Life Is Abracadabra: Book discussion with Rising Asia

An engaging book discussion with Rising Asia

An evening of engaging, enthralling, enlivening, enlightening book discussion and fun conversation, exploring real magic and synchronicity—the central theme in the book, Life Is Abracadabra, with award-winning international speaker, best-selling author, globetrotter, Baisakhi Saha and Dr. Julie Banerjee Mehta, former lecturer at University of Toronto and York University, currently guest faculty professor at Loreto College, Calcutta, along with a panel of lively, vibrant discussants at The Bengal Club in Kolkata, India on Friday, 17 November 2023. Watch the video above or scan the event QR code to learn more.

Rising Asia Journal is a scholarly publication and journal of record with a multidisciplinary orientation. It serves as a resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of Asian societies. Each volume of the journal contains interpretive essays on all aspects of Asian history, economy, diplomacy, literature, health, science, military affairs (war, peace and society or WPS) and culture. For details, visit rajraf.org.

Professor Julie Mehta holds M.A. and PhD degrees in English Literature and South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. Her PhD dissertation, “Unchaste Goddesses, Turbulent Waters: Representations of the Divine Feminine in Postcolonial South Asian Fiction,” establishes indomitable feminine power as voices of resistance against the patriarchy. Her Master’s thesis entitled “Being Gaijin and Being Female in the Sakoku Culture of Japan” explores the Japanese works by Meira Chand, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Pico Iyer. She also writes regularly for The Telegraph—the largest circulating English language newspaper in Eastern India, and did an extensive author interview & book review on Diwali 2023. Read here: Page 16, Page 17, Digital Newspaper.

Below are some stills from the event, curated and anchored by Dr. Julie Banerjee Mehta, who is also the founder of Rising Asia Literary Circle, in association with Rising Asia Journal and Rising Asia Foundation. Click to enlarge each image.

Published by Hay House and distributed by Penguin Random House, Life Is Abracadabra is available in all leading bookstores across India as well as on Amazon, Kindle, Flipkart, etc. The E-book version is also available Internationally.