Goethe Darbaar | Writing Millennial Relationships: Voices from India and Germany

How do millennials view and experience relationships compared to Boomers, Gen Z, or Gen Alpha? Millennials have witnessed the rise of the internet during their formative years, while other generations either grew up with it or without it entirely. This digital shift has shaped how each generation connects and forms relationships. How do authors from India and Germany characterize and describe the differences between these generations?

Join award-winning German author Leif Randt ("Allegro Pastel") and Indian journalist and author Amrita Tripathi ("The Sibius Knot," "Young Mental Health: Mindscape Series") as they explore the distinctive ways their generation navigates relationships, especially in the digital age, in a discussion with Rishi Majumder.

Day/Date: Friday, 20 September 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

Artists

© Amrita Tripathi Amrita Tripathi
Amrita Tripathi is an author, former journalist, and podcaster who writes contemporary fiction exploring urban realities and fragmented relationships. Her novels include Broken News (2010), The Sibius Knot (2015), and an upcoming release, The Other Sister (2024). She has co-authored several non-fiction books on mental health, including the Mindscape series and Life Interrupted: Understanding India’s Suicide Crisis (2022). Tripathi hosts the #SayAgain podcast, is the founder-editor of The Health Collective, and recently founded Tap In Tribe, focusing on women and leadership.

© Leif Randt Leif Randt 
Leif Randt, born in 1983 in Frankfurt/Main, gained recognition in the German-language literary scene with his utopian novels Schimmernder Dunst über CobyCounty (2011) and Planet Magnon (2015). He followed up with Allegro Pastell (2020), a love story that became a bestseller and has since been translated into 13 languages. The English edition of Allegro Pastell is set to be published by Granta Editions in London in spring 2025, with a film adaptation expected to hit German cinemas in March 2025. Randt is currently working on his fifth novel and manages the platform tegelmedia.net.

Moderator

© Rishi Majumder Rishi Majumder
Rishi Majumder is the co-founder of the creative agency Oijo and the online history project Indian History Collective. He has also been a co-producer of the global music show BalconyTV as well as a part of the team that brought it to India. He has been an editor, columnist and correspondent with various media outlets, in India and abroad, and continues to write and speak on politics, policy and culture.