Simona Sawhney: ‘Comrades, Strikes and Strifes’

Thursday 6th April, 2023

1:00 pm, Online

All are welcome to this South Asia Forum discussion of Yashpal’s semi-autobiographical novel Dada Comrade (1941), a pioneering work of Hindi literature. We will be joined in conversation by the literary scholar and political theorist Simona Sawhney, translator of the new Penguin ‘Modern Classics’ English edition.

Please register for this event at QMSawhney.eventbrite.co.uk

All participants are encouraged to read the following in advance: Sawhney’s ‘Introduction’, Yashpal’s ‘Preface: Two Words’ and Chapters 1 + 2. PDF available upon registration.

Simona Sawhney is Associate Professor of Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is the author of The Modernity of Sanskrit (Minnesota, 2009) and translator of Yashpal’s Dada Comrade (Penguin, 2022). Prof Sawhney has written widely on questions of democracy, equality, violence, and revolution.