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Red River: Songs and Stories of Refuge

SOAS Concert Series with Somnath Batabyal and Friends

Location

SOAS

University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Sq , WC1B 5DQ

Times

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

19:30 – 21:45

Ticket Price

£20/£12/£6

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A performance of Indian and Bangladeshi music and readings which celebrate the UK release of an extraordinary new novel set in Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh.

Indian author Somnath Batabyal will collaborate with Sahana Bajpaie, Sohini Alam and others create a new performance featuring readings from Batabyal's novel Red River, and new arrangements of music from the Northeast of India and Bangladesh, where the novel is set.

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