Programs
Book Launch: The Power Plant – Fragments in Time
The desire of modernity for an equitable future through technology lies in ruins. Climate change and extinctions have become the debris of progress. This new book, a diary, and a photo document of a closed coal-fired power plant, which was commissioned in the late fifties in newly independent India (along with other mega technology projects) is testimony to a promise unkept. Coal, as a culprit, however, was also where childhood memories lay, in smoke-filled chullas and local coal depots. Intertwined experiences blur the boundaries of a polemic other, and become an inquiry into a complex and entangled life. The power plant resonated with the “sounds of another stillness.”
Ravi Agarwal in conversation with Damian Christinger and Rukminee Guha-Thakurta
Date: 19 December 2023
Time: 12 PM - 1 PM
Ravi Agarwal in conversation with Damian Christinger and Rukminee Guha-Thakurta
