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PROMINENT WRITER AMITAV GHOSH WILL MAKE A REPORT ABOUT THE RELATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN AND INDIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE DESERTS OF SYRIA
ARMENPRESS
OCTOBER 26, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS. In frames of the international
conference entitled "The Strategies of Reducing to Silence (and Asking
to Speak)", which kicked off in the American University of Armenia on
October 26, outstanding Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will make a report
in Yerevan. The organizer of the conference Niri Melkonyan informed
"Armenpress" the famous Indian novelist will make a report regarding
the relations between the Armenian and Indian prisoners of war in
the death camps of Syria in 1816-1918. Melkonyan said: "The topics of
Ghosh and other participants of the conference range from the issues
of revision of the national history, limitations and opportunities of
expression of violence and traumas to the perspectives of critique,
which can provide metamorphosis of the heritage of the empires."
Scientists, art critics and culture experts from Armenia, Germany,
Greece, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States will take part in
the conference.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956. He spent his
childhood in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was educated in Delhi,
Oxford and Alexandria. Ghosh is the author of "The Circle of Reason",
"The Shadow Lines", "The Calcutta Chromosome", "The Glass Palace",
"The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies" etc... Ghosh has been lecturing
in a row of universities in India and the United States. He has also
been lecturing in Harvard.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
ARMENPRESS
OCTOBER 26, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS. In frames of the international
conference entitled "The Strategies of Reducing to Silence (and Asking
to Speak)", which kicked off in the American University of Armenia on
October 26, outstanding Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will make a report
in Yerevan. The organizer of the conference Niri Melkonyan informed
"Armenpress" the famous Indian novelist will make a report regarding
the relations between the Armenian and Indian prisoners of war in
the death camps of Syria in 1816-1918. Melkonyan said: "The topics of
Ghosh and other participants of the conference range from the issues
of revision of the national history, limitations and opportunities of
expression of violence and traumas to the perspectives of critique,
which can provide metamorphosis of the heritage of the empires."
Scientists, art critics and culture experts from Armenia, Germany,
Greece, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States will take part in
the conference.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956. He spent his
childhood in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was educated in Delhi,
Oxford and Alexandria. Ghosh is the author of "The Circle of Reason",
"The Shadow Lines", "The Calcutta Chromosome", "The Glass Palace",
"The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies" etc... Ghosh has been lecturing
in a row of universities in India and the United States. He has also
been lecturing in Harvard.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress