling heard by art. Here's what Shlok had to say about why he nominated Professor Sawhney: "I was part of Professor Sawhney's class last year where we examined different South Asian texts and visual pieces and understood how to specifically analyze them in the broader context of Indian history, and how we understand the country today. In that class, Professor Sawhney always made sure to push me as both a reader and (even more specifically) a writer, and he showed me how to think more analytically and rigorously about material I had taken for granted." Thanks to Shlok and Professor Sawhney for their appearances on this episode! The Words of Wesleyan is produced by the Shapiro Center for Writing at Wesleyan University. Host: Anna Tjeltveit Creators: Anna Tjeltveit, Amy Bloom, Stephanie Weiner Theme Music: "Let Me Make It Clear" by Wesleyan Professor of Music Jay Hoggard

Hirsh Sawhney files a lockdown dispatch from New Haven, Connecticut, the uneasy home of Yale University; Arin Keeble talks us through the tricksy, rewarding and under-known work of Percival Everett; Lauren Kassel on the history of astrology, one of the oldest, most complex, intellectually powerful – and controversial – sciences Telephone by Percival EverettA Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the birth of science by Alexander Boxer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2017, we hosted novelists Kamila Shamsie and Hirsh Sawhney, both writers who released new novels about South Asian families fractured in the diaspora. Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire takes Sophocles’s classic tragedy Antigone as the starting point for her novel about political tensions in the War on Terror and the way it impacts Muslim families in the West. Hirsh Sawhney’s debut novel South Haven illustrates how grief complicates and splinters intimacy in an Indian-American family. The two authors read from their work, and talk with journalist Rozina Ali about power structures, American Empire in literature, the collective grief following Partition in 1947, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, as well as speak to America’s complicity in the formation of ISIS, and debunk myths on the War on Terror. The authors also do a deep dive on craft, and discuss authenticity and the responsible imagination; as well as how to control (and not control) when your audience misreads your writing.

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Mark Ford on Thomas Hardy's unlikely London romance; Hirsh Sawhney on Aravind Adiga's captivating new novel and his messy portrait of India; to tie in with a special run of features on the Middle East, TLS editors Robert Irwin and Toby Lichtig discuss the challenges, historical and present, facing the region; and finally, Mark Ford reads Thomas Hardy's poem "Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening", from 1872. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hirsh Sawhney talks about his new novel South Haven, set in an imagined suburb of Connecticut and published by Akashic Books. The conversation ranges from this very local story to the immigrant, Indian and transnational cultures that Sawhney and his writings … View full post →