Amitav Ghosh and Vijay Seshadri--Kicking off a series covering the 2006 Literary Festival hosted by SAWCC

Mixed Messages 1

Duration 34m 16s

For the kick-off event for Mixed Messages, the South Asian Women's Creative Collective's Literary Festival, acclaimed writer
Amitav Ghosh read from his latest book,
Incendiary Circumstances while
Vijay Seshadri read prose and poems from
The Long Meadow.

Both writers share many similarities--both are professors of Indian background, and of the same generation--yet they are profoundly different in their approach to the world, and to their writing. While it's tempting to do so, one cannot simply boil it down to "one grew up in the East, the other in the West."