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Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India
Indian filmmaker Mira Nair spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about her screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's bestselling novel, A Suitable Boy. The series was the closing night presentation at TIFF 2020.
Vikram Seth on his novel A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth discusses his novel A Suitable Boy. Considered the biggest book of the year, it's a story about families, love, marriages, and manners - set against the political events of a newly-independent India.
African Authors series, episode 4: with Lauretta Ngcobo, Micere Mugo, and Buchi Emecheta
More from Africa: Lauretta Ngcobo from South Africa and Micere Mugo from Kenya talk about living in exile. Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta discusses her last novel - her 19th book - Kehinde.
Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence. Series pt. 2: Harish Trivedi on Colonial Transactions
Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence - a series that explores the sub-continent through its novelists, poets, and critics. Series episode 2 - "Colonial Transactions." Eleanor Wachtel talks to Indian literary scholar and critic Harish Trivedi about the relationship between English literature and India - from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot, and from Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to Arundhati Roy.