Features: Salil Tripathi, with Suchitra Vijayan
Date and Time: Saturday, November 8th, 7-9 pm
Venue: Private home in Harlem (122nd Street)
RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org for directions.

Hear Salil Tripathi speak about his monumental work of history The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community with author Suchrita Vijayan. In India alone, there are some 55 million people who consider Gujarati to be their mother tongue, and possibly 6 million more of them abroad, on every continent, if not in every country. Prominent Gujaratis have made their mark not only on India’s economy (Tata, Reliance, Wipro) but also on India’s politics (Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi). Longlisted for the 2025 NIF Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, The Gujaratis delves beneath the stereotypes to ask how the community builds a sense of itself and then takes it too far, making ‘others’ out of Dalits, Muslims, and denotified tribes.

Born in the city once known as Bombay and now living in New York, Salil Tripathi is an award-winning journalist and has written three works of non-fiction, including The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy. He has been a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, and a human rights researcher in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He chaired the PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee and is now a member of its board. He is also on the panel of the Vaclav Havel Center Disturbing the Peace Award.

Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, lawyer, and photographer. She is the author of Midnight’s Borders and co-author of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of India’s Political Prisoners. A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction, she is the founder and publisher of The Polis Project, a global magazine of dissent, and she teaches at Columbia University and New York University.