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Depicting The Diaspora: An Author Panel
SAAS Lecture Series presents:
DEPICTING THE DIASPORA: An Author Panel
with authors Rishi Reddi and Pradeep Anand
RISHI REDDI was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in England and the United States.She graduated from Swarthmore College and Northeastern University School of Law. She has been an enforcement attorney for the state and federal environmental protection agencies, as well as a lawyer for the Massachusetts Secretary of Environment.
Her short stories have appeared in The Harvard Review, Louisville Review and Prairie Schooner, and her English translation of Telugu short fiction has appeared in Partisan Review. Her work has been featured in Best American Short Stories 2005 and received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2004. Rishi Reddi was the recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
In her latest book: Karma and Other Stories, a collection of short stories, Ms. Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian-American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of Western life.
PRADEEP ANAND is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai and has an MBA from the University of Houston. He is president of Seeta Resources, a consulting company, and lives with his family in a Houston suburb.
He has just published his first novel, An Indian in Cowboy Country, a novel in which he straddles two worlds, America and India, and gives insight into an Indian immigrant's journey in dealing with personal, social, professional, and spiritual challenges in migrating to America and merging into its mainstream. -- Visit An Indian in Cowboy Country at www.pradeepanand.com
Date: 04/24/2007
Location: Ticknor Lounge, Harvard University
Time: 6.30 pm
Cost: Free: Chai and snacks will be served!
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