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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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MIT Writers presents . . .
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"I don't quite know hoe Jeffery Paine has done it - except by subtle and provocative genius - but FATHER INDIA is an utterly surprising and indispensable book ... Learned ... Lively ... It renders Jeffery Paine's vast knowledge intimately. FATHER INDIA is a splendid achievement."
- Howard Norman, author of "The Bird Artist"
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FATHER INDIA
by
JEFFERY PAINE
April 29, 1999 - 7:00 p.m.
MIT Room 6-120
77 Mass. Avenue, Cambridge
free and open to the public - no tickets required
Father India explores the life - changing influence of the sub-continent on western ideas of modernity by narrating the curious, spellbinding stories of a succession of twentieth century Europeans and Americans. These major cultural figures - including Lord Curzon, Annie Besant, E.M. Forster, Carl Jung, William Butler yeats, V.S. Naipaul , Christopher Isherwood, martin Luther King, Jr., among others - acted out their most secret dreams in India.
Jeffery Paine is contributing editor, and was for many years literary editor, of the Wilson Quarterly. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and various literary periodicals. He has taught at Princeton University, the New School for Social Research, and the Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
For more information, call 617/253-7894
MIT Program in Writing - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
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