And im going to be talking to you about my book today, the esthetic cold war, decolonization and, global literature. I want to thank the Commonwealth Institute of black studies for this event. Possible today. My project is about effect of the cold war, especially the effect of the competition between the United States and the soviet union on the literatures and the intellectual development of writing in the decolonizing world what was then called the third world is now called sometimes the developing world or the global south. So there have been lots of studies of cold war literature, most of them have focused on what happened in the United States and the soviet union, but as i started to do my research on this, i learned that the u. S. And soviet union in the competition between them had an incredible effect on Literary Development in other parts of the world, especially africa, asia and the caribbean, which were the focus of this book. Now of offering a sort of general overview and s
And im going to be talking to you about my book today, the esthetic cold war, decolonization and, global literature. I want to thank the Commonwealth Institute of black studies for this event. Possible today. My project is about effect of the cold war, especially the effect of the competition between the United States and the soviet union on the literatures and the intellectual development of writing in the decolonizing world what was then called the third world is now called sometimes the developing world or the global south. So there have been lots of studies of cold war literature, most of them have focused on what happened in the United States and the soviet union, but as i started to do my research on this, i learned that the u. S. And soviet union in the competition between them had an incredible effect on Literary Development in other parts of the world, especially africa, asia and the caribbean, which were the focus of this book. Now of offering a sort of general overview and s
A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi
Which truly symbolizes the entry of our country, all of us in some new era, but first, lets share our emotions, share our emotions, pyotr olegovich, well, emotions, of course , that such a grandiose event and this event of a global scale, the fact that the inauguration was shown live by the leading Television Channels of the world, and i want to say separately how it was. Filmed, that from the point of view, i still have some professional deformations, here is the picture that was on these screens, amazing, very solemn, very beautiful, very dignified, and of course , this is essentially the finale president ial election campaign, when he , relying on the support of all layers of society, won with such. Support figures , he has now taken the oath to the people of russia for the next 6 years, this is actually the beginning of a truly new era, although this era is based on the achievements of all previous ones terms, when our president really proved that his words can be trusted, looking
Tonight were really honored again to have amitav ghosh and to be in conversation razia iqbal. Im just going to very briefly read a little bit of bio you and and then im going to turn it over just. One more thing in terms of the format of evening, were going to start with short talk that will help to contextualize the topic and the book and then joined by here. They will have a conversation and then well have a moment for q a and books, as you may have noticed, are on. And amitabh has graciously agreed to sign books upstairs. So with that in mind amitav ghosh is the author of the bestselling eves trilogy, comprised of sea of poppies, shortlisted for the 28 man booker prize, river of smoke and, flood of fire. His other novels include the circle of reason which won the prix de im sure im going to mangle this. Im not even going to say it, but glass palace, hes the author of many of nonfiction, including the great Climate Change the unthinkable and, the nutmegs, curse parables for a planet