Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India
VIEW EVENT DETAILSIn her new book Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, Miranda Kennedy explores the intersection of India's traditional culture and modernization through the lives of six women.
Part memoir, part in-depth reporting about women's lives in a very foreign culture, this first book by a young NPR reporter closely examines the lives of Indian women from all walks of life — some of them privileged, some very poor. The India Kennedy discovers, through the lives of her employees and friends, is a complex and traditional place. Women now have more choice than ever before in India when it comes to education and work, yet few are allowed to make what may be the most important decision in their lives: who they will marry.
At this discussion, Kennedy will be addressing how the lives of modern Indian women have changed, as well as reflecting on India as both a rapidly developing and at times unchanging nation.
Miranda Kennedy was a New Delhi–based correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace and National Public Radio for five years. She has written extensively about women, caste, and globalization in India, and her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and Slate.com. Before moving to India, Kennedy worked as a magazine editor and a public radio reporter in New York, where she covered, among other things, the September 11 attacks. She moved to Washington, DC to work as an editor at National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and returns frequently to India.
This event is co-hosted with the International Reporting Project and the SAIS South Asia Studies department.
Part memoir, part in-depth reporting about women's lives in a very foreign culture, this first book by a young NPR reporter closely examines the lives of Indian women from all walks of life — some of them privileged, some very poor. The India Kennedy discovers, through the lives of her employees and friends, is a complex and traditional place. Women now have more choice than ever before in India when it comes to education and work, yet few are allowed to make what may be the most important decision in their lives: who they will marry.
At this discussion, Kennedy will be addressing how the lives of modern Indian women have changed, as well as reflecting on India as both a rapidly developing and at times unchanging nation.
Miranda Kennedy was a New Delhi–based correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace and National Public Radio for five years. She has written extensively about women, caste, and globalization in India, and her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and Slate.com. Before moving to India, Kennedy worked as a magazine editor and a public radio reporter in New York, where she covered, among other things, the September 11 attacks. She moved to Washington, DC to work as an editor at National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and returns frequently to India.
This event is co-hosted with the International Reporting Project and the SAIS South Asia Studies department.
Event Details
Tue 24 May 2011
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Rome Auditorium, 1619 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Free admission, but RSVPs are required by 12 pm on May 23rd.