While describing the work of Ananda Teltumbde, Prof. Chandan Gowda start the session by explaining the work of the author as analytical, it is always a relational analysis. Teltumbde writes about caste explicitly but his style is different. He engages …
Weird serendipity. That is how Sophie Hannah got the approval from the Christie family and began writing Poirot novels. Sophie’s maverick literary agent sowed these ideas into the mind of a HarperCollins editor, who immediately rejected the idea. A thorough …
Author of recently published Gandhi: The Years that Changed the world, from cricket to history to political science, he has worn all kinds of hat. In this session, Ramachandra Guha premiered about a topic with which he has not engaged …
Sudha Gopalakrishnan who is a co-founder of sahapedia.org and a former founder director (2003-07) at National Mission for Manuscripts, started the session by speaking about the manuscript mission and said, at the manuscript mission, it was an arduous task to …
This September, the Supreme Court of India passed a historic judgement of decriminalizing homosexual relationships between consenting individuals. It struck down on the IPC section 377 after a 17-year long legal battle. The Bangalore Literature Festival had Anjali Gopalan who …
Ponnappa and Ravi Shankar, the renowned cartoon artists of our country took out all their mind out and sketched out artistically the current political and cultural stature. As Ponnappa quotes “ I never take up religion , that is the …
The session Aryavarta Chronicles allowed the audience to have a discussion with Krishna Udayasankar, the author of The Aryavarta Chronicles (Govinda, Kaurava and Kurukshetra), a bestselling series of mytho-historical novels that have been acquired by Ms Sonam Kapoor. Her novel, …
In a short and crisp session on ‘The Descent of Man’ at the ‘Naale Baa’ venue, poet, essayist, and critic Vijay Seshadri was in conversation with author Ranjit Hoskote. The dialogue hovered over and went into the contours of poetry …
If you are a person with a keen interest in political business then these books might fill your belly with a lot of interesting anecdotes. The world of politics not lying far away from business and eventually flowing into the …
The session ‘Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years’ was a fun and informative discussion which provided the audience with an amalgam of Science Fiction literature and Futurism. The session was graced by the presence of Bruce Sterling, a science …
Short stories. They’re etched in the memories of so many of us who grew up on them. Often confined to a particular region or theme, the exposure could have been limited. The editor of The Best Asian Short Stories, Monideepa …
When the sun retires after a blazing day, and the temperature drops, nothing else can make it more magical than soulful music from the accomplished Rekha Bharadwaj, and the mystical acoustic guitar player Mayukh Sarkar. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, the …
On the velvet red couch were seated the wildlife couple, Romulus Whitaker and Janaki Lenin getting candid with the audience of diverse cultures united under the roof of literature, discussing their journey with reptiles.
Romulus is very popularly known as …
What happens when five young writers come together on one platform and through their literary works connect with the idea of youth, restlessness, and ambition? This was a pure collaboration of ideas where each author explored the theme in context …
‘India is the only country that elevated Kama to a goal of life and had a god for desires”, quipped Gurcharan Das who was discussing about his latest book ‘Kama: A Riddle of Desire’. The book is the third in …
When one singular social pursuit has taken you to writing, you have most probably taken a journey similar to Sujata Parashar’s. Her years of working with women in red light areas, strong social activism on the front of female empowerment, …
After many years, the political landscape in Pakistan looks upbeat. Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister promised a new Pakistan during the campaigns. However, according to Farzana Shaikh, who is a well-known commentator on Pakistan for the international media, it may …
The conversation between the two accomplished writers started with a quote from a colleague when Meera was publishing her first novel; the colleague remarked that they do not read novels written by women since they begin in the kitchen, and …
The speaker for the session was Shoba Narayan who initially shared that her dream was to become a standup comedian. The speech was set around the Indian mythological spiritual animal: Cow; cow being a part of Indian mythology.
The speaker …
Urban Folk Project as a Youth Collective is trying to revive Kannada Folk Art, stories which have been transferred orally from generations to generations and has been confirmed as ‘classic’ but what Shilpa and Aditya Kothakota are sure about is …
