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DESCRIPTION:Utpal Sandesara (WCFIA Undergraduate Associate, 2007–08) and Tom Wooten (Harvard '08) will discuss their new book <em>No One Had a Tongue to Speak</em>.  The book is a narrative nonfiction account of the 1979 Machhu dam disaster, a flash flood that killed as many as 25,000 people in Gujarat State, India. The authors will discuss the flood itself; their personal connections to the story; and their research, which involved photographing a number of top-secret documents and a face-to-face meeting with a twice-convicted murderer. Paul Farmer called the book "Beautifully written...suspenseful, elegiac, and haunting," and Suketu Mehta described it as "One of the most important books written about India in recent years." See <a href="http://www.thefloodbook.com" target="_blank">www.thefloodbook.com</a> for more details. <h3>Speakers:</h3><p><strong>Utpal Sandesara</strong>, <em>Author; former WCFIA Undergraduate Associate, 2007–08.</em></p><p><strong>Tom Wooten</strong>, <em>Author.</em></p>
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