Day 1 | Sat | 28 Oct
| #blrlitfest Venues | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speak Up | Speak Out | The Red Couch | Children | Literature | Fun |
| 10:00 am Remembering Gauri Ammu Joseph with Nimi Ravindran and Padmavati Rao | Children | Literature | Fun or C | L | F has in store plenty of activities for kids of all ages and parents are most welcome to join and watch! | ||
| 10:30 am Jingoism Vs. Patriotism Ramachandra Guha | |||
| 11:00 am The City as a Protagonist Imraan Coovadia, Suketu Mehta with Ravi Singh | 11:00 am Cutting The Crap Out of Life Shradha Sharma with Darlington Hector | ||
| 11:30 am In Hot Blood Bachi Karkaria with Meenal Baghel | 11:30 am റാണി - Raani, A Reading in Malayalam Paul Zacharia | 11:30 am Fly Your Own Kite Leela Broome (6y-10y) | |
| 12 noon சாதியும் நானும் - Caste and I Perumal Murugan with Ambai and Kannan Sundaram | 12 noon The Family as a Microcosm Sadiqa Peerbhoy with Yasmeen Premji | ||
| 12:30 pm City of Soul Jessy James LaFleur and Band | 12:30 pm The Autograph Seeker Tony V Francis with Rashmi Menon and Shinie Antony | 12:30 pm Calling All World-Conquering Teenagers (and Almost-Teenagers)! Roopa Pai (10y+) | |
| 12:45 pm Silence - The Trolls are in Session Laxmi Murthy, Nidhi Razdan, Sindhu S with Ammu Joseph | |||
| 1:00 pm History of the Kannada Script and Language S. Settar | 1:00 pm Why Don’t we Remember the Cholas? Devi Yesodharan with Priya Ramani | ||
| 1:30 pm Just Breathe Radhika Vachani with Madhu Natraj | 1:30 pm Whose Side are You On? Gideon Haigh with Suresh Menon | 1:30 pm Grrr Grr! Time to Write a Wildlife Poem Bijal Vachcharajani (8y+) | |
| 1:45 pm Voyage of Words - Translators Set Sail MS Asha Devi, Kannan Sundaram, Subashree Krishnaswamy with Mini Krishnan | |||
| 2:00 pm Death by Litigation - The Perils of Business Reporting Josy Joseph, Maheshwar Peri, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta with Nidhi Razdan | 2:00 pm First Draft to Marketing - How to get Published Chhimi Tenduf-La | ||
| 2:30 pm Crime Pays! Manu Joseph, Ravi Subramanian, Shinie Antony, Vish Dhamija with Preeti Gill | 2:30 pm Personal Writing - What Makes it Resonate Natasha Badhwar with Samar Halarnkar | 2:30 pm Tiger, Tiger Anjana Basu with Sundeep Bhutoria (7y+) | |
| 3:00 pm ಅಂತರ ಗಂಗೆ - Antara Gange Bhargavi Narayan, Indira Lankesh, Dr. Vijaya with MS Asha Devi | 3:00 pm Tell me a Long, Long Story Mini Krishnan with Ritu Menon | 3:00 pm The Teen Who Writes Vishwesh Desai with Aparajitha Sankar (10y+) | |
| 3:30 pm Indira Sagarika Ghose with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta | 3:30 pm When God Went To Hell Ravi Gupta with Dr. Chandini Ssasha | ||
| 3:45 pm Storytelling Master Mind Aparna Athreya (5y+) | |||
| 4:00 pm Festering Wounds - The 1984 Riots Hardeep Singh Puri, Kanwaljit Deol, NS Madhavan with Preeti Gill | 4:00 pm How to Write For a Young Audience Ranjani Rengarajan | ||
