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2012

Schedule

DATETIMEVENUEEVENT DETAILS

Pre-events

22.11.2012
Thursday		06:00 PMAlliance de Francaise, BangaloreBLF in association with RainLight publishers and Alliance de Francaise Bangalore invite you to the launch of Smt Shashi Deshpande’s latest novella ‘If I Die today’. The launch will be followed by a discussion on Crime Fiction between Smt Shashi Deshpande, Smt Usha K.R. and Smt Shinie Antony
29.11.2012
Thursday		TBDParikrama Foundation, SahakarnagarBLF in partnership with the Max Mueller Bhavan Children’s workshop at Parikrama Foundation by German author and children’s illustrator Ms. Nadia Budde.
30.11.2012
Friday		06:00 PMBangalore International Centre, Domlur II Stage.BLF in association with Rupa publications and Bangalore International Centre invite you to the launch of Amandeep Sandhu’s “Roll of Honour” by Mr. Dr. Uday Balakrishnan.
06.12.2012
Thursday		06:00 PMAlliance de FrancaiseBLF in association with Westland publishers and Alliance de Francaise Bangalore invite you to the launch of John D Balian’s book ‘Gray Wolves and White Doves’ at the Alliance de Francaise by Ambassador C V Ranganathan, Mr Harish Bijoor and Smt Jahnavi Barua.

Festival

Friday | December 7, 2012 | Front Lawns, Jayamahal Palace

Friday | December 7, 20124:30 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceInauguration and launch of Beantown - BLF Literary Journal
Friday | December 7, 20125:30 – 6:30 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceBLF Inaugural Plenary: "Have you seen the Soul?" – The Craft Of Poetry;
Two Friends In Conversation: Gulzar and Pavan Varma
Friday | December 7, 20126:30 – 7:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 1- Crossfire with Chetan Bhagat
Friday | December 7, 20127:15 – 9:00 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal Palace"Strings Attached" - Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh on the Veena and Vidwan R. Kumaresh on the Violin
Evening anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash

Saturday | December 8, 2012 | Front Lawns, Jayamahal Palace

Saturday | December 8, 20129:30 – 10:30 AMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 1 - Srujana Sheelathe: Creativity in Writing
Baraguru Ramachandrappa, Chandrashekhara Kamabara, K. S. Nissar Ahmed, U R Ananthamurthy and Vaidehi | Moderator: Manu Chakravarthy
Saturday | December 8, 201210:30 – 11:30 AMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 2 - "Subah subah ek khwaab ki dastak par"
Gulzar in conversation with Sanjana Roychoudhury
Saturday | December 8, 201211:30 – 12:30 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 3 - Chronicling Lives: Biographies and MemoirsLaunch of "Durbar" by Tavleen Singh followed by discussion
Ajoy Bose, Bhawana Somaaya, Tavleen Singh and Vikram Sampath | Moderator: Sunil Sethi
Saturday | December 8, 20121:15 – 2:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 4 - The Business of Books
Caroline Newbury, Gautam Padmanabhan, Karthika V.K., Prakash Kambathalli and Sanjana Roy Choudhury | Moderator: Annie Chandy
Saturday | December 8, 20122:15 – 3:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 5 - Ferment in West Asia
Akbar Mirza Khaleeli, I. P. Khosla and John D. Balian
Moderator: C. V. Ranganathan
Saturday | December 8, 20123:15 – 4:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 6 - Playing the Write Game
Launch of Boria Majumdar’s "Cooking on the Run: an average Indian man’s encounters with food"
Ashwini Nachappa, Shehan Karunatilaka, Vedam Jaishankar, Vinod Naidu
Moderator: Boria Majumdar
Saturday | December 8, 20124:15 – 5:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 7 - Experience, Memory and Stories
Anita Nair, Biman Nath, Kavery Nambisan and Manju Kapur | Moderator: Usha K. R.
Saturday | December 8, 20125:15 – 6:00 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 8 - Literature in the Twitter Era
Harish Bijoor and Sudheendra Kulkarni
Moderator: K. Vaitheeswaran
Saturday | December 8, 20126:00 – 7:00 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 9 - The World in Verse
Jayant Kaikini, Khaleelur Rehman, Sampurna Chattarji and Shaista Yousuf | Moderator: Mamta Sagar
Saturday | December 8, 20127:15 – 9:00 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceYakshagana - "Vali Moksha" by Keremane Shivananda Hegde Troupe

Sunday | December 9, 2012 | Front Lawns, Jayamahal Palace

Sunday | December 9, 20129:30 – 10:30 AMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 1 - Hosa Ale: New Waves in Kannada Literature
Banu Mushtaq, Jayant Kaikini, Kum Vee Bhadrappa and Mamta Sagar | Moderator: Prakash Belawadi
Sunday | December 9, 201210:30 – 11:30 AMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 2 - Is Fiction losing its Magic?
Jahnavi Barua, Jaishree Misra, Shashi Deshpande and Tarquin Hall | Moderator: Sunil Sethi
Sunday | December 9, 201211:30 – 12:30 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 3 - Stage of Life: Mahesh Dattani in conversation with Ashish Sen
Sunday | December 9, 20121:30 – 2:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 4 - Tete-a-tete with Amish Tripathi | Moderator: Deepthi Talwar
Sunday | December 9, 20122:15 – 3:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 5 - Hark the New Brigade!
Aroon Raman, Shefalee Vasudev, Sudeep Nagarkar, Vikrant Dutta and Yasmeen Premji | Moderator: Shoba Narayan
Sunday | December 9, 20123:15 – 4:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 6 - Bangalore/Bengaluru: Multiple City?
Prakash Belawadi, Ramya, Shobhaa De, T. V. Mohandas Pai and U R Ananthamurthy | Moderator: V Ravichandar
Sunday | December 9, 20124:15 – 5:15 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 7 - Scripting India: Launch of "Tales from Shining and Sinking India" by Akash Banerjee and "India Becoming" by Akash Kapur followed by discussion
Akash Banerjee, Akash Kapur, Nandan Nilekani, Sanjeev Sanyal and Sir Mark Tully | Moderator: Pavan Varma
Sunday | December 9, 20125:15 – 6:00 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 8 - Launch of 'Sethji' by Shobhaa De followed by Shobhaa De in conversation with Sunil Sethi
Sunday | December 9, 20126:00 – 6:45 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceSession 9 - Bangarada Manushya: Bangalore Literature Festival tribute to Dr. Rajkumar
Puneeth Rajkumar and Maya Chandra in conversation with Vasanthi Hariprakash
Short screening of "Dr. Rajkumar - An Analysis of the Phenomenon"
Sunday | December 9, 20126:45 PMFront Lawns, Jayamahal PalaceClosing

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