{"id":629,"date":"2013-10-23T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=629"},"modified":"2013-10-23T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:31:54","slug":"reading-from-helium-by-author-jaspreet-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2013\/10\/23\/reading-from-helium-by-author-jaspreet-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading from &#8220;Helium&#8221; by Author Jaspreet Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed author Jaspreet Singh visited the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies on October 10th, 2013 and read from his latest novel <em>Helium<\/em>. The novel, though a work of fiction encompasses around the very real, tragic and horrific government organized\u00a0anti-Sikh pogroms which erupted in 1984 in Delhi, India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. Given that the 29th anniversary of the tragedy will be coming up on November 1st-Jaspreet Singh&#8217;s reading was timely and powerful.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seventeen Tomatoes<\/em>,\u00a0Jaspreet Singh&#8217;s\u00a0debut story collection, won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. <em>Chef<\/em>, his first novel about the damaged landscapes of Kashmir, was a 2010 Observer &#8216;Book of the Year&#8217; and won the Canadian Georges Bugnet Prize for Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The reading at the Centre was very well attended, many of whom included two\u00a0English classes\u00a0from UFV as well as faculty, staff and community members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2013\/10\/DSC_0559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-630\" alt=\"DSC_0559\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2013\/10\/DSC_0559-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2013\/10\/DSC_0561.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-631\" alt=\"DSC_0561\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2013\/10\/DSC_0561-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed author Jaspreet Singh visited the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies on October 10th, 2013 and read from his latest novel Helium. The novel, though a work of fiction encompasses around the very real, tragic and horrific government organized\u00a0anti-Sikh pogroms which erupted in 1984 in Delhi, India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by &#8230; <a title=\"Reading from &#8220;Helium&#8221; by Author Jaspreet Singh\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2013\/10\/23\/reading-from-helium-by-author-jaspreet-singh\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}