Welcome to Celebrate The Podcast Season Two: Flip The Script
Episode 02 : Greater The Conflict, Better The Creativity Ft. Dr Enakshi Sengupta, Ph.D
Dr Enakshi Sengupta debuted as a writer with ‘The Silk Route Spy: The true story of an Indian Double Agent’, which is based on her grandfather in-law Nandlal Kapur’s life. She has been a researcher and scholar all her life and after daringly serving in Kurdistan, where she developed a novel entrepreneurial program jointly sponsored by an international charity and The American University, she was inspired to start Borders Without Barbed Wires, a not-for-profit organization that facilitates accessibility of education for refugees and displaced persons. She was very much in Afghanistan when the Taliban rose to power after the American military withdrew in 2021.
At that time, she was working as the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the American University of Afghanistan. And that’s how her second book, 'Escape From Kabul' was born.
Connect with Enakshi ji on Instagram here: Enakshi Sengupta Kapur (@enakshisg)
Episode Highlights:
1) What Nandlal Kapur actually wanted to be Vs What he ended up being + the women in Kabul: Role of circumstances and personal aspirations
2) What motivated her to tell the story of her grandfather in-law, apprehensions and nature of research done
3) Difference between academic and non academic publishing
4) The world of Publishing in India– difference from world
5) Movie adaption possibilities for The Silk Route Spy: Reasons to be worried
6) How serving in a war zone inspired Border Without Barbed Wires
7) The everyday struggles of the repressed women today in Afghanistan and Iraq
8) Reading excerpts from The Silk Route Spy
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