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Book Discussion- AIRPLANE MODE: A PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY OF TRAVEL- Shahnaz Habib in conversation with Rohini Mohan | 30th January, 6 PM

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​Join Shahnaz Habib in conversation with Rohini Mohan as they discuss AIRPLANE MODE: A PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY OF TRAVEL. 
The details of the event are as follows- 

DAY- Thursday
DATE- 30TH January 2025
TIME- 6 PM
The seating will be limited. We request you to RSVP here to confirm your presence. 
About the book
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World–raised woman of colour asks: What does it mean to be a joyous traveller when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change? The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the colours of passports and the colour of skin. This insightful debut by Shahnaz Habib parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. All the while, she threads the historic but ever-evolving dynamics of travel into her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom round trips are an annual fact of life. 
Woven throughout the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artefacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism—but as any traveller knows, travel is more than that. 

About the speakers 
Shahnaz Habib is the author of the nonfiction book AIRPLANE MODE, and the translator of the novel JASMINE DAYS, for which she and the author Benyamin won the JCB Prize, India's most valuable prize for literature. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker online, Creative Nonfiction, Agni, Brevity, The Guardian, and Afar. She has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and her work has been cited in the Best American Essays series. She holds a BA from Mahatma Gandhi University, an MA in English Literature from the University of Delhi, and an MA in Media Studies from the New School.

Rohini Mohan is a prize-winning political journalist based in Bangalore, India. She has an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University, New York, where she was a 2009–2010 Presidential Fellow. She has won prestigious awards for her work, including the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2013, London; the ICRC Humanitarian Reporting Award 2012, New Delhi; the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship 2012, New Delhi; and the South Asian Journalists’ Association award 2011, New York. She has written for Tehelka, the Caravan, Outlook, the Hindu and the New York Times.


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