Speaking of the City w/ Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Bangalore’s World-Famous Semi-Deluxe Writing Program and Shoonya Invite you for a talk by Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed; an award-winning journalist writing for Frontline on religion, gender, caste and class. Vikhar has also reported extensively on communal issues in Karnataka. He will be in conversation with travel and detective novel writer Zac O’ Yeah.

Bangalore’s World-Famous Semi-Deluxe Writing Program sponsors a monthly curated talk called Speaking of the City, at Shoonya – Centre for Art and Somatic Practices (Lalbagh Road). Writers, artists, journalists, scholars, architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, historians, geographers, activists or anyone who has worked on Bangalore will be invited to speak of this city that we all inhabit.

The first talk in our lecture series, in July 2017, was with Ramachandra Guha, and was followed by a session with Vivek Shanbhag, both of which pulled in big crowds. Sugata Srinivasaraju thrilled us in October with his thoughts on growing up in the city and how it has affected his views on writing – and his work as an editor, translator, and top journalist. The fourth talk featured internationally bestselling and critically-acclaimed Lavanya Sankaran, who shared her thoughts with us in an exclusive event. In the fifth, popular History author Maya Jayapal evoked the nostalgic confluences that make Bangalore the city it is. Our last talk, was with none other than Anita Nair – on the 25th of February.