After Democracy: Culture and Ideas in the Age of Authoritarianism

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 democratic nations slide into authoritarianism? With a focus on the long authoritarian turn in India since the nineties, and with comparisons to the United States, the novelist and 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 Social Justice, and CODE^SHIFT (Collaboratory for Data Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures, and Transformation) 

Born in Shillong, north-eastern India, Siddhartha 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 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 the Fall of India (2024).