Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century | Joya Chatterji in conversation with Pragya Tiwari | | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024

Academic and writer Joya Chatterji's recent work, Shadows at Noon, navigates decades of research and scholarship to explore key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century. Weaving through themes of nationalism, migration, food, and the search for self, the narrative follows the story of Partition and Independence, and the formation of the modern nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. In conversation with Pragya Tiwari, Chatterji delves into the cultural, political, and social makeup of the region, examining the threads that unify us all.

Joya Chatterji is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History at the University of Cambridge and sometime Reader in International History at the London School of Economics. From 2010 to 2021, she was first Editor then Editor-in-Chief of Modern Asian Studies, a leading scholarly journal in the field. Between 2014 and her retirement in 2019, she was Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018.

Pragya Tiwari is a strategy and culture consultant, Creative Director of Oijo Media and co-founder of the Indian History Collective. As a journalist she has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and has edited several publications, including Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture, and Vice.

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