| 4:15 pm Public Libraries in the Digital Age Hannelore Vogt with Satish Hosamani | |||
| 4:30 pm In the Name of God An Interaction with Manu Joseph | 4:30 pm Chit-Chat with Jumbo Anil Kumble (8y-16y) | ||
| 4:45 pm This Is My Story Savi Sharma with Varun Agarwal | 4:45 pm ಕಾವ್ಯ ಸಂಜೆ Kaavya Sanje Chand Pasha N S, Mohammed Musaib, Namana B, Padmavati Rao, Reshma Ramesh, Shashank Johri, Siddartha M S and curated by Mamta Sagar | ||
| 5:00 pm Maximum Suketu Suketu Mehta | 5:00 pm Drawgon Time Krishna Bala Shenoi (6y+) | ||
| 5:15 pm How India’s T20 World Cup Win Changed Indian and World Cricket Anil Kumble, Gideon Haigh, Rajdeep Sardesai with Sharda Ugra | |||
| 5:30 pm Scandals from Mythology Anuja Chandramouli | |||
| 5:45 pm The Secret Diary of Kasturba Neelima Dalmia Adhar with Sundeep Bhutoria | |||
| 6:00 pm How Anu Aunty Braves Bollywood Varun Agarwal | 6:00 pm :-) and :-( Kirtana Kumar’s Theatre Lab (4y+) | ||
| 6:15 pm Conversations with People not like Us Arun Maira with Madan Padaki | 6:15 pm From Page to Screen Baradwaj Rangan, MK Raghavendra, Sanjoy Hazarika with Ravi Gupta | ||
| 6:30 pm Writing’s Hell (But We Just Can’t Stop) Adrian Levy | |||
| 6:45 pm Perilous Interventions: The Use of Force and the Continuing Chaos Hardeep Singh Puri with PS Raghavan | |||
| 7:00 pm Poetics and Politics - Identity’s Last SecretMakarand R Paranjape | 7:00 pm നിലവിളി - Nilavili, A Reading in Malayalam NS Madhavan | ||
| 7:30 pm Romantic Fantasy - A Piano Duo (in The Grand Ballroom) Natallia K Kapylova and Liudmila Alizarchyk | |||
| *All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | |||
Day 2 | Sun | 29 Oct
| #blrlitfest Venues | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speak Up | Speak Out | The Red Couch | Children | Literature | Fun |
| 10:00 am India’s Democracy XI Rahul Dravid, Rajdeep Sardesai with Prem Panicker | 10:00 am Jungle Safari Kaadoo Games (4y+) | ||
| 10:30 am Tailing Veerappan Vijay Kumar with Kanwaljit Deol | 10:30 am Writing Workshop Rajorshi Chakraborti | ||
| 11:00 am The Writer’s Role in Speaking Out Paul Zacharia | 11:00 am Women in Mythology Ira Mukhoty, Kavita Kane with Reena Puri | 11:00 am Rain, A Princess Without a Nose and Death on the Roads Monideepa Sahu | 11:00 am ಬಣ್ಣದ ತಗಡಿನ ತುತ್ತೂರಿ - Bannada Tagadina Tutturi Namkampani Interactive Theatre (4y+) |
| 11:30 am Women in Contemporary Literature Ambai, Indira Chandrasekhar with Anjana Basu | 11:30 am Blogging, Podcasting - Anyone? Amit Varma | 11:30 pm Adventures of Zippy Anitha Balachandran (4y+) | |
| 11:45 am The World of AK Ramanujan Girish Karnad, Guillermo Rodriguez with Chandan Gowda | |||
| 12 noon Women Traveling Alone Jessy James LaFleur, Meenal Baghel, Pilar Maria Guerrieri with Chhimi Tenduf-La | 12 noon The Wall and the World of Kamadeva Sowmya Aji with Tabbu Dinesh Rao | 12 noon Launch of Valmiki Ramayana Box Set Amar Chitra Katha (4y+) | |
