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DESCRIPTION:The Right to be Offended:\n	Debating Censorship in India's New D
 emocracy\n	Dr. Arshia Sattar\nJoin us September 18\, 2014 3:30-5 p.m. in th
 e Discovery Room\, 163 Student Union\nFollowed by refreshments and an exhi
 bit of books banned in South Asia until 7 p.m. in the Endeavor Room\, 156 
 Student Union\nThis event is free and open to the public.\nFor more inform
 ation\, contact Alpana Sharma at alpana.sharma@wright.edu or (937) 775-313
 6.\nSponsored by the Department of English\, the Honors Program at Wright 
 State University\, and CELIA.\nThis counts as an Honors Dialogue event.\n 
 \n\nDr. Arshia Sattar earned her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Litera
 tures at the University of Chicago\, working closely with Dr. Wendy Donige
 r\, whose study of [[{'type':'media'\,'view_mode':'default'\,'fid':'22805'
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 ypeof':'foaf:Image'\,'width':'300'}}]]Hinduism\,   The Hindus: An Alternat
 ive History\, was banned in India in February 2014. Her translations of th
 e Valmiki Ramayana (1996) and Tales from the Kathasaritsagara (1993) are p
 ublished by Penguin Books as is her collection of essays on the Ramayana\,
  Lost Loves: Exploring Rama's Anguish (2011)\, which was short-listed for 
 the Crossword Non-Fiction Award in 2012. She has also written three books 
 for children\, most recently\, Adventures with Hanuman (Red Turtle\, 2013)
 . Her latest book\, The Mouse Merchant: Tales of Money in Ancient India (A
 lan Payne\, Penguin 2013)\, is a compilation of stories from Sanskrit text
 s about attitudes to money. Dr. Sattar teaches classical Indian literature
 s at various institutions across the country and\, with D. W. Gibson\, is 
 the Founder and Director of Sangam House\, an international writers' resid
 ency program located outside Bangalore. Dr. Sattar was a Fulbright Scholar
  in Residence at Hampshire College in 2010 and a Rockefeller Fellow in Tra
 nslation at the Bellagio Center in Italy in 2009. She has also held two Ch
 arles Wallace fellowships as a translator in 1998 and 2013.
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LOCATION:163 Student Union\, Discovery Room
SUMMARY:The Right to be Offended: Debating Censorship in India's New Democr
 acy
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