Capture the World
Capture the World was a workshop on non-fiction writing conducted by naturalist Pranay Lal. It aimed to help participants get started with their writing and learn how to deliver clear, well-structured narrative prose. Through the session, Pranay recommended important approaches to writing such as counterfactual and critical thinking and spoke about how they are employed in his book ‘Indica’. Participants then attempted to write a story on the theme of water using these rules.
About the Writer
Pranay Lal is a biochemist by training and works for a non-profit organisation on public health. He has been a caricaturist for newspapers, an animator for an advertising agency and an environmental campaigner. His first book, Indica-A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent was published by Allen Lane in December 2016 which won the best non-fiction debut award at the Tata Lit Fest in Mumbai in 2017, the best book award at the Delhi Book Fair 2017, and was named among the top 10 memorable books of the year by Amazon and The Hindu’s non-fiction list of 2017. Right now he is working on two books Malabarica: A Deep Natural History of the Malabar and The Cretaceous: The Golden Age of Dinosaurs.
Connected Exhibit and Programmes
Water on the Red Planet by Rama Govindrajan and Anil Menon - a speculative fiction workshop imagining possibility of water on Mars
Good Books with Arupjyoti Saikia - a book reading and discussion on the non-fiction book the Unquiet River Brahmaputra