Day 1 | Sat | 27 Oct
| #blrlitfest Venues | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjust Maadi | Naale Baa | The Red Couch | C|L|F: Malgudi (ages 5-10) | C|L|F: Narnia (ages 11-15) |
| 10:00 am Benares: Ancient Customs, Contemporary Politics Aatish Taseer with Manu S Pillai | 10:00 am Mythology, History, Science: Why Conspiracy Sells Ashwin Sanghi with Madhavi S Mahadevan | 10:00 am Colonial Shikari: Bygone Bangalore Perspectives Joshua Mathew and Michael Ludgrove | ||
| 10:30 am All The Things I Do Vijay Seshadri | 10:30 am Four Greystroke and Poile Sengupta | 10:30 am I Need to Pee: Designing a Character Meenal Singh and Erik Egerup | ||
| 10:45 am The Snake and The Lotus: The Many Layers of Graphic Novels Appupen with VK Karthika | 10:45 am Lest We Forget: Descendents of Indenture Athol Williams, Deirdre Jonklaas Cadiramen, Simit Bhagat with Janet Steel | |||
| 11:00 am Translating Classics Velcheru Narayana Rao | ||||
| 11:15 am How I Became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma David Frawley | 11:15 am Pitara: Storytelling Board Game | 11:15 am Into the Poetic World Santhini Govindan | ||
| 11:30 am Yellamma and Other Stories Urban Folk Project | 11:30 am The Cows of Bangalore Shoba Narayan with Rashmi Menon | |||
| 11:45 am Quo Vadis Pakistan: Decoding our Neighbour Alyssa Ayres, Farzana Shaikh, Srinath Raghavan with Neena Gopal | ||||
| 12 noon The Things We Do Romulus Whitaker and Janaki Lenin | 12 noon Happy Fox: Illustration Time Aušra Kiudulaitė and Evelina Daciūte | 12 noon Teen Blues Poile Sengupta | ||
| 12:15 pm Questioning the Foundations of the Indian Republic Anand Teltumbde with Chandan Gowda | ||||
| 12:30 pm Outback Tales: Stories from Oz Philip McLaren and Roanna Gonsalves with Rajith Savanadasa | 12:30 pm Ujjivan: Small Loans That Transformed Lives Samit Ghosh and Subir Roy | 12:30 pm Like A Girl: Changing the World Aparna Jain, Poorna Malavath and Sharda Ugra | ||
| 12:45 pm Genes & Destiny: Are We Doomed to Be? Jahnavi Phalkey and Mukund Thattai | ||||
| 1:00 pm Crime, Corruption, Cronyism & More James Crabtree and Milan Vaishnav with Ashutosh Varshney | 1:00 pm In Search of Wacky Female Characters Sujata Parashar with Nandita Bose | 1:00 pm Padma Goes to Space Swetha Ragunathan | ||
| 1:15 pm State-of-the-Heart Novels: Heartbreak in Families Geetanjali Shree and KR Meera | ||||
| 1:30 pm Unfolding the Goddess Within Yogini Shambhavi Chopra | 1:30 pm Clowning with the Clowner Harish Bhuvan | 1:30 pm Alternative Storyline Debleena Majumdar | ||
| 1:45 pm The Business of Sex Nalini Jameela and Nora Bossong with Reshma Bharadwaj | 1:45 pm Building Blocks from Life: On Narrative Non-Fiction Bachi Karkaria, Manu S Pillai, Shoba Narayan with VK Karthika | |||
| 2:00 pm Who Owns That Song AR Venkatachalapathy with Srinath Raghavan | 2:00 pm Fun with the Clouds Santhini Govindan | 2:00 pm Creating Comic Strips Cilre | ||
| 2:15 pm The Female Gaze Haravu Spoorthy Gowda, Madhu Rani, Prathibha Nandakumar | ||||
