All The Things I Do
“I don’t dream about my parents when I’m in Bangalore”, Vijay quips. He often dreams about them in so many other places but seems to be at peace when in Bangalore. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Vijay Seshadri mulled over the …
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Ballot Box- Polls 2014 and their message
-Melanie P. Kumar
A subject like politics and the ballot-box is guaranteed to attract attention and this is evident from the crowd thronging, “Samskara,” to hear four heavy-weight journalists, including the Moderator, Madhu Trehan. The audience keeps lapping up every …
How to Write For a Young Audience
Ranjani Rengarajan, the author of My Lyf Misspelt, provided her suggestions about how to impress the youngsters of the current generation with your writing.
Ranjani put out point by point guidelines in her speech that would inspire to write better.…
Scandals from Mythology
Anuja Chandramouli, a young best selling author and new age classist, spoke excitedly about her highly acclaimed novels, different perceptions of mythology and created waves with her opinion around the hall.
Q: Why mythology?
A: Right from childhood, I loved …
Silence – The Trolls are in Session
Women have always been easy subjects of harassment but the tragic death of Gauri Lankesh has sent us a very important message and it becomes very crucial to discuss the perils of being a woman journalist. The Bangalore literature festival …
Tell me a Long, Long Story
Whenever translator Ms.Mini Krishnan selects a story for her book, she thinks about all the teachers and the children who may read it and discuss it. But this is not the only driving force for her to translate novellas.
Sitting …
Tere Ishq Mein: Looking for the Divine in Music
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 …
The Business of News: Has the media sold its soul?
-Melanie P. Kumar
The Moderator, for this session is T.M. Veeraraghav from the “Hindu,” who at some point places a disclaimer that he is here in his personal capacity. This is because of the topic and the presence of forthright …
The Snake and the Lotus: On Graphic Novels
Human excesses, overdependence on machines, a dark vivid world in an alternate time, place, and universe, an uninhibited glimpse into what our futures can look like.
This is the world of Halahala, created by a Bangalore based visual graphic artist, …
The Untold Flipkart Story
Business journalist Mihir Dalal, when asked why did he choose to write about Flipkart, said, he had been writing on startups and internet companies since 2014. Flipkart has been the main subject of his coverage. It was also by far …
Voyage of Words – Translators Set Sail
Mini Krishnan, a well-known publisher, drove the session with Kannan Sundaram, a publisher in Tamil and MS Asha Devi and Subhashree Krishnaswamy, prominent literary translators to emphasize the dynamics and challenges of the literary translation, an art that often goes …
சாதியும் நானும் – Caste and I
“Caste haunts you in the food that you eat. It might offer a moment of solace through community support. It might even offer you a god but there are more disadvantages to it”, says Ambai (C.S.Lakshmi) who has translated the …