Book Discussion Group

Amader Shantiniketan
By Shivani, translated by Ira Pande (Vintage Books, New Delhi: 2021)
 
Discussants: Prof. Radha Chakravarty, poet, critic and translator; Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, academic, poet and Convenor, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, ICCR, Kolkata; and Smt Ira Pande, freelance writer and translator of the book
 
Chair: Prof. Pushpesh Pant, academic, food critic and historian
 
This charming memoir is a loving homage to a grand institution and its legendary gurus. Written from the perspective of a child and a young girl, it retains the freshness and innocence of an age when experimental education was not merely a trendy movement