| 2:30 pm Fashion: The Seamly and the Unseemly Manjima Bhattacharjya and Shvetha Jaishankar with Susan Thomas | 2:30 pm Is India Illiberal? Chidanand Rajghatta with Naresh Fernandes | 2:30 pm Once upon a Rhyme Meghna Singhee | 2:30 pm Wassup Bangalore Mirchi RJ Jimmy | |
| 2:45 pm Rules for Radicals: Setting Knowledge Free Carl Malamud with Supriya Sankaran | ||||
| 3:00 pm Intrepid Travelers: Strangers in a Strange Land Dan Morrison and Rhea Saran with Aparna Raman | 3:00 pm കഥകള്: Readings in Malayalam Benyamin and Sangeetha Sreenivasan | 3:00 pm Musical Notes Saskia Rao-de Haas | ||
| 3:15 pm Cityscape: Transforming Public Spaces Appupen, Giulia Ambrogi, Rouble Nagi with Kamya Ramachandran | 3:15 pm The Cloudfarers: How to Run Away from School Stephen Alter | |||
| 3:30 pm The Diary of a Political Idiot Jasmina Tesanovic with Shoma Chaudhury | 3:30 pm Kama: The Riddle of Desire Gurcharan Das with Shoba Narayan | 3:30 pm Storygami Nithya J Rao | ||
| 3:45 pm Know your Fantasy Janaki Murali | ||||
| 4:00 pm Listen to Me: A Memoir Shashi Deshpande with Nancy Batty, Usha KR and Vivek Shanbhag | 4:00 pm The Descent of Man Vijay Seshadri with Ranjit Hoskote | 4:00 pm Populism, Liberalism et al Ashutosh Varshney with Narayan Ramachandran | 4:00 pm How BLF Made Me a Writer Arundhati Nithiyanandhan | |
| 4:30 pm Winning on #377 Anjali Gopalan with Alok Prasanna Kumar | 4:30 pm Viewing the Other Shikhandin | 4:30 pm Busting Fake News: Developing a Scientific Temper CMCA | ||
| 4:45 pm Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years Bruce Sterling with Samit Basu | 4:45 pm The New India Foundation Awards Ramachandra Guha, Nandan Nilekani, Manish Sabharwal and Srinath Raghavan | |||
| 5:00 pm Hungry Gods Richa Lakhera | 5:00 pm A Very Naughty Bear: Mountain Adventures in Bhutan Paro Anand | |||
| 5:15 pm Tere Ishq Mein: Looking for the Divine in Music Rekha Bhardwaj with Mayukh Sarkar and Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri | 5:15 pm Calling all Sherlocks: Detective Writing Anushka Ravishankar | |||
| 5:30 pm Pencils Drawn: Cartooning in Trying Times Ponnappa and Ravi Shankar Etteth with Bachi Karkaria | 5:30 pm sahapedia.org Sudha Gopalakrishnan | 5:30 pm How to Tell a Story Stones2Milestones | ||
| 6:00 pm Is There an Indian Road to Equality? Ramachandra Guha | 6:00 pm The Young and the Restless Rajith Savanadasa, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, Shubhangi Swarup, Snigdha Poonam with Roanna Gonsalves | 6:00 pm The Aryavarta Chronicles Krishna Udayasankar | 6:00 pm The Day the Crayons Quit Jugaad Theatre | Venue: Grand Ballroom | |
| 6:30 pm A Fractured Life Shabnam Samuel with Prashant Sankaran | ||||
| 6:45 pm Agatha Christie, Poirot and Me Sophie Hannah with Madhavi S Mahadevan | ||||
| 7:00 pm Editor's Cut: Road to 2019 Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Saba Naqvi, Mukund Padmanabhan, Narayan Ramachandran with Ashutosh Varshney | 7:00 pm The Best Asian Short Stories Shashi Deshpande, Usha KR, Poile Sengupta and Jyothi Vinod with Monideepa Sahu | |||
| 7:30 pm Naipaul's Legacy Aatish Taseer with Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri | ||||
| 8:00 pm Alchemy of Sounds and Strings A Duet of Sitar and Indian Cello by Pandit Shubhendra Rao and Saskia Rao-de Haas with Shri Sapan Anjaria on Tabla | ||||
| *All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | ||||
Day 2 | Sun | 28 Oct
| #blrlitfest Venues | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adjust Maadi | Naale Baa | The Red Couch | C|L|F: Malgudi (ages 5-10) | C|L|F: Narnia (ages 11-15) |
| 10:00 am The Paradoxical Prime Minister Shashi Tharoor | 9:30 am - 12 noon Litmart Finalist Pitches at The Grand Ballroom | 10:00 am A Goddess for Today Amar Chitra Katha | ||
| 10:30 am Are we Truly Headed towards Climate Apocalypse? Mridula Ramesh with Aroon Raman | 10:30 am Rhyme Time: Poetry for the Young Anushka Ravishankar | |||
| 10:45 am Speaking in Rhyme: Poetry Readings Easterine Kire and Ranjit Hoskote | 10:45 am Where's the Body? Crime and Detection Bhaskar Chattopadhyay, Kiran Manral, Philip McLaren, Sophie Hannah with Nilanjan Choudhury | 10:45 am The Other: 'Otherization' of Young People Paro Anand | ||
| 11:00 am The Sad State of Indology Today Francois Gautier | 11:00 am Happy Fox: Illustration Time Aušra Kiudulaitė and Evelina Daciūte | |||
| 11:15 am Child Star to Her Own Woman Sarika with Sadhana Rao | ||||
| 11:30 am Crossing to Hampi: A Dramatic Exploration of the Vijayanagara Catastrophe Girish Karnad, Arundhati Nag, CN Ramachandran with Deepa Ganesh | 11:30 am Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication Thomas Abraham with Dan Morrison | 11:30 am Ma, I Want to be a Journalist Barkha Dutt, Mukund Padmanabhan with Shruthi Mohan | ||
| 12 noon Imran Khan: In the Hot Seat Farzana Shaikh and Max Rodenbeck | 12 noon The Brahmin Ravi Shankar Etteth with Ravi Joshi | 12 noon The Bard, The Baker and their Chemistry Trupti Kalamdani | ||
| 12:15 pm Green in My Dream Nagesh Hegde | ||||
| 12:30 pm Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World Snigdha Poonam with Shaili Chopra | 12:30 pm An Equal World: Beyond 377 Aatish Taseer, Madhavi Menon, Robert Dessaix, Vasudhendra with Anjali Gopalan | 12:30 pm Jashn-e-Adab Divya Prakash Dubey | 12:30 pm A Story and A Song Amar Chitra Katha | |
| 12:45 pm Let's Plot - Tips on Writing Mystery Stories Asha Nehemiah | ||||
| 1:00 pm हिंदी is Cool - Presented by Kalam Divya Prakash Dubey and Nikhil Sachan | 1:00 pm Asia Reborn Prasenjit Basu with Alex Travelli | |||
| 1:15 pm Women in Conflict Zones Barkha Dutt, Jasmina Tesanovic, Paro Anand, Rashmi Saksena with Humra Quraishi | 1:15 pm Tales the Traditional Way Lavanya Prasad | |||
| 1:30 pm Life, the Universe and Everything: The Influence of SF on Society Bruce Sterling, Krishna Udayasankar, Samit Basu with Gautam Shenoy | 1:30 pm Shades of Saffron Saba Naqvi with Narendar Pani | 1:30 pm Moral of the Story: Epics for Children Swetha Ragunathan | ||
| 1:45 pm Moonlight in the Sea Kartik Shanker | ||||
| 2:00 pm Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker Pavan K Varma with Shoma Chaudhury | 2:00 pm ET, robots and crazy scientists: Satyajit Ray's science fiction Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri | 2:00 pm Curtains Up: Theatre Writing for Teens Anuja Ghosalkar | ||
| 2:15 pm Trumpian Times Chidanand Rajghatta and Vijay Seshadri | ||||
| 2:30 pm The Art of Fact Checking Pratik Sinha | 2:30 pm Oink Oink: How The Pig Became Dirty Rahul Kansal | |||
| 2:45 pm Seventy...And to Hell With It Shobhaa De with Robert Dessaix | 2:45 pm Outside Looking In: Eyes on India Alex Traveli, Alyssa Ayres, James Crabtree, Max Rodenbeck and Prasenjit Basu with Nitin Pai | 2:45 pm Illustrating Children's Books Gujjarappa | ||
| 3:05 pm AG-BLF Book Prize | 3:00 pm Catch a Tiger by the Tale Krithi Karanth and KK Raghava | 3:00 pm Scribbling a Portrait Murali Krishna | ||
| 3:15 pm Feminist Rani Shaili Chopra with Kiran Manral | ||||
| 3:30 pm ಮೋಹನಸ್ವಾಮಿ - ಕಥನ ವಾಚಕಾಭಿನಯ Aata Maata | 3:30 pm The Escapists of J. Mullick Road Usha Ananda Krishna with Renuka Chatterjee | 3:30 pm Ha Ha Hour: Life of a Standup Comedian Karthik Kumar | ||
| 3:45 pm Mard Ko Dard Hoga: #MeToo Sandhya Menon, Sister Jesme, Tushita Patel and Vinta Nanda with Barkha Dutt | 3:45 pm The Sunshower Song Vinayak Varma | |||
| 4:00 pm Ask Shobhaa Anything Shobhaa De | ||||
| 4:15 pm Ode to Southern Poets AR Venkatachalapathy, Mukunda Rao, Velcheru Narayana Rao with Prathibha Nandakumar | 4:15 pm Looking for Stories? Poile Sengupta | 4:15 pm The Number Game: Vedic Maths Dr. Jini Gopinath | ||
| 4:30 pm ISRO: A Personal History Gita Aravamudan and R Aravamudan | ||||
| 4:45 pm Telling a Story, Shaping the World Easterine Kire and Nora Bossong with Renuka Chatterjee | 4:45 pm Meet Petu Pumpkin and the Awesome Foursome Arundhati Venkatesh | 4:45 pm Design for Change Workshop For Young Minds! Aparna Raman | ||
| 5:00 pm Lives of Girls and Women Janice Pariat and Preeti Shenoy with Kiran Manral | 5:00 pm Absence of the Rule of Law Harish Narasappa with Ashwin Mahesh | |||
| 5:15 pm Survive or Sink Naina Lal Kidwai with Dan Morrison | ||||
| 5:30 pm My Family and Other Animals Janaki Lenin, Krithi Karanth, Stephen Alter with Kartik Shanker | 5:30 pm Chit-Chat on Bofors and Rafale Chitra Subramaniam with Chidanand Rajghatta | 5:30 pm The Hunger Game Be The Miracle | 5:30 pm Tom Riddle's Digital Diary Aashna Dasgupta | |
| 5:45 pm ‘ಬೊಳುವಾರು’ ಜೊತೆ ಮುಸ್ಸಂಜೆ ಮಾತು Bolwar Mahammed Kunhi with MS Sriram | ||||
| 6:00 pm Nautanki Diaries Dominic Franks | 6:00 pm Abracadabra: Time for Some Jadoo K.S Ramesh | Venue: Grand Ballroom | |||
| 6:15 pm Love and Longing in Hindustan Madhavi Menon and Pavan K Varma | 6:15 pm Poetry Readings Ranjit Hoskote | |||
| 6:30 pm Modern Family: Creative Dysfunction Benyamin with Geetanjali Shree | 6:30 pm Hunger's Daughters Nirmala Govindarajan with Ashish Chandra Sen | |||
| 6:45 pm Whose Lie is it Anyway: #Fakenews Chitra Subramaniam, Francois Gautier, Mukund Padmanabhan, Naresh Fernandes, Pratik Sinha, Sreenivasan Jain with Nitin Pai | ||||
| 7:00 pm Hampi: Of Gods And Kings Bharath Ramamrutham and Shama Pawar | 7:00 pm How to Hold a Grudge Sophie Hannah | |||
| 8:00 pm An Odyssey of Seven Notes Saxophone Lavanya with Rageshri Dhumal (Keyboard), Shalini Mohan (Bass Guitar), Siddhi Shah (Drums), Soumya Sanathanan (Percussion) | ||||
| *All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | ||||