Book Launch: The Power Plant – Fragments in Time by Ravi Agarwal (Serendipity Arts Festival)
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