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Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India

Year: 2020
Names: Nair, Mira, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
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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.

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Vikram Seth on his novel A Suitable Boy

Year: 1993
Names: Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Seth, Vikram, 1952-, Wachtel, Eleanor
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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.

Type: Sound recording non-musical

African Authors series, episode 4: with Lauretta Ngcobo, Micere Mugo, and Buchi Emecheta

Year: 1994
Names: Emecheta, Buchi, Mugo, Micere Githae, Ngcobo, Lauretta G., Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
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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.

Type: Sound recording non-musical

Reinventing India: Writing Since Independence. Series pt. 2: Harish Trivedi on Colonial Transactions

Year: 1998
Names: Rabinovitch, Sandra, Trivedi, Harish, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description:

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.

Type: Sound recording non-musical