Dalit Dystopias & South Asian Science Fictions

Vauhini Vara ('04), journalist and author of The Immortal King Rao and This Is Salvaged, will join us for a two-hour long in-person event on her genre-bending approach to fiction; her critiques of caste and capitalism; and her experiences in creative writing and journalism at Stanford. The event will discuss the ethics and craft of leveraging genre fiction for social critique in consideration of recent trends in post-colonial and diasporic Indian literature written in English.