Day 1 - Friday | September 26, 2014
| Samskara | Suragi | Bharathipura | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00- 11.30 | Pre-Inaugural: Kamsale - Folk performance of Karnataka | Inauguration: Girish Karnad, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Chetan Bhagat, Shobhaa De, Binalakshmi Nepram & Vikram Sampath | Launch of the festival edition of Beantown - The BLF Magazine Live report | ||
| 11.30- 12.30 | Shraddhanjali: Remembering U R Ananthamurthy- Girish Karnad and S G Vasudev | Mamta Sagar (M); screening of documentary on U R Ananthamurthy by Sahitya Akademi Live report | ||
| 12:30- 1:30 | Samvaada: Chandrashekhara Kambara in conversation with C Naganna Live report | Books that go bump in the night!- On horror and suspense writing: Arnab Ray, Satyarth Nayak, Venita Coelho & Raghav Chandra | Sharath Komarraju (M) Live report | Calling all teens and tweens- Children & Young adult fiction: Paro Anand, Marie Munkara, Rohini Nilekani & Lakshmi Devnath | Andaleeb Wajid (M) Book Launch: Andaleeb Wajid's Back in Time | Lakshmi Devnath's Poorva-Magic Miracles and the Mystical Twelve Live report |
| 1:30-2:30 | From full-wives to Half-Girlfriend- the women in Chetan Bhagat's novels: Chetan Bhagat in conversation with Shinie Antony Live report | ||
| 2:30-3:30 | Does India Neglect its Eight Sisters?: Pradyot Manikya Deb Burma, Binalakshmi Nepram and Dhruba Hazarika | Neelesh Mishra (M) | Hosa Chiguru- New Voices in Kannada literature: Vasudhendra, K S Pavitra & HN Arathi | C Naganna (M) | Minority Report: Haroon Khalid, Keki Daruwala, Rakhshanda Jalil, Asma Jahangir & Nirupama Dutt | Sameer Arshad Khatlani (M) Live report |
| 3:30-4:30 | Kannada Rangabhoomi--Gathi, Sthithi: Kannada Theatre, Then & Now: H.S. Umesh, Chandrashekhara Kambara & Na Damodara Shetty | Surendranath S (M) | Can you Deny this Sunrise? -Dalit Writing and Issues of Marginalization: Dylan Coleman, Jeanine Leane, Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy & Sharankumar Limbale | Mini Krishnan (M) | Getting down to Business- Can India change its mindset?: Benedict Paramanand, Arun Maira & John Elliott | Sumit Chakraberty (M) Live report |
| 4:30-5:30 | Queen of Hearts: Rani Mukerji in conversation with Bhawana Somaaya Live report | ||
| 5:30-6:30 | Whose Language is it Anyway?: Ashok Vajpeyi, Swapan Dasgupta, Joe D' Cruz & Shobhaa De | Mrinal Pande (M) Live report | Sita-Shadow and Substance: Namita Gokhale, Samhita Arni, Arshia Sattar & Yatindra Mishra | Madhavi Mahadevan (M) Book Launch: Madhavi Mahadevan's Doppelganger Live report | ISIS- Global Terror at India's Doorstep: Hormis Tharakan, Shashi Warrier, Aditya Sondhi | Josy Joseph (M) Live report |
| 6:30-8:30 | A Carnatic classical music concert by Oscar nominated musician Bombay Jayashri Ramnath | Accompanists: KJ Dileep (Violin), Delhi Sairam (Mridangam) and Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira) | Evening anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash | ||
Day 2 - Saturday | September 27, 2014
| Samskara | Suragi | Bharathipura | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | Keeping it Brief--the Art of writing Short Stories: Anjum Hasan, Susan Visvanathan, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Usha K.R. & Saniya | Altaf Tyrewala (M) Live report | Cinemascope-Screen to Script: Bhawana Somaaya, Tisca Chopra & Madhuri Banerjee | T. P. Rajeevan (M) Live report | 10:00-10:30 | Karadi Tales with Priya Muthukumar of Storipur Live report |
| 11:00-12:00 | India: Crouching Tiger or Gasping Elephant?: Sam Miller, John Elliot, Arun Maira & R Vaidyanathan | Swapan Dasgupta (M) Live report | Paro to Priya: Namita Gokhale in conversation with Mita Kapur Live report | 10:30-11:15 | We, the Children of India: Revisiting the Constitution of India with Leila Seth | Presented by Pratham Books Live report |
