{"id":304,"date":"2012-11-28T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=304"},"modified":"2012-11-28T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:12:33","slug":"ufv-instructor-trevor-carolan-visits-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2012\/11\/28\/ufv-instructor-trevor-carolan-visits-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Instructor Trevor Carolan Visits Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr.\u00a0 Trevor Carolan, an instructor\u00a0with the Department of English at UFV visited the University of Mumbai and was invited to\u00a0do read from his book\u00a0The Lotus Singers<\/em> at\u00a0the Mumbai Writers Festival. Trevor’s trip to Mumbai was coordinated by the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies.<\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt from a letter Trevor wrote detailing his trip and experiences:<\/p>\n

Namoskar Satwinder,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Thought to send\u00a0a quick note from Bombay. Things are proceeding very well here. Arrived in good order.\u00a0 Was received very warmly by staff and\u00a0was introduced\u00a0around. Gave my lecture to a good crowd of students, English Refresher course participants, and a group of\u00a0international grad students there on the E.U.\u00a0 program sponsorship.\u00a0 It went very well indeed–some lively discussion from interested mature students.\u00a0 A good light lunch followed.\u00a0 Invited some of the students and staff to the Festival which opened the next next day and to my delight, several did arrive and were thrilled\u00a0by the buzz. The organizers here know how to pump up the crowds. Events are at the National Perf. Arts Centre–a really special facility. Bollywood stars, sports heroes, politicians, industrial magnates, the cream of Indian writers–huge sellers; unthinkable by Canadian standards–plus a fine group of international authors.\u00a0 Have presented twice at panel discussions addressing The Writer and Activism (with Filip D’Souza and Annie Zaidi, a Tibetan refugee journalist, and Alia Ibrahim, a fine Lebanon journalist who is just away from the front-lines where she covers the war in syria for Arab language t.v.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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With Students and Staff at the Indo Canadian Studies Centre, the sister organization of the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies at UFV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As fate has it, my hosts are the Nanda family. I only knew Neeru Nanda from her writing and included one of her stories in ‘The Lotus Singers.’\u00a0 As it goes, her husband is on the Board of Directors at Mahindra Motors Corporation, so I’ve been received into exceptional apex company here. Mr. N. Godrej, another prominent industrialist who co-sponsors the festival with the Tata family invited a small group of of us from the festival to his terrace for a reception evening and I found myself answering some questions about Canada. Apparently,\u00a0Mr. Harper is leading a delegation here and Mr. Godrej heads the Indian\u00a0business consortium who are meeting him. Mr. Godrej seemed to me a very kindly man.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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With Neeru Nanda, Author and Festival Director<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the end of a long, hot day full of enterprise.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Shivasadh, Shiva Cave<\/p>\n
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With Past Nobel Laureate Sir VS Naipaul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr.\u00a0 Trevor Carolan, an instructor\u00a0with the Department of English at UFV visited the University of Mumbai and was invited to\u00a0do read from his book\u00a0The Lotus Singers at\u00a0the Mumbai Writers Festival. Trevor’s trip to Mumbai was coordinated by the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies. The following is an excerpt from a letter Trevor wrote detailing his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}