BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents award-winni ng author \;Siddhartha Deb. \;What does it mean for writers\, thin kers and citizens to live in a time when democratic nations slide into aut horitarianism? With a focus on the long authoritarian turn in India since the nineties\, and with comparisons to the United States\, the novelist an d essayist Siddhartha Deb will discuss the crisis we face and the ways in which we can respond.This event is co-sponsored by The Lender Center for S ocial Justice\, and CODE^SHIFT \;(Collaboratory for Data Equity\, Soci al Healing\, Inclusive Futures\, and Transformation) \;Born in Shillon g\, north-eastern India\, Siddhartha Deb lives in New York. His fiction an d nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Aw ard\, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize\, and been awarded the Pen Open pri ze and the 2024 Anthony Veasna So Fiction prize. His journalism and essays have appeared in \;The New York Times\, \;The Guardian\, \;Th e New Republic\, \;Dissent\, \;The Baffler\, \;N+1\, and \ ;Caravan. His latest works include the novel\, The Light at the End of the World (2023)\, and Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and th e Fall of India (2024). DTEND:20251114T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260614T132119Z DTSTART:20251114T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:After Democracy: Culture and Ideas in the Age of Authoritarianism UID:RFCALITEM639170256790492310 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents award-winning author \;Siddhartha Deb. \;

What does it mean for writers\, thinkers and citizens to live in a time when democr atic nations slide into authoritarianism? With a focus on the long authori tarian turn in India since the nineties\, and with comparisons to the Unit ed States\, the novelist and essayist Siddhartha Deb will discuss the cris is we face and the ways in which we can respond.

This event is co-sp onsored by The Lender Center for Social Justice\, and CODE^SHIFT \;(Co llaboratory for Data Equity\, Social Healing\, Inclusive Futures\, and Tra nsformation) \;

Born in Shillong\, north-eastern India\, Siddhar tha Deb lives in New York. His fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award\, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize\, and been awarded the Pen Open prize and the 2024 Anthony Veasna So Fiction prize.

His journalism and essays have appeared in \;The New York Times\, \;The Guardian\, \;The Ne w Republic\, \;Dissent\, \;The Baffler\,&nb sp\;N+1\, and \;Caravan. His latest works include th e novel\, The Light at the End of the World (2023)\, and Twil ight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India (20 24).

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