| 12:30 pm Separated at Birth - India and Pakistan at 70 Adrian Levy, Kamal Davar, TCA Raghavan, Ritu Menon with Nitin Pai | 12:30 pmThe Sanitization of Women in Indian History Ira Mukhoty | 12:30 am Make Your Earth Warrior Cartoon Amar Chitra Katha (7y+) | |
| 12:45 pm RBI, Government and Individuals: It’s Complicated. YV Reddy, TCA Srinivasa Raghavan with MS Sriram | |||
| 1:00 pm Lanka’s Princess, Vamp or Winner? Kavita Kane | |||
| 1:30 pm Aadhaar - Dystopia or Utopia Arun Maira, Jairam Ramesh, Sanjay Jain with Charles Assisi | 1:30 pm Writing for Children - Contemporary Issues Vs Traditional Stories Ranjit Lal, Reena Puri with Sudeshna Shome | 1:30 pm Launch of “Boo” Jahnavi Barua, Madhavi Mahadevan, Shinie Antony, Usha KR | 1:30 pm इधर उधर ಕಥೆಗಳು - Idhar Udhar Kathegalu Storywallahs (Multilingual) (4y+) |
| 2:00 pm Chasing Bin Laden Adrian Levy with Rohini Mohan | 2:00 pm Sojourn to South Africa Imraan Coovadia | ||
| 2:15 pm Atta Galatta - BLF Book Prize Awards Ceremony | |||
| 2:30 pm Quo Vadis Higher Education? Pankaj Chandra with S Raghunath | 2:30 pm Escape with the Magic Cap Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (10y+) | ||
| 2:45 pm Mrs. Funnybones Twinkle Khanna with Darius Sunawala | 2:45 pm Nature and the City Harini Nagendra, Jairam Ramesh with Dhanya Rajendran | ||
| 3:00 pm Launch of “The Way I See It - A Gauri Lankesh Reader” Kanhaiya Kumar, Paul Zacharia with Chandan Gowda | |||
| 3:30 pm A Life Like No Other Sonal Mansingh with Sujata Prasad | 3:30 pm Comically Yours Bachi Karkaria, Chhimi Tenduf-La with Amit Varma | 3:30 pm Inside India’s Greatest Election Machine Prashant Jha | 3:30 pm Write a Story Jahnavi Barua (10y+) |
| 4:00 pmTaboo Desire and a Dead Woman’s Saris Indira Chandrasekhar | |||
| 4:15 pm In Short Karki Krishnamurthy, Shanthi K Appanna, Vikram Hathwar with Abdul Rasheed | |||
| 4:30 pm Border Tales Bishwanath Ghosh, Kamal Davar with Ritu Menon | 4:30 pm From Pitch to Page - The Story of ‘Buffering Love’ Issac John | 4:30 pm Me and My Animals Ranjit Lal with Sudeshna Shome Ghosh (10y+) | |
| 5:00 pm Literary Fiction - An Endangered Species? Ambai, Lu Jingjie, Rajorshi Chakraborti with Imraan Coovadia | 5:00 pm My Little Adventure with Books Manohar Devadoss | 5:00 pm Of Peacock Tears and Holy Cows Aruna Nambiar and Nilanjan Choudhury | |
| 5:30 pm India and China: How History is a Fickle Mistress Nirupama Menon Rao with Raghu Karnad | 5:30 pm Legal Thrillers - A New Genre Vish Dhamija | 5:30 pm Shadow Puppetry performance Prahlad Acharya (4y+) | |
| 6:00 pm Nationalism, Populism and the Threat to the Global Liberal Order R. Jagannathan, Kanhaiya Kumar, Makarand R. Paranjape, Manu Joseph, Sagarika Ghose, Suketu Mehta with Harish Bijoor | 6:00 pm Saris or Pantsuits? Radhika Nathan | ||
| 7:30 pm Sarod Maestros in Concert Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash accompanied by Vijay Ghate | |||
| 3:30 - 5:30 pm Litmart Finalist Pitches at The Grand BallRoom | |||
| *All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | |||