Sarmaya Talks
Friday, 17th February 2023
Sarmaya Arts Foundation is excited to host its series, Sarmaya Talks at the Durbar Hall, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai on Friday, 17th February, 2023 from 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Sarmaya Talks is a space for conversations where we invite scholars, authors and experts to speak on a topic of their choice, introducing our audience to a wide range of subjects from art, culture and history. We have hosted a diverse range of speakers including Ira Mukhoty, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Rana Safvi, Madhavi Menon, Bijoy Jain, V Sriram, Manu Pillai, Devdutt Pattanaik and Javed Akhtar. Sarmaya Talks is a two speaker format event.
Our sessions for the evening are:
The Deccan: Medieval India’s Forgotten Superpower by Anirudh Kanisetti
The Tempestuous Life & Times of Rajaraja and the Cholas by Kamini Dandapani
17th February, 2023 (Friday)
6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Durbar Hall
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Anirudh Kanisetti is the award-winning author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Tata Literature Live! Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022, and was featured in THE WEEK’s 40 Under 40 list for India’s most promising creatives, as well as Open The Magazine’s Open Minds 2022 Soft Power list. Anirudh’s research has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts. His writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, and LiveMint, among others. He writes the popular Thinking Medieval column for The Print. Anirudh was formerly Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography and Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He hosts two popular and critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India and Yuddha.
Kamini Dandapani was born and raised in (once) sleepy Madras. She now lives in the city that never sleeps, New York. She has had extensive training in Carnatic music, Bharata Natyam and Western Classical music (Pianoforte). A longer-than-desired stint in the corporate world that included Chase Manhattan Bank and McKinsey & Co. was followed by a complete change in direction back to her true loves, top among which are music and writing.
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