Ananya Vajpeyi
Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and author of Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities, offering literary and scholarly reflections on cities, language, and memory.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 1h 16min
Ananya Vajpeyi, "Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities" (Women Unlimited Ink, 2025)
Ananya Vajpeyi, professor and author of Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities, explores 13 cities through literary and scholarly lenses. She discusses multilingual childhoods and how language shapes access to others. Conversations touch on memory, monuments, architecture and public space, gendered mobility, camps and trauma, and the persistent mood of loss and belonging.
