Day 1 | Sat | 18 Dec
Auditorium - Ground Floor | Hall - I Floor | Gallery - II Floor | Board Room - II Floor |
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10:00 am The Last Queen Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni* with Akhila Krishnamurthy | 10:00 am The Future of Indian Multilingualism Purushottama Bilimale and Shakira Jabeen B | ||
10:15 am What's with Andy? Andy Griffiths* | |||
10:45 am Scripting a Future for Endangered Languages Kaveri Ponnapa, Sayeegeetha Hegde and Vivek Shanbhag | |||
11:00 am How to Find Your Magic Place Preeti Shenoy with Vani Mahesh | 11:00 am Invisible Empire: A Natural History of Viruses Pranay Lal with Rahul Matthan | ||
11:15 am The Stranger in the Mirror Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra* with Niranjan Thade | |||
11:30 am Koraga: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Purushottama Bilimale and Shridhar Nada | 11:30 am AMA with Pranay Lal | ||
12:00 noon Bhasha Barons: The Business of Publishing Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Pavaman Athani with Karthik Venkatesh | 12:00 noon Story of the Clan SS Naganand with K Jairaj | ||
12:15 pm Konkani: One Language Multiple Scripts Damodar Mauzo*, Melvyn Rodrigues and Vivek Shanbhag | 12:15 pm AMA with Preeti Shenoy | ||
12:30 pm Head over Heals Lakshmipradha Srinivasan with Anitha Menon | |||
1:00 pm Love Games: Romance IRL Prajwal Hegde, Rijula Das*, Rucha Chitrodia*, Vani Mahesh with Lakshmi Subodh | 1:00 pm Silent Sentinels: Traditional Architecture of Kodagu Brinda Somaya* | 1:00 pm Finding Shiva Rukmini Vijayakumar with Prakash Belawadi | |
1:15 pm Camera & Quill Anita Thomas* and Neil Daswani* | |||
1:30 pm Ancestral Bunt Homes of Tulunadu Gayathri Shetty and Sayeegeetha Hegde | 1:30 pm Furrows in a Field Sugata Srinivasaraju with Karthik Venkatesh and Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed | ||
2:00 pm Lights! Camera! Covid! : Cinema in the new Normal Gita Aravamudan, Manish Mundra, Niranjan Thade with Roohi Dixit | 2:00 pm AMA with Gagandeep Kang | ||
2:15 pm The Origin Story of India's States Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan with Sunethra Nagaraaj | |||
2:30 pm Messy Women: Writing Complex Female Characters Kiran Manral*, Madhumita Bhattacharyya, Nisha Susan*, Jahnavi Barua with Gayatri Chandrasekharan | |||
2:45 pm Dakhni Urdu: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka MN Sayeed and Karthik Malli | |||
3:00 pm ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಕ್ರಾಂತಿ : Readers to Writers: The Online Revolution Banashankari Kulkarni, Shaina Srinivas Shetty, Rohini Ranganathan, KV Kasturi Ram with Prathibha Nandakumar | 3:00 pm AMA with Samanth Subramanian | ||
3:30 pm The Lost Fragrance of Infinity: A novel on Sufism Moin Mir* with Anuja Chandramouli | 3:30 pm Clueless at 30 Shalini Prakash with Jayanthi Madhukar | ||
3:45 pm Till We Win: India's Fight Against the Pandemic Gagandeep Kang with Pavan Srinath | |||
4:00 pm The Well-being of All Living Things: Kannada Literature and Ecology | ಸಕಲ ಜೀವಾತ್ಮಗಳ ಲೇಸನ್ನೇ ಬಯಸುತ್ತಾ Rajendra Chenni* | 4:00 pm Mosaic: Poetry of Life Manish Mundra with Sourav Roy | 4:00 pm AMA with Aakar Patel | |
4:30 pm Ace against Odds Sania Mirza* with Prajwal Hegde | 4:30 pm Thinking With Ghalib Anjum Altaf*, Amit Basole with Shabnam Virmani | 4:30 pm Writing First Books Anvita Sudarshan and Manisha Mohan Puri with Shalaka Kulkarni | |
5:00 pm The River Has No Fear of Memories: Girish Karnad Arshia Sattar and Anmol Tikoo | 5:00 pm A Bird from Afar Anshul Chaturvedi with Nandita Bose | 5:00 pm Halakki Kannada