Bangalore Literature Festival | Where Words Matter | 15th Edition | 2026

Videos

Videos from Bangalore Literature Festival 2025.

Photos

Photos from Bangalore Literature Festival 2025.

Festival Dispatches

Annotations from the Aisles: Festival Dispatches from 2025.

Speakers See all speakers

Amish Tripathi

Banu Mushtaq

Chandrashekhar Khare

Chetan Bhagat

Clare Mackintosh

GN Devy

Jeet Thayil

Julie Janson

K Ullas Karanth

Karen Hao

Miglė Anušauskaitė

Santosh Desai

Shashi Tharoor

Shobhaa De

Sudha Murty

Vir Das

Performances

Music performances at the Festival

AG-BLF Prize

Atta Galatta and Bangalore Literature Festival’s Annual Book Prize

Partners

14th Edition Festival Partners

Venue

Freedom Park, the venue for the Festival

About

The Bangalore Literature Festival fêtes reading and writing. Bookworms and bibliophiles are invited to bask in the winter sun in the Garden City of India and meet writers from everywhere — local, national and international — as this festival brings the world to ‘Namma Bengaluru’. The Festival celebrates the creative spirit and commemorates the literary diversity Bengaluru offers, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world of literature within and outside India.