Day 1 - Saturday | December 5, 2015
| Left Wing | Right Wing | |
|---|---|---|
| 9.00-9.30 | Inaugural: Chandrashekhara Kambara and Mohammad Zaman Azurdah | |
| 9.30-10.15 | At the Crossroads: Keynote address by Shashi Deshpande | |
| 10.20-11.20 | How to discover your own Gita?: Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Mani Rao | Poetic Readings: Kanaka Ha.Ma, Prajna Mattihalli, Shinie Antony, Subodh Sarkar and Tulasi Venugopal | Launch of Kavita Pania's 'Kavitanshu' |
| 11.30-12.25 | Rebooting India: Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah in conversation with Samar Halarnkar (M) | Upamanyu Chatterjee in conversation with Zac O'Yeah |
| 12.30-1.25 | The New Age Romantics: Durjoy Datta, Preeti Shenoy and Ravinder Singh | Nandita Bose (M) | War & Peace - In Verse: Anne-Marie Kenessey, Mani Rao, Neal Hall and Per Bloch |
| 1.30-2.25 | Sirigannada- Hindhe, Indhu, Mundhe; Kannada past, present and future: Chandrashekhara Kambara, Hampa Nagarajaiah, Kamala Hampana and Narahalli Balasubrahmanya | Harisha GB (M) | Confessions of a Biographer: Emily Holleman, Jaishree Misra, Manu Pillai and Yatindra Mishra | Sunil Sethi (M) |
| 2.30-3.25 | Ethnic identities in the midst of conflict: Haroon Khalid, Mohammad Zaman Azurdah and Padma Rao Sundarji | Maya Mirchandani (M) | Manto in times of intolerance - An interactive reading by Aakar Patel |
| 3.30-4.25 | Cracking the Bollywood code with Ayushmann Khurrana and Tahira Kashyap | Challenges facing Creative Writing in Sanskrit today: Dr. Radhavallabh Tripathi, Shankar Rajaraman and T S Vishwanathan | Dr. Shatavadhani R Ganesh (M) |
| 4.30-5.25 | It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World: Piyush Pandey in conversation with Ganga Ganapathi | From Anna to AAP: Mass movement to political party to governance: Ashutosh, Ashwin Mahesh and Sambit Patra |
| 5.30-6.30 | Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression - Ramachandra Guha | |
| 6.30-7.15 | The Atta Galatta -Bangalore Literature Festival Book Awards | |
| 7.15- 8.30 | Kurai Ondrum Illai: Remembering M.S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic Classical concert by M.S. Subbulakshmi's great-granddaughter Aishwarya S and party | |
| Sessions anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash | Sessions anchored by Tony Francis and Rachna Singh | |
Day 2 - Sunday | December 6, 2015
| Left Wing | Right Wing | |
|---|---|---|
| 10.00-10.55 | The Netaji Files: Anuj Dhar on the legacy of Subhash Chandra Bose | Mahakavi Subramania Bharati's Poetry - An artistic presentation: Geetha Srikrishnan, Ramaa Venugopalan and Usha Rajagopalan |
| 11.00-11.55 | Tipu Sultan and the Re-fashioning of History: Dinesh Gundu Rao, Krishna Murthy Hanuru, Tejasvi Surya and Vikram Sampath | Maya Mirchandani (M) | Today's cinema and children: Malavika Avinash, Prakash Belawadi and Ramya | Darius Sunawala (M) |
| 12.00-12.55 | Challenges to Modernity: MJ Akbar | The short and short of it: Writing short stories: Diwakar S, Kulpreet Yadav, Madhurantakam Narendra and Paramita Satpathy | Sundeep Bhutoria (M) |
| 1:00-1:55 | Are we speaking the same language: Where is Bhasha headed?: Mohammad Zaman Azurdah, Mridula Garg, Subodh Sarkar and Vaasanthi | Janaky Sreedharan (M) | Pangs of Separation - Partition tales: Aanchal Malhotra, Anam Zakaria and Venkat Dhulipala | Maya Mirchandani (M) |
| 2.00-2.55 | A World Undone: 100 years of World War 1: Elke Falat, Julia Tieke, Steffen Kopetzky and Vedica Kant | Sunil Sethi (M) | Creating your protagonist - The agony and ecstasy: Haroon Khalid, Manjiri Prabhu, Mona Verma and Poile Sengupta | Manju Jaidka (M) |
| 3.00-3.55 | Remaking Hindu Imagination - Fact and Fiction: Akshaya Mukul, Kavita Kane, Vamsee Juluri | V Raghunathan (M) | New perspectives in Bhasha: Dr. K N Ganeshaiah, Mohammad Zaman Azurdah, Subodh Sarkar and Yatindra Mishra | Paramita Satpathy (M) |
| 4.00-4.55 | A Little Girl in a Big City: Andaleeb Wajid, Asha Francis, Milan Vohra and Rupa Gulab | Rachna Singh (M) | Karnakavita: Hindi kavya sammelan: Deevas Gupta, Lovely Goswami, Mohit Kataria and Padmavathi Rao | Sourav Roy (M) |
| 5.00-5.55 | Who does the writer write for?: Mridula Garg, Shoba Narayan, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi and Steffen Kopetzky | Sunil Sethi (M) | Out, damned spot! - On Crime Fiction: Manjiri Prabhu, Manju Jaidka, Sharath Komarraju and Zac O'Yeah | Mona Verma (M) |
| 6.00-7.30 | Are we heading towards an intolerant India today?: Aakar Patel, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Madhu Kishwar, Padma Rao Sundarji, Saba Naqvi, Sambit Patra, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, T.V. Mohandas Pai and Vikram Sampath | Maya Mirchandani (M) | |
| Sessions anchored by Vasanthi Hariprakash | Sessions anchored by Tony Francis and Rachna Singh | |
Specials
- Makkala Koota – Lit for Kids @ BLF
- Bangalore Literature Festival LitMart
- Bangalore Literature Festival Workshop Series
- The Little Languages Film Festival
- Atta Galatta – Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize
- World War I Exhibition by Elke Falat and Julia Tieke
The above schedule, timings and panelists are subject to change.