Oxford Bookstore Connaught Place hosted
‘What’s a conversation without OUR voice(s), without YOUR voices(s)?’
Ninth in the Oxford Bookstore- Zubaan series of Critical Conversations
In the run-up to the Delhi Queer Pride march, Zubaan Booksm Nigah and Oxford Bookstore invited the Delhi queer community to turn the music over to them, to narrate their stories. There were no themes and no rules, just a safe space, and the critical element of queer voices.
Oxford Bookstore Connaught Place invited the prepared and the extempore, the poems that rhyme and the ones that don’t, the song, the one-act play, the rant, the love letter, the knock-knock jokes, bad puns and good ones- bring anything you’re wearing on your sleeve, anything you want to share in any language and form on the ninth in the Oxford Bookstore- Zubaan series of Critical Conversations, ‘What’s a conversation without OUR voice(s), without YOUR voices(s)?’ on 25th November, 2014.
Delhi Queer Pride march is a parade for diversity, acceptance, solidarity and resistance. It is held annually by the Delhi LGBT community every November since 2007. This year the Delhi Queer Pride Parade is on November 30th, Sunday at 3.00pm onwards. The queer pride is a yearly festival to honour and celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and their supporters. The parade will start from Barakhamba road- Tolstoy Marg to Jantar Mantar.
About Zubaan
Zubaan is an independent feminist publishing house based in New Delhi with a strong academic and general list. It was set up as an imprint of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, and carries forward Kali’s tradition of publishing world quality books to high editorial and production standards. Zubaan means tongue, voice, language, speech in Hindustani. Zubaan is a non-profit publisher, working in the areas of the humanities, social sciences, as well as in fiction, general non-fiction, and books for children and young adults under its Young Zubaan imprint.
About Nigah
Nigah is a queer collective based in Delhi which stands for a politics that values equality and justice as its core. We believe that it is impossible to be queer by circumscribing our politics to LGBT rights alone, without turning our gaze to the wider world that impacts us.
About Oxford Bookstore
Established in 1919 Oxford Bookstore is the best equipped ‘base-camp’ for journeys of the mind offering its customers the widest range of outstanding titles and consistently courteous and informed service for close to a century. Today, with more than 30 stores in India, India’s first dedicated Children’s bookstore, Oxford Junior, India’s first of its kind tea boutique, Cha Bar, India’s only literary festival created by a bookstore, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Oxford Bookstore offers booklovers access to the very best in publishing enhanced by a variety of events which salute books, visual & performing arts and celebrate the word. Oxford Bookstore measures its success by the smiles on millions of happy customers that the brand has served over the last 9 decades. There are a few treats as sumptuous as a visit to Oxford Bookstore in India. Each time you walk into our iconic store in Calcutta where the brand started in 1919, its charm leaves you wanting for more. Our fleet of 200 happy to help expert booksellers and informed hosts work day and night to bring to customers world class reading experience be it through our books or our fine teas and live by the brand’s motto – Much more than a bookstore – at every Bookstore, be it Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Shillong, Silliguri, Guwahati or Goa. In December 2012 Oxford Bookstore took a chapter from its growth story in India by launching, Katakali, its first overseas bookstore in the luxurious Taj Palace Hotel at the foothills of the Atlas Mountains in the exclusive palm-filled oasis of the Palmeraie, Marakkech. In April 2013, with the opening of its most architecturally crafted retail store in a stunning new destination in Delhi’s historic centre, Connaught Place, Oxford Bookstore carved out yet another incredible space for quiet browsing, reading and contemplation. Its growth story continues.