| 12:00-1:00 | When All is Said: Nayantara Sahgal and Ritu Menon in conversation with Sunil Sethi Live report | Ek Zubaan, Do Awazein: Contemporary Urdu in India and Pakistan : Rakhshanda Jalil, Arthur Dudney, Ashok Vajpeyi | Yatindra Mishra (M) | 11:15-12:00 | Around the Story Tree: Folk Tales with Vikram Sridhar for ages 5+ Live report |
| 1:00-2:00 | A Lifetime in Choreography: Dr. Maya Rao- Madhu Nataraj & Vimala Rangachar | Performances by Natya and STEM Dance Kampni along with excerpts of the film 'Maya to Matter' Live report | The personal and the universal - Tackling nationhood and translations: Sitanshu Yashashchandra, Volga, TP Rajeevan & H.S. Shivaprakash | Mini Krishnan (M) Book Launch: HS Shivaprakash's 'Everyday Yogi' Live report | 12:00-12:30 | Tiger by the Tail: Tiger Quiz with Venita Coelho for ages 8-12 Live report |
| 2:00-3:00 | Male Voice in the Indian Novel: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Altaf Tyrewala, Indrajit Hazra & Palash Krishna Mehrotra | Mita Kapur (M) Live report | Kala Rupankar--Interface of Hindi literature and the arts: Shubha Mudgal, Mrinal Pande, Pankaj Rag & Yatindra Mishra | Sundeep Bhutoria (M) | 12:30-1:00 | Stories from the North Eastern Hills with Arthi Anand for ages 5+ Live report |
| 3:00-4:00 | Dakshinayan: What Classical Tag means to South Indian languages: Chandrashekhara Kambara, Volga & Joe D' Cruz | Krishna Manavalli (M) A Sahitya Akademi presentation | Notes and Notations: Writing Music: Margaret Barrett, Robert Davidson, Graham Welch, Vikram Sampath & Lakshmi Devnath | Anil Srinivasan (M) An ISME-SEMPRE presentation | 1:00-1:45 | My Life in Cartoons by Brenton McKenna for ages 9-12 |
| 4:00-5:00 | Women's Narratives- from the personal to the political: Leila Seth, Asma Jahangir, Lijia Zhang & Shobhaa De | Nupur Basu (M) Live report | e-Kannada- Technology and the Future of Kannada Literature: Mahamed Ismail, Banjagere Jayaprakash & Prakash Kambatthalli | Maya Chandra (M) Live report | 1:45-2:45 | A Ghostly Detective Workshop by Shweta Taneja for ages 9-13 |
| 5:00-6:00 | Ballot Box- Polls 2014 and their message: Sankarshan Thakur, Shekhar Gupta and Swapan Dasgupta | Madhu Trehan (M) | Then my Heart with Pleasure Fills: Poetry readings: Keki Daruwala, T P Rajeevan, Ashok Vajpeyi, Sitanshu Yashaschandra & Pankaj Rag | Yatindra Mishra (M) | 2:45-4:45 | Harry Potter Quiz by Sonali Bhatia for Potter lovers of all ages |
| 4:45-6:15 | An Evening with the Storywallahs - Stories from Around the World for ages 4+ | |||
| 6:30-8:30 | A Hindustani classical music concert by renowned musician Shubha Mudgal accompanied by Aneesh Pradhan (Tabla) and Sudhir Nayak (Harmonium) | Evening anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash | ||
Day 3 - Sunday | September 28, 2014
| Samskara | Suragi | Bharathipura | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | The Outsider Inside-- India through foreign eyes: Sam Miller, Arthur Dudney, Dominique Varma & Andie De Arment | Sunil Sethi (M) | Going Places-Travel writing: Zhang Su Li, Neelesh Mishra, Zac O'Yeah & Sundeep Bhutoria | G. Sampath (M) | With Malice towards One and All-Celebrating Khushwant Singh: Tisca Chopra and Humra Quraishi Live report |
| 11:00-12:00 | On Fatwas, Fascism & Falling Over Backwards: Arun Shourie in conversation with Madhu Trehan Live report | Kannadada Nava Roopantara: Rebooting Kannada for the Future: Rudra Prasad N, Vasant Shetty and Sandeep K N | Sowjanya KK (M) Live report | Love-Asana- Twists and Turns of the Heart: Vijay Nagaswamy, Preeti Shenoy & Milan Vohra | Nandita Bose (M) Live report |
