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DESCRIPTION:This talk centers on my writing process behind The Bell in the Body, a speculative memoir manuscript that begins with the faint trace of my great-grandfather—freedom-fighter and journalist Kali Nath Roy who I'd only known as “a great and principled journalist.” When the official archives yielded silences and deliberate erasures regarding Kali Nath's life and relatives that family memory could not fill in, I turned to imagination, ancestral haunting, and speculative nonfiction to write into what could not be recovered otherwise, acts that risked creating new versions of the official story, distorting memory, and offering no guarantee of truth. Moving among colonial Punjab, Khulna, and Calcutta and my own diasporic body, this work became not only an act of historical recovery but also a creative reckoning with the implications and responsibilities of reconstructing family history from fragments, ghosts, and longing.
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Brown Bag Biography with Anjoli Roy
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