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11th Hasan Memorial Lecture
Sat Aug 16, 7:00 PM
Lamakaan
Title - Time is out of joint - Aug 16th, 2025.
V Geetha is a feminist historian, writer and translator. She has been associated with the Indian women's movements for over three decades. She writes in Tamil and English on caste, gender, labour and education. Her published work includes 'Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India' and 'Undoing Impunity: Speech after Sexuao Violence'.
At 78, the India we have inherited seems particularly inchoate and headed for disaster. Is the present moment exceptional in its evil? Or is it the culmination of a history we have not fully reckoned with?
V. Geeta draws on anti caste and feminist thought to suggest how we may 'read' our times.
The title itself is of course from Shakespeare's Hamlet, signifying a moment when Hamlet's entire world falls out of sync.
V Geetha is a feminist historian, writer and translator. She has been associated with the Indian women's movements for over three decades. She writes in Tamil and English on caste, gender, labour and education. Her published work includes 'Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India' and 'Undoing Impunity: Speech after Sexuao Violence'.
At 78, the India we have inherited seems particularly inchoate and headed for disaster. Is the present moment exceptional in its evil? Or is it the culmination of a history we have not fully reckoned with?
V. Geeta draws on anti caste and feminist thought to suggest how we may 'read' our times.
The title itself is of course from Shakespeare's Hamlet, signifying a moment when Hamlet's entire world falls out of sync.