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18:45: Registration 
19:00: Program Starts
20:15: Program Ends
ASHK Members/Friends of IBB/Students Ticket: HKD 450
Non-Member Ticket: HKD 480

Multiple award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple explores the stories, personalities and events that shaped the largest empires in history. In addition to his numerous books and accolades, Dalrymple is the co-host of Empire, the internationally acclaimed podcast that explores the roots, deeds, and legacies of the most notable empires to ever exist. His latest book, The Golden Road, published on September 5, 2024 is a revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

There will be a brief book signing with Mr. Dalrymple following the event, with his books available for sale onsite.

William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. 

About India by the Bay:
India by the Bay is Hong Kong’s only annual, week-long celebration of Indian arts, culture and heritage. Each year, the festival brings the soul of India and its unique diversity to the city’s shores, with a curation featuring music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature, wellness, fashion and food. For nearly a decade, India by the Bay has served as a cultural bridge – engaging and entertaining the people of Hong Kong and fostering conversations and collaborations. The festival is co-presented by Teamwork Arts and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. In its 9th edition, India by the Bay is reaffirming its commitment to exploring the arts as a powerful conduit for connection. 

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