June 23: Midnights Borders: A People's History of India by Suchitra Vijayan

June 23, Tuesday11am New York | 8.30pm Delhi | 4pm London Friendly guided discussion about Midnight's Borders: A People's History of India. Author Suchitra Vijayan will join us for the final half hour to chat with partcipants.   Discussion hosted by Aruni Kashyap About the BookThe first true people’s history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world’s biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people–especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India’s vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries. In this stunning work of narrative rep