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March, 2010

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Event:

Pakistani Author at Loomis Chaffee

Date:

March 24th, 2010.

Time:

7:00 PM

Location:

Gilchrist Auditorium, Clarke Science Center

Contact:

Mary Forrester 860.687.6160

Pakistani Author to Speak at Loomis Chaffee

Photo: Ali Sethi, author of The Wish Maker

Journalist Ali Sethi, the author of The Wish Maker, a debut book that uses his family's experiences with the political turmoil and creeping Islamization in Pakistan during the 1990s, will present a lecture at The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor at 7 p.m. on March 24. The lecture is free and open to the public. The presentation will take place in Gilchrist Auditorium, located in the Clark Center for Science and Mathematics.

Ali Sethi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1984. "I grew up watching a lot of American television," he says. "I had American magazines and books, alongside a British colonial education, plus the Urdu and Punjabi cultures of my family. I grew up inhabiting many people's cultures simultaneously." He attended Aitchison College in Lahore, a school founded by the British for the sons of the aristocracy, but which now enrolls students from diverse backgrounds and all parts of Pakistan. A trained vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition, he originally intended to be a musician.

Sethi was an indifferent student in his younger years, but resolved to excel in high school and won admission to Harvard University, where he was the only Pakistani in his class. He threw himself into literature and creative writing, taking courses with the novelists Zadie Smith and Amitav Ghosh as well as the critic James Wood. In Ghosh's course, Sethi wrote a short story that became the basis for The Wish Maker. "It was nostalgia that led me to write it," Sethi says. "I was thinking of home on a cool March night in Massachusetts, and the songs and sights all came rushing back."

Sethi is the son of newspaper publisher Jugnu Mohsin and editor Najam Sethi, founders of the influential Pakistani newspaper The Friday Times. As pro-democracy journalists and activists, Sethi's parents were constant targets of government surveillance during his youth and frequently ran afoul of the authorities. Sethi has contributed to The Nation and the op-ed page of The New York Times, for which he has written recently about the rapidly shifting political situation in Pakistan. He currently lives in Lahore.

For directions to the school, visit www.loomischaffee.org/visitors and for more information about the event, please contact Mary Forrester at 860.687.6160; mary_forrester@loomis.org.

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