Navtej Sarna

18th October 2020 : 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

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Koh-i-Noor: the Mountain of Light.

Navtej Sarna’s passionate biography, The Exile, is a poignant novel about Maharaja Duleep Singh, the younger son of the great Maharaja Ranjeet Singh of Punjab, who signed away the Kohinoor to Queen Victoria when he was only 11. In this session, he presents the riveting story of the Kohinoor, the Mountain of Light.

Navtej Sarna is the author of the novels The Exile and We Weren’t Lovers Like That, the short story collection Winter Evenings, non-fiction works The Book of Nanak, Second Thoughts and Indians at Herod’s Gate, as well as two translations, Zafarnama and Savage Harvest. A professional diplomat since 1980, he has served as High Commissioner of India to the UK and Ambassador to Israel. He was India’s Ambassador to the United States till December 2018.

Asia Society Hong Kong Center
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