New episode of ON South Asia: Book Talk: International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in conversation with literary critic Claudia Kramatschek

On the occasion of the English translation of Geetanjali Shree's novel Hamara Sheher Us Baras (1998), published as Our City that Year in 2025, the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg hosted a book talk with the author. The discussion with Shree, an International Booker Prize winning Hindi author, was led by literary critic Claudia Kramatschek and takes a close look at the novel and its background. Learn what inspired Shree to write the book, insights into its characters, and how the story engages with questions of politics and society. The episode also features a reading, both in Hindi original and in German translation.​