| 12:00-1:00 | Arun Shourie and Shekhar Gupta in conversation. | And Dances with the Daffodils-- Poetry readings: Nirupama Dutt, Sunayana Kachroo and Tanja Dückers | H.N. Arathi (M) | The Gaon Connection- Neelesh Mishra in conversation with Vasanthi Hariprakash |
| 1:00-2:00 | Ocean to Ocean: Susmit Sen (of 'Indian Ocean' fame) in conversation with Sathya Saran | Voices from South East Asia: Lijia Zhang, Zhang Su Li & Sabaree Mitra | CV Ranganathan (M) Live report | Infinite Jest: G Sampath, Zac O' Yeah, Aruna Nambiar & Jane De Suza | Sidin Vadukut (M) Live report |
| 2:00-3:00 | My Life, My Work: Girish Karnad in conversation with Arshia Sattar | Voice, Suppression & Imagination: Contemporary Indigenous Writing from Australia: Dylan Coleman, Jeanine Leane, Marie Munkara, Brenton McKenna | Mridula Chakraborthy (M) [with support from Australian Government, through Australia Council for the Arts] Live report | The Writer as a Performer & Public Figure- Young writers in Indian languages: Binod Ghosal, Gayatribala Panda, Nisar Azam & Yatindra Mishra | Rakhshanda Jalil (M) [A Sahitya Akademi presentation |
| 3:00-4:00 | The Business of News: Has the Media sold its soul? -Mrinal Pande, Haroon Khalid, Tanja Dückers & Madhu Trehan | T.M. Veeraraghav (M) | KeLu Kavithe- Poetry readings: Tarini Shubhadayini, Na. Damodara Shetty, Prathibha Nandakumar & Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy | HN Arathi (M) | Building your Own Blocks: Entrepreneurship in India Today: Vishwas Mudagal, Ajit Balakrishnan, TV Mohandas Pai & Kiran Mazumdar Shaw | Harish Bijoor (M) |
| 4:00-5:00 | Debating Hinduism and the Indian Grand Narrative: Rajiv Malhotra in conversation with TV Mohandas Pai | Borderlands: Writing from India's North East- Tayenjam Bijoykumar Singh, Dhruba Hazarika, Jahnavi Barua & Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih | Mitra Phukan (M) | She Writes...- Fictionistas have their Say: Gita Aravamudan, Apoorva Purohit, Radhika Jha & Gayatribala Panda | Nirupama Dutt (M) (Launch of Gita Aravamudan's Baby Makers: The story of Indian Surrogacy) |
| 5:30-6:30 | On Balance: Leila Seth in conversation with Vasanthi Hariprakash | 377 Stories-The Queer Lives of the Law: Nalini Rajan, Vasudhendra, Arvind Narrain and Minal Hajratwala | Danish Sheikh (M) | Kashmir: the Valley of Tears- Sameer Arshad Khatlani, Sankarshan Thakur, Sunayana Kachroo & Neelesh Mishra | Humra Quraishi (M) |
| 6:30-8:00 | A Country Gagged & Bound?: Arun Shourie, Girish Karnad, Shubha Mudgal, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Joe D' Cruz, Rajiv Malhotra, Swapan Dasgupta, Shekhar Gupta & Sankarshan Thakur | Arshia Sattar (M) | ||
Specials
- Documentaries
Sep 27-28 / Sat-Sun | 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM | Bookstore - LitMart Grand Finale
Sep 27 / Sat | 3 PM – 5 PM | Bookstore - Goethe in Word & Deed with Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan
Schnupperstunde: Learn German in 30 minutes
Schuhplattler: Join in German Folk Dance with Jennifer Swanda
Sep 27-28 / Sat-Sun | 5 to 6 PM | Bookstore - Ink.quiz.ition – The BLF Books Quiz by Nexus Consulting
Sep 28/Sun | 3 PM – 5 PM | Bookstore - #BLFMeetup, Come meet your tribe
Sep 26-28/Fri-Sun | 3 PM – 4 PM | Amphitheatre
Sep 27/Sat | BYOB – Bring Your Own Books in collaboration with Barter.Li - ‘A Thousand Words’ by Kumar La Noce – A piece of literature as a work of art
All day | Festival Lawns - FACES-FORCES-FORMS by Gallery G – A showcase of art and sculpture
All day | Crowne Plaza Lobby and Festival Lawns
The above schedule, timings and panelists are subject to change.