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After Democracy: Culture and Ideas in the age of Authoritarianism

What does it mean for writers, thinkers, and citizens to live in a time when democratic nations slide into authoritarianism? With a focus on the long authoritarian turn in India since the nineties, and with comparisons to the United States, the novelist and essayist Siddhartha Deb will discuss the crisis we face and the ways in which we can respond.