Day 1 | Sat | 12 Dec
| Auditorium | Hall |
|---|---|
| 10:00 am Grandparents' Bag of Stories ^ Sudha Murty with Andaleeb Wajid | |
| 10:15 am Club You to Death Anuja Chauhan with Niret Alva | |
| 11:00 am A Spotlight on Debuts Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking ^ with Krish Ashok What's Wrong With You, Karthik? ^ Siddhartha Vaidyanathan with Aparajitha Sankar | |
| 11:15 am The Masked Intruder: Pandemic and You Anna Chandy and Dr. Farah Adam with Amandeep Sandhu | |
| 12:00 noon Permanent address Aruna Nambiar, Usha Ananda Krishna and Usha KR with Zac O’Yeah | |
| 12:15 pm Poetry Pickings Mani Rao, Mamta Sagar, Maitreyee B Chowdhury, Nandita Bose and Prathibha Nandakumar | |
| 1:00 pm The Nine Lives of Pakistan ^ Declan Walsh with Neena Gopal | |
| 1:15 pm Modern Perspectives on the Mahabharata Krishna Udayasankar and Madhavi Mahadevan | |
| 2:00 pm Bhasha Bonding Krishna Manavalli, Saniya and Vasudhendra with Mamta Sagar | |
| 2:15 pm शहर और कविता Mohit Kataria and Padmavati Rao with Sourav Roy | |
| 3:00 pm Saturday Philosophy Club ^ Alexander McCall Smith with Zac O'Yeah | |
| 3:15 pm Calcutta Chronicles Nandita Bose and Tony V Francis with Maitreyee B Chowdhury | |
| 4:00 pm A Conversation with the Winners of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 Amit Ahuja, Jairam Ramesh with Manish Sabharwal, NIF Trustee | |
| 4:15 pm Crime and the City Rachna Singh, V Sanjay Kumar and Zac O'Yeah with Krishna Udayasankar | |
| 5:00 pm Azim Premji: The Man Beyond the Billions ^ Sundeep Khanna and Varun Sood with Pankaj Mishra | |
| 5:15 pm When the Headline is the Story Amandeep Sandhu, Neena Gopal and Nirmala Govindrajan with Aruna Nambiar | |
| 6:00 pm India Love Project Priya Ramani, Samar Halarnkar | |
| 6:15 pm Food and Faith Shoba Narayan with Mani Rao | |
| ^ Indicates that some speakers in these sessions are participating virtually via Zoom. * All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | |
Day 2 | Sun | 13 Dec
| Auditorium | Hall |
|---|---|
| 10:00 am One Arranged Murder ^ Chetan Bhagat with Shrabonti Bagchi | |
| 10:15 am Avasthe Chandan Gowda, Deepa Ganesh and N Manu Chakravarthy with Indira Chandrasekhar | |
| 11:00 am Romancing the Black Panther ^ Rohini Nilekani with Usha KR | |
| 11:15 am The Last White Hunter Joshua Mathew with Tony V Francis | |
| 11:45 am The Zoo in My Backyard Usha Rajagopalan with Tony V Francis | |
| 12:00 noon A Tale of Two Spies ^ Asad Durrani and AS Dulat with Anand Arni | |
| 12:15 pm Jeena Yahaan, Marna Yahaan Padmavati Rao, MK Raghavendra and Vidyashankar N with Samantak Bhadra | |
| 1:00 pm Art at Stages, Salons, Streets and Stories ^ Bruce Guthrie, Lynne Fernandez, Tim Brinkman and Varun Gupta with Sadhana Rao | |
| 1:15 pm Body and Soul Vasudhendra with Rheea Mukherjee | |
| 2:00 pm Writing Satire ^ Moni Mohsin with Milan Vohra | |
| 2:15 pm Mythology via Women Madhavi S Mahadevan, Rashmi Terdal and Samhita Arni with Mani Rao | |
| 3:00 pm The Story of My Captivity, Survival and Freedom ^ Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan with Chandan Gowda | |
| 3:15 pm Language, Literature and Translation Vivek Shanbhag with Karthik Venkatesh | |
| 4:00 pm New Age Archer ^ Jeffrey Archer with Nirmala Govindarajan | |
| 4:15 pm Tracking the New Girl Andaleeb Wajid and Milan Vohra with Krishna Manavalli | |
| 5:00 pm A Literary Decade: Out of Print ^ Jahnavi Barua, Raza Naeem, Rheea Mukherjee, Samhita Arni, Tanuj Solanki, Vasudhendra and Zui Kumar-Reddy with Indira Chandrasekhar | |
| 5:15 pm Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2020 Awards Ceremony | |
| 6:00 pm Made in India ^ Milind Soman and Roopa Pai with Mariam Begg | |
| 6:15 pm Eleven Stops to the Present: Stories of Bangalore Meera Iyer, Menaka Raman and Shweta Taneja with Karthik Venkatesh | |
| ^ Indicates that some speakers in these sessions are participating virtually via Zoom. * All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. | |