Day 1
Friday | September 27, 2013
| TIME | MYSORE PARK | LAWN BAGH | MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children |
| 10:00 – 11.30 | Dollukunita – Folk Performance of Karnataka BLF 2013 Opening by Chandrashekhara Kambara, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Ramakant Rath, Ramachandra Guha, Christoph Bertrams & Vikram Sampath Launch of the Festival edition of Beantown Session anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash | ||
| 11.30 – 12.30 | HeLatthena kELa: Kambararondhige Sahithya Sallaapa Dr Chandrashekhara Kambara in conversation with C. Naganna | Vision for India Baijayant “Jay” Panda, Lt. Gen. Ramesh Halagali & T V Mohandas Pai Moderator: Veeraraghav T M | Slam Poetry Workshop with Bas Böttcher |
| 12.30 – 1:30 | A Celebration of Love & Life – An intimate note to the sincere seeker Writing on Spirituality with H.H.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living | Slam Poetry Workshop with Bas Böttcher | |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | The Making of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: Has Indian cinema finally woken up to bio-pics? Farhan Akhtar, Prasoon Joshi and Rakeysh Mehra in conversation with Bhawana Somaaya Launch of Bhawana Somaaya’s ‘Talking Cinema’ | ||
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Talking Couture – Chronicling Fashion Wendell Rodricks in conversation with Prasad Bidappa | Partners in Crime and Fantasy Anita Nair, Madhulika Liddle and Nilanjana Roy Moderator: Sumeet Shetty | Fantasy A workshop with Janaki Murali |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Is Bhasha being subsumed by English? Ashok Vajpeyi, U R Ananthamurthy, Gulzar and Ramakant Rath Moderator: K. Satchidanandan Launch of Gulzar’s ‘Hindi for Heart’ | Traversing geographies, poetically Athena Kashyap, Vibha Rani, Meena Kandasamy and Aurélia Lassaque Moderator: Shikha Malviya | Kathalaya presents Japanese Folklore |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Launch of Kishwar Desai’s ‘The Sea of Innocence’Endangered Gender? Gita Aravamudan, Kishwar Desai and Shobhaa De Moderator: Vasanthi Hariprakash | Co-existence of Commercial and Literary Writing in India – Myth or Reality? David Davidar and Kapish Mehra with Nilanjana Roy | Kathalaya presents Japanese Folklore |
| 6:00 – 7:00 | William Dalrymple Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi (1707-1857) | ||
| 7:00 – 9:00 | Carnatic Violin Duet by Mysore Brothers – Dr. Manjunath & Shri Nagaraj and party A Bangalore International Arts Festival presentation | ||
| NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes. |
Day 2
Saturday | September 28, 2013
| TIME | MYSORE PARK | LAWN BAGH | MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children |
| 10:00 – 11.00 | Aao phir nazm kahein with Gulzar and Prasoon Joshi Launch of Gulzar’s ‘I Swallowed The Moon’ | Literature Quiz Quizmasters: Nexus Consulting (Venky, Vivek and Navin) For students – Classes 5 to 10 | |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Literati, Marginalia et al. – The Anatomy of Literature Festivals William Dalrymple, Anjum Katyal and Nirmala Lakshman Moderator: Vikram Sampath | NaanEruva ettharake neenEra balleya? Kannada Sahithyada Chaturmukharu Works of Great Masters of Kannada Literature Narahalli Balasubrahmanya, Dr. K S Bhagavan, Dr. B Viveka Rai and Giraddi Govindaraju Moderator: Vikram Visaji | Literature Quiz Quizmasters: Nexus Consulting (Venky, Vivek and Navin) For students – Classes 5 to 10 |
| 12.00 – 1:00 | From Screen to Page: Writing on Indian Cinema Baradwaj Rangan, Sidharth Bhatia, M. K. Raghavendra and Nasreen Munni Kabir Moderator: Sharmistha Gooptu | The Ashwin Key: Writing on Mythology Ashwin Sanghi in conversation with Deepthi Talwar | Literature Quiz Quizmasters: Nexus Consulting (Venky, Vivek and Navin)For students – Classes 5 to 10 |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Launch of Babar Ayaz’s ‘What’s wrong with Pakistan? ’The South Asian Voice: Writing for Ourselves Kanak Dixit, Farah Ghuznavi, Ashok Ferry, Babar Ayaz and Mira Hashmi Moderator: Laxmi Murthy A HIMĀL Southasian presentation | City Lights: On Urban writing Usha K. R., Nirmala Lakshman, Kishwar Desai, Anita Nair Moderator: Lavanya Sankaran | Children’s Session with Gulzar & Prasoon Joshi Launch of ‘Potli Baba Ki Kahani – Ali Baba Aur Chaalis Chor’ by Gulzar A Scholastic India presentation |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Solla sobagu: AaDu nuDiya sahithya sogaDu: Oral literary languages of Karnataka – Tulu, Kodava, Konkani and Beary B. M. Hanif, Dr. Chinnappa Gowda, Dr. Rekha Vasanth and Prof. Edwin J. F. D’souza Moderator: Dr. B. Viveka Rai Samanvay: IHC Indian Languages Festival presentation | The Aural and the Visual: Writing on the Performing Arts Lakshmi Viswanathan, Anjum Katyal, Nasreen Munni Kabir and Vikram Sampath Moderator: Madhu