Expect to see three heavy weight book launches at the Hindustan Times Kitab Festival that starts on April 7.
There is Edna Fernandes — a British journalist of Indian origin — with her nonfiction title Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of India Fundamentalism (Penguin Books), London-based journalist, Sanjay Suri, who will be releasing his non-fiction work Brideless in Wembley (Penguin Books), and poet and journalist CP Surendran with his novel An Iron Harvest (Roli Books/India Ink).
Fernandes travels to the country’s recent and past theatres of fundamentalism to meet the generals and foot soldiers of communal wars and lets their rage and rhetoric speak for them.
Sanjay Suri kickstarts his tale with his rather ‘unsuccessful search’ for a wife at a marriage mela in Wembley. And An Iron Harvest is based on a true incident, and deals with John a ‘young Che Guevara-like leader’ part of a Maoist revolutionary organisation, Red Earth in Kerala at the time of Emergency. The book, in barest terms, is really about one death and three people.
Also expected on the occasion is British author Deborah Moggach, known best for her novel Tulip Fever. She will be reading from her recently released novel These Foolish Things.
And then there will be Hollywood actor Goldie Hawn discussing her recently penned spiritual memoir, Lotus Grows in the Mud, even as William Dalrymple holds forth on his last work The White Mughals.
{{/usCountry}}And then there will be Hollywood actor Goldie Hawn discussing her recently penned spiritual memoir, Lotus Grows in the Mud, even as William Dalrymple holds forth on his last work The White Mughals.
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