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Brown History PodcastEP 72: Deepa MehtaOn today's episode of the Brown History Podcast, we sit with acclaimed Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Her work is fearless, powerful, and deeply human. Each of her films tells a different story, in a different way—but what ties them all together is her deep and unwavering love for her people. She captures their history, their joy, and their sorrow with honesty and grace. Her films are bold. They’re visually stunning. And they don’t shy away from the hard truths. This month, the Toronto International Film Festival is honoring Deepa Mehta’s remarkable 30-year career with a special...2025-04-0745 min
Brown History PodcastDeepa MehtaOn today's episode of the Brown History Podcast, we sit with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Her work is fearless, powerful, and deeply human. Each of her films tells a different story, in a different way—but what ties them all together is her deep and unwavering love for her people. She captures their history, their joy, and their sorrow with honesty and grace. Her films are bold. They’re visually stunning. And they don’t shy away from the hard truths. This month, the Toronto International Film Festival is honouring Deepa Mehta’s remarkable 30-year career with a specia...2025-04-0745 min
IdeasWhat It Means To Belong In The World: Writer M.G. VassanjiThe celebrated writer M.G. Vassanji argues that there’s a more fundamental and even slipperier endeavour than establishing one’s identity, and that’s how — if ever — can we establish a sense of belonging? For many, he says, our true home is nowhere... exactly.2024-12-0354 min
conscient podcaste205 sheila james - create, heal, loveIn the face of destruction, we should create. In the face of hurt, we should heal. In the face of hate, we should love. That's my feeling and figuring out how to do that is everybody's job.I’ve known Sheila James for 25 years as an arts funder colleague, artist, filmmaker, writer, but also her work as an equity expert, social activist and as a family friend. Our conversation began with an overview of her views on equity and how it differs from equality. For example: Equity is actually acknowledging that for some people who are disa...2024-10-0853 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by M.G. VassanjiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades...2024-03-2610 min
Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceNowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging by M.G. VassanjiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades...2024-03-2610 min
Enhance Your Knowledge Through the Magic of Full AudiobookNowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Audiobook by M.G. VassanjiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 693108
Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:53:10
Language: English
Release date: 03-26-24
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Social Science, History & Culture
Summary:
From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world.
Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home.
M...2024-03-267h 53
Enhance Your Knowledge Through the Magic of Full AudiobookEverything There Is Audiobook by M.G. VassanjiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 650298
Title: Everything There Is
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Leslie Ann Sheppard, Vik Sahay
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:31:13
Language: English
Release date: 09-05-23
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, General
Summary:
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire.
Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the fi...2023-09-059h 31
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Everything There Is by M.G. VassanjiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650298to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Everything There Is
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Vik Sahay, Leslie Ann Sheppard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Release date: September 5, 2023
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Th...2023-09-059h 31Download New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalEverything There Is by M.G. VassanjiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650298to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Everything There Is
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Vik Sahay, Leslie Ann Sheppard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Release date: September 5, 2023
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the first step in a grand unification of forces and a Th...2023-09-059h 31
Writers Festival RadioWhat You Are with M.G. VassanjiDon’t miss this conversation between Peter Schneider, Manager and Executive Secretary of the Public Lending Right Program, and M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award. Vassanji’s latest collection of short fiction, What You Are, explores the tensions between remembering past homes and belonging in new ones.
Weaving between wistful memories of youthful ambition and the compromises and comforts of age, travelling between the streets of Dar es Salaam and Toronto, the characters in these stories must negotiate distance--between here and there; between lives imagined and lives lived; between expectation and disa...2021-06-1134 min
MISTI RadioThe South Asians of East AfricaMIT-India and MIT-Africa were thrilled to team up to host a conversation with MIT alumni, students, and faculty on difficult but necessary topics around diaspora, race, inclusion, and identity. Today we are going to share parts of that conversation.
The event featured MG Vassanji, Class of 1974, a Kenyan-born, Tanzanian-raised South Asian who currently lives in Canada. Dr. Vassanji is a prize-winning novelist and while at MIT, he co-founded the MIT African Students Association.
The panel also included MIT history Professor Kenda Mutongi, author of Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi; Also students Boluwatife...2021-05-2429 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Fiction, HistoricalA Delhi Obsession by M.G. VassanjiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369261to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Delhi Obsession
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Release date: December 10, 2019
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji returns with a powerful new novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi. Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he has lost all family connections, and has never visited India before. While sitting in the bar of...2019-12-108h 09
Enhance Your Knowledge Through the Magic of Full AudiobookDelhi Obsession Audiobook by M.G. VassanjiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 369261
Title: Delhi Obsession
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:09:34
Language: English
Release date: 12-10-19
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, General
Summary:
Two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji returns with a powerful new novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi.
Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he has lost all family connections, and has never...2019-12-108h 09
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeM.G. Vassanji on Mordecai RichlerM. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in theoretical nuclear physics. From 1978-1980 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atomic Energy of Canada, and from 1980 to 1989 he was a research associate at the University of Toronto. During this period he developed a keen interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing stories and a novel. In 1989, with...2009-07-1923 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File PodcastM.G. Vassanji on Mordecai RichlerM. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in theoretical nuclear physics. From 1978-1980 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atomic Energy of Canada, and from 1980 to 1989 he was a research associate at the University of Toronto. During this period he developed a keen interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing stories and a novel. In 1989, with...2009-07-1923 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File PodcastM.G Vassanji on his Critics In a conversation I had with him, Canadian critic, editor and short story writer John Metcalf hauls off on both the Giller Prize and two-time winner M.G. Vassanji; the former for boosterism and an inability to distinguish between good and bad literature (for placing two-time winner Alice Munro in the same category as Vassanji), and the latter for being a person who, ‘there’s no question,’ can’t " handle the English language". I met with Vassanji in Montreal at the Blue Met Writers Festival ostensibly to talk about his new Penguin biography of Mordecai Richler (please stay tuned...2009-06-0909 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeM.G Vassanji on his Critics In a conversation I had with him, Canadian critic, editor and short story writer John Metcalf hauls off on both the Giller Prize and two-time winner M.G. Vassanji; the former for boosterism and an inability to distinguish between good and bad literature (for placing two-time winner Alice Munro in the same category as Vassanji), and the latter for being a person who, ‘there’s no question,’ can’t " handle the English language". I met with Vassanji in Montreal at the Blue Met Writers Festival ostensibly to talk about his new Penguin biography of Mordecai Richler (please stay tuned...2009-06-0909 min
Get Lost in the World of Stories With Free AudiobookAssassin's Song Audiobook by M.G. VassanjiListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 59058
Title: Assassin's Song
Author: M.G. Vassanji
Narrator: Firdous Bamji
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:10:11
Language: English
Release date: 05-15-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction
Summary:
The magnificent new novel from the award-winning author of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (This beautiful novel . . . is proof that fictional truth can illuminate an epoch in history like nothing elseThe Boston Globe).
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaagthe shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufibegins to tell the...2009-05-152h 10
Nigel Beale's Biblio File PodcastJohn Metcalf on Negative ReviewingI interviewed Canadian critic/editor/writer John Metcalf on his love of Books and Book Collecting. The same afternoon we also talked about the process of book reviewing, whether or not the use of insult and/or invective is ever justified and if so, when. John is known as a ‘blunt’ critic; one who tells his un-sugared truths directly, who is not reticent to attack ‘with savagery’ books he feels 'insult' him. The conversation refers, among other things, to the Salon des Refuses exercise undertaken by Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly magazines, personal slights, the problem of award...2009-05-1436 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeJohn Metcalf on Negative ReviewingI interviewed Canadian critic/editor/writer John Metcalf on his love of Books and Book Collecting. The same afternoon we also talked about the process of book reviewing, whether or not the use of insult and/or invective is ever justified and if so, when. John is known as a ‘blunt’ critic; one who tells his un-sugared truths directly, who is not reticent to attack ‘with savagery’ books he feels 'insult' him. The conversation refers, among other things, to the Salon des Refuses exercise undertaken by Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly magazines, personal slights, the problem of award...2009-05-1436 min
Needs No IntroductionPEN Canada's Annual Fall Gala Readings - Part OnePart One of the readings at PEN Canada's annual fall gala benefit held on Friday, October 20 at the University of Toronto. It featured Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. Also appearing will be Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) along with acclaimed Canadian writers Miriam Toews, Wayson Choy and MG Vassanji. The host is writer and actor Ann-Marie McDonald. The PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize was presented to Vancouver Sun journalist Kim Bolan.2006-11-021h 13
International Lawrence Durrell Society PodcastsGifford "Not translate, but transplant"Gifford, James. "'Not translate, but transplant' a Tower of Babel: Metaphoric (Dis)Continuities Between Cavafy, Eliot, Durrell, & Vassanji." Fourth Annual International Translation Day Conference. The Erotics of Translation. University of Alberta & the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta. Edmonton, AB. 30 September, 2006.2006-09-3036 min