Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses | Aarathi Prasad in conversation with William Dalrymple

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses | Aarathi Prasad in conversation with William Dalrymple | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024

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Silk, prized for its lightness, luminosity and beauty, is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. Writer and broadcaster Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the story of the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals, from the moths of China, Indonesia and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar and the molluscs of the Mediterranean. In conversation with the festival's co-director, historian and author William Dalrymple.

Aarathi Prasad is the author of 3 books including Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses, and In The Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine. She is National Geographic’s Regional Manager for Europe and Western Asia and an Honorary Research Fellow in Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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