The Naale Baa had seen a great deal of vibrancy in all its discussions, by now. With Girish Karnad and Arundhati Nag’s vivid Hampi recollections, a literary panel decoding women in conflict zones or a high fired debate on the …
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 …
Decriminalization of homosexuality by the Supreme Court of the country is just the beginning of the battle. The panel discussion on Section 377 on the second day of the literature festival was one of the most interactive sessions of all. …
Alex Travelli who was moderating the discussion with Prasenjit Basu asked what made him bring Asia together, where people see every country as different. Prasenjit said he lived in East Asia for 25 years and then spent 5 years in …
The first day of Bengaluru Literature Festival began with an exuberant session with Aatish Taseer, an author with considerable relations with the Indian subcontinent. He is the son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan …
Building Blocks from Life: On Narrative Non-Fiction
Bachi Karkaria, Manu Pillai, Sandeep Unnithan, Shoba Narayan with VK Karthika
The ‘Naale Baa’ venue of the Bangalore Literature Festival 2018 hosted writers of contrasting styles and perspectives on non-fiction writing. On panel …
Raghava KK is a contemporary artist living and working in New York and India. His wife Nethra is a musician. Krithi Karanth is a Conservation Biologist based in Bangalore, India. They were addressing the audience in the Bangalore Literature festival …
Elegance personified. That is Sarika. An actor that blossomed in front of the camera, Sarika literally grew up on movie sets. Starting her journey from Hamraaz as a child artist, she quickly captured the heart of the masses. The session …
Ten years. That is how long Chitra Subramaniam worked on the Bofors scandal, from Geneva in Switzerland. She was 29 and pregnant when she began her investigation. She continued to follow the paper trail and money trail to their end, …
If you love to take a stroll around cities, neighbourhoods and colonies, chances are you have closely tried to establish a relationship with public spaces that cities have to offer. We all, in fact, do share a known/ unknown relationship …
While you are stuck in namma city’s inching traffic and wondering when you can afford your own private jet or even better evolve to develop wings of your own, here was a session that transported back to the colonial times …
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 …
This session was about the recent Kannada play Rakshasa Tangidi by the very eminent Kannada personality and playwright Girish Karnad who in conversation with Deepa Ganesh revealed the intricacies of the ruins of Hampi and the battle of Vijayanagara. Karnad …
On the second day of the Bangalore Literature Festival, the audience got to witness an exciting discussion of the book ‘Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing The World’. The author of the book, Snigdha Poonam who is National Affairs Writer …
As the evening set in, the bards, visionaries and activists came out of their hibernation in Bangalore Literature Festival. Maybe it was the general air of intoxication around- a sense of utopia, an acute awareness of affecting the possibilities or …
The panel of ladies: Manjima Bhattacharya author of ‘Mannequin-Working women in India’s glamour industry’. Shvetha Jaishankar, former beauty pageant titleholder of Femina Miss India, entrepreneur, now the author of ‘Gorgeous- Eat well, Look great’ along with Susan Thomas discussed fashion …
The feminist rani is not a phrase simply coined to indulge the Indian audiences. As the co-author of the book named the same, Shaili Chopra says, “the English- Hindi word was constructed to break the notion that feminism is an …
‘Genes & Destiny: Are We Doomed to Be’ was a session filled with information about the science of genetics, the sociopolitical implications of the improvements in the field, and the effect it would have on the entire world. The session …
The history that we come from is rich, and often has a sense of mystique around it. This is especially so when places like Hampi fall into the list. The city in ruins, and UNESCO World Heritage site, Hampi is …
David Frawley spoke on ‘How I Became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma’ at the creatively named venue ‘Adjust Maadi’. Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is a Vedic teacher and Hindu Acharya. He is the author of fifty …
