The Twelfth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Thursday, November 18th to Sunday, November 21st 2021

Literature Unmasked

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Rebecca Solnit

Writer, Historian & Activist, USA

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. Her books include Orwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the Guardian and serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International.

sessions

Celebrating Women : The Shashi Baliga Memorial Session – Indefatigable

  • 18th November
  • 9:00 pm - 9:45 pm

A portrait of the writer as a feminist icon
Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Menaka Guruswamy

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