Nataraj | Bookalore presents Sakkat Story Safari and The Majaa-ful Mystery Tour |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | The Novel and the People: Is Indian Fiction Moving Away from Indian Reality? Govind Mishra, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Ashoka Mitran and Nabaneeta Dev Sen Moderator: K. Satchidanandan A Central Sahitya Akademi presentation | Devabhasha to Lokabhasha: Sanskrit, then and now C M Krishnasastry, Prof. Mallepuram G Venkatesh, Prof. M. B. Srinidhi and Dr. Satyanarayana Sastry Moderator: Prof. B. Mahadevan A Samskrita Bharathi and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan presentation | Bookalore presents Sakkat Story Safari and The Majaa-ful Mystery Tour |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Launch of Shashi Deshpande’s ‘Shadow Play’ Are we becoming a Bestseller generation? Shashi Deshpande, Shobhaa De, Ashwin Sanghi and Ian Jack Moderator: Karthika V. K. | Building bridges: Not lost in Translation Saskya Jain, Ashok Vajpeyi, Bhawana Somaaya and Dr. C. N. Ramachandran Moderator: Keerti Ramachandra | Bookalore presents Sakkat Story Safari and The Majaa-ful Mystery Tour |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Is economic development a garb for hard Right politics?: The Gujarat Model Madhu Kishwar, Kingshuk Nag, Sidharth Bhatia and Hartosh Singh Bal Moderator: Veeraraghav TM Launch of Hartosh Singh Bal’s ‘Waters Close Over Us – A Journey Along the Narmada’ | Launch of Vikas Singh’s ‘The Big Fix’ Launch of Boria Majumdar’s‘Sporting Times’Is Corruption a way of life in Indian Sport? Vikas Singh, Hakimuddin Habibulla, Reeth Abraham Moderator: Boria Majumdar | |
| 6:00 – 7:00 | Ramachandra Guha Is History literature or social science? | ||
| 7:30 – 8:45 | Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia in concert, accompanied by Subhankar Banerjee | ||
| NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes. |
Day 3
Sunday | September 29, 2013
| TIME | MYSORE PARK | LAWN BAGH | MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children |
| 10:00 – 11.00 | Thoughts that Breathe, Words that Burn: A morning of poetry Ashok Vajpeyi, K. Satchidanandan and Nabanita Dev Sen Moderator: Mamta Sagar | Launch of Tilman Rammstedt’s ‘The Emperor of China – Der Kaiser von China’International Ink: Getting published in Europe Ian Jack, Tilman Rammstedt and Aurélia Lassaque Moderator: Karthika V. K. | Write Better Workshop for Young Writers with Vivek Krishnaswamy (Ages 9 to 15) |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Mera kuchh saman, tumhare paas pada hai Gulzar in conversation with Bhawana Somaaya | The Big Bada Bang with a really LOOooOONGGG Book by Pratham Books | |
| 12.00 – 1:00 | Naadhadha Nadiyondhu naDedhaanga: Kavi Samaya Celebrating Kannada poetryK. Nisar Ahmed, H. S. Venkatesh Murthy and Siddalingaiah Moderator: Asha Devi | Playwrights at Work Dharmakirti Sumant, Vibha Rani, Swar Thounaojam and Christopher Kloebel Moderator: Evan Hastings | Get buzzy with a ghostly performance on stage! by Pratham Books |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Kannada mooladha maruvyaakhyaana: The history & antiquity of Kannada Dr. Venkatachala Shastry, Dr. M. M. Kalburgi and Dr. Padekal Vishnu Bhat Moderator: Dr. Shrinivas Murthy | Rewriting the Rules of Romance and Reminiscence Satyajit Sarna, Nighat Gandhi, Nilanjan Choudhury and Shoba Narayan Moderator: Nandita Bose | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | India from the Outside Ian Jack in conversation with Sunil Sethi | The First Book Club Varun Agarwal, Aditya Mukherjee, Lavanya Sankaran, Preeti Shenoy Moderator: Vani Mahesh | Amar Chitra Katha presents Brave Superheroes and Frightening Monsters |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Voices of India: Young Literateurs of Bhasha Arindam Borkataki, Dharmakirti Sumant, Vempalli Gangadhara and Farooq Shaheen Moderator: Jayanth Kodkani A Central Sahitya Akademi Presentation | Launch of Ravi Subramanian’s ‘Bankerupt’Edge of Darkness: On Thrillers and Chillers Aroon Raman, Ravi Subramanian and Piyush Jha Moderator: Eshwar Sundaresan | Amar Chitra Katha presents Brave Superheroes and Frightening Monsters |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | World in Verse: A celebration of life through Performance Poetry Bas Böttcher, Vibha Rani and Mamta Sagar | 69 Shades of Grey: Scripting Erotica Sheba Karim, Ashok Ferry and Minal Hajratwala Moderator: Harish Bijoor | An Evening with The Storywallahs |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Sunil Sethi | In the shadow of the gun: Literature from conflict zones Farooq Shaheen, Babar Ayaz, Arindam Borkataki and Jahnavi Barua Moderator: Amandeep Sandhu | An Evening with The Storywallahs |
| 6:00 – 6:45 | All this Longing: Songs and Poetry Shabnam Virmani & Vipul Rikhi | ||
| NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes. |