At my Dr. Kaung's Salon, at Space 7-10, Kefa Cafe, 963 Bonifant St., Kefa Cafe, Silver Spring, MD
August 24th, Friday, 6.30 PM to 8.30 PM
Do come! Or watch this blog for updates and reports.
Meena A. Nayak will read from her new novel, (Penguin), which takes place in Kashmir, India."Endless Rain" is Meena Nayak's fourth book. She will talk about how she came to write about Kashmir, and her research trips there. Meena teaches Creative Writing and Mythology at Northern Virginia Community College.
Come and find out more about Kashmir -- a place of political turmoil as well as unrivalled beauty, so often featured in world-class writing out of India, especially in the novels of Salman Rushdie. What happens when a writer is compelled to write about a place but knows the research for it could become life threatening?
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Special--interview of Ben Power who adapted 3 Shakeaspeare plays including Richard III
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