Kushanava Choudhury, who grew up in Calcutta and Highland Park, will read from his new book , The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta on Saturday, April 14 at 2 :00 PM at the Highland Park Public Library, 31 North Fifth Avenue. A reception and book signing will follow. For more information call the library at 732-572-2750 or go to the website at www.hpplnj.org.
After graduating from Princeton University, he worked as a reporter at the Statesman in Calcutta. He went on to receive a PhD in political theory from Yale University before returning to Calcutta to write a book about the city. Choudhury will talk about his childhood city, once the capital of the British Raj and later India’s industrial and cultural hub. Through vivid details and stories that wind through back streets and monuments left from the Victorian era, we will gain access to a Calcutta few of us are familiar with. A book signing will follow the reading.
