Book Discussion : WATER DAYS with Sundar Sarukkai and Srikar Raghavan

About the Experience

A community in tumultuous post-liberalization Bangalore grapples with an influx of northern immigrants and the mysterious death of Archana, a teenager involved with one of the migrants. Working with all the means and tools offered to a mature writer, Sundar Sarrukai depicts the overnight springing up of new neighborhoods and ways of living, new jobs, new migrations and growing tensions. We are given a sense of how untrammeled urbanization has turned the local administration rogue and uncaring. All along, men and women line up to collect water and stories in the dead of night. Join us to discuss the themes mentioned in this book with Sundar Sarrukai, author and Srikar Raghavan, writer and researcher.