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SUMMARY:IN PERSON: AUTHOR VISIT: NIDHI THAKUR
DESCRIPTION:Local author Nidhi Thakur will read from and discuss her book 
 When She Married Dr. Patekar And Other Stories with Hunter College 
 Professor Deepsikha Chatterjee. Copies will be available for purchase and 
 autographing. \n\nAbout the book:\n\nMehak\, a famous Bollywood star who 
 marries an ordinary NRI doctor in small-town America\, is stunned at the 
 fickleness of fame. Dark and untold memories of an Uncle in Sarla’s 
 Indian childhood continue to define the word ‘family’ for Sarla as she 
 raises a family in America. These and other global desis in a post-9/11 and 
 pre-WhatsApp world navigate different geographies guided and misled by a 
 lingering nostalgia. Leaving a place is never easy.\n\nAbout the 
 speakers:\n\nDr. Nidhi Thakur is an Indian American poet/writer writing on 
 all things culture-climate-chaos. She was born in Dehradun\, India\, and by 
 way of graduate school\, arrived in the U.S. around the turn of the 
 century. She currently teaches Economics and writes and lives in Short 
 Hills\, NJ\, with her husband and two daughters. Her previous works have 
 been published in anthologies\, and her spoken poetry has been featured in 
 various venues\, including the Jaipur Lit Fest-virtual. When She Married\, 
 Dr. Patekar and Other Stories is her debut book\, on immigrant 
 sensibilities in a post-9/11 U.S.A.\, and is available globally on Amazon. 
 She is at www.nidhithakur.com.\n\nDeepsikha Chatterjee teaches design\, 
 theatre\, and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY. She is a practicing 
 costume designer with several awards to her name. She received her 
 undergraduate degrees in India before moving to the US for her MFA in 
 Costume Design from FSU. Her Ph.D. dissertation is on South Asian masked 
 performances at the CUNY Graduate Center. She researches Bollywood\, 
 costumes\, masks\, and performance design from South Asia and publishes on 
 these topics. Her essay on Indian dance costumes won the USITT’s Herbert 
 D. Greggs Honor Award in 2021. She produces and presents dance from India 
 in New York for Indo American Arts Council.
LOCATION:AUDITORIUM - ROOM A
ORGANIZER;CN="Jon Michaud":MAILTO:jon@millburnlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:ADULT PROGRAMMING EVENTS
CONTACT;CN="Jon Michaud":MAILTO:jon@millburnlibrary.org
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