On October 11, 2023, Jai Chakrabarti presented his lecture, “Writing Into Our Many Bodies: Narratives of Diaspora and Home” along with a reading from his novel, A Play for the End of the World.

Jai Chakrabarti’s fiction masterfully weaves Indian and Jewish themes to depict the depths and heights of human experience. His hauntingly brilliant novel A Play for the End of the World explores the role of art in horrific circumstances, the persisting burden of survival, and the possibility of redemption. The novel received the National Jewish Book Award. In his award-wining short fiction, “whether the setting is India or the United States … there is a universality to the characters’ concerns.” (The New York Times)

Co-sponsors:
Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
Crow Museum of Asian Art
U.S. India Chamber of Commerce DFW

Participating sponsors:
Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
Hobson Wildenthal Honors College
Dallas Literary Society