Dear Members:

India Club is delighted to be presenting the first Indian Writers’ Festival in Singapore on June 5th and 6th. We will shortly be sending you details of the exciting programme for the second day of the Festival (June 6th), but first we would like to invite all India Club members to the inaugural event on Friday evening, June 5th. The schedule for that evening is as follows:

5th JUNE

5:30 pm-6:30 pm
Registration
6:15 pm-6:30 pm
VIP’s expected, including a Singapore Minister and HE Dr. Jaishankar, India’s High Commissioner to Singapore
6:30 pm-6:45 pm
Talk begins - Intro & speech by PK Basu on IWF ‘09.
Introduction to the writers: Anita Jain, Shobhaa De, Loveleen Tandan, Sudeep Chakravarti, Neel Chowdhury, Venita Coelho, Poonam Surie.
6:45 pm-7:15 pm
Keynote Speaker - Anita Jain, author of the New York Times best-seller novel, “Marrying Anita”
7:15 pm-7:45 pm
Discussion with Shobhaa De Q&A
7:45 pm-8:15 pm
Poonam Surie (author of a book on Indian influences on China) in Conversation with Sudeep Chakravarti
8:15 pm-8:45 pm
Surprise Q&A with Lovleen Tandan, co-director of the Oscar-winning movie, “Slumdog Millionaire”
8:45 pm-9:30 pm
Dinner and Book signing

The event will be held at the Pod, in the National Library, a beautiful venue with a grand view of the Singapore skyline. It is free for members of the India Club, but we have a limited number of 50 seats available, which we will book on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register with office@indiaclub.org.sg or by phoning/SMSing Amrita Das at 92270957 by this Friday, May 22nd.

Warm regards,

PK Basu

The India Club-IndiaSe Literary Salon

presents

Sudeep Chakravarti

Author of “Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country", one of amazon.com’s “Top 10 Hot new releases” among Political/History Books worldwide in January 2009, and of the celebrated novel, “Tin Fish” (Penguin, 2005), which has aptly been called “India’s answer to JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye“, including in its use of an authentic lingo heard mainly among India’s finest English-language public schools, and of the wonderful new novel set in Goa, “Once Upon a Time in Aparanta".

Sudeep Chakravarti became a full-time writer in 2005, based primarily in Goa. But he has been Business Editor of India Today, and Consultant Editor of the Hindusthan Times, after starting his career in the New Delhi bureau of the Asian Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Co.) in 1985, soon after graduating from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Date: February 17th, 2009
Venue: The Pod, at the National Library
Time: 6:30pm
Attendance is free. Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP: office@indiaclub.org.sg

The INDIA CLUB, Singapore

is delighted to present an exclusive

DIALOGUE SESSION

with

HE Dr. S. Jaishankar
High Commissioner of India to Singapore

Apart from his skills as a diplomat, His Excellency Dr. Jaishankar is one
of India’s leading strategic thinkers, especially on nuclear issues. He was
part of the exclusive group of 6-7 key Indian negotiators of the US-India
civilian nuclear cooperation agreement that was signed last month after 3
years of difficult give and take. The deal has transformed India’s
strategic landscape, and Dr. Jaishankar has graciously agreed to talk about
the process of achieving the landmark agreement and the benefits it
promises to bring India in the long term. He will also address other
foreign policy questions that he is involved with, including India’s
growing economic and socio-political links to South-east Asia.

Venue: Raffles Room, Tanglin Club
Date: Friday, 14th November 2008
Time: 7:15pm (registration begins at 6:45pm)
Charges: Free for India Club members; $25 for non-members
(Refreshments will be served after the dialogue session)

RSVP: office@indiaclub.org.sg

The India Club is delighted to support

The Launch of a Book by a long-standing India Club member, Sanjeev Sanyal,
“The Indian Renaissance: The Rise of India after a Thousand Years of Decline”

The author: Sanjeev Sanyal has been a Singapore-based senior regional economist with the Global Markets group of Deutsche Bank since 1997, and is also an Adjunct Fellow at Singapore’s Institute of
Policy Studies.
The book: Till a thousand years ago, India was a great nation ? the world’s largest economy, the lynchpin of global trade, a hub of intellectual activity and a cultural super-power. Now, after ten centuries of decline, India has an opportunity to re-emerge not just as an economy but as a civilization. In “The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline", Sanjeev looks at the processes that led to ten
centuries of decline. He then examines the powerful economic and social forces that are now working together to transform India beyond recognition.

These range from demographic shifts to rising literacy levels. However, the most important revolution of all is the opening of minds and the dramatically changed attitude towards innovation and risk. With clarity,
understanding and insight, the author tells the story from the perspective of the new generation of Indians who have emerged from this great period of change.

The event: Apart from a book reading by the author, there will be a discussion of the book by HE Dr S. Jaishankar, High Commissioner of India to Singapore and Dr. Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

Date: Friday, Sept 5th, 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Churchill Room, Tanglin Club
Attendance is free
RSVP: office@indiaclub.org.sg

All India Club members and friends are invited.

Dear INDIA CLUB members and Friends-of INDIA CLUB

Close on the heels of the reading by Anita Desai, we are delighted to present a book reading by yet another Indian author, David Davidar as part of the INDIA CLUB-IndiaSe Literary Salon.

Davidar is the author of the novel The House of Blue Mangoes, which was published in 2002. It was translated into 16 languages and was a New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense Pick. His new novel, The Solitude of Emperors, was launched in September 2007 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
In 1985, while still in his mid-twenties, he became one of the founding members of Penguin in India, where he edited or published authors like Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Khushwant Singh, R.K. Narayan, Shobhaa De, Romila Thapar, Shashi Tharoor, Suketu Mehta, William Dalrymple, Mohsin Hamid and Ramachandra Guha. He is one of the few publishers who is a successful author in his own right. In 2004 he was transferred to Penguin Books in Canada where he now works and resides.

David will be in Singapore for just one day 1st September 2008. You are invited to attend his reading at the National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street, on Level 1 at the Visitor’s Briefing room at 5:30 p.m. Admission for this event is free.

Please RSVP to Ms Amrita Das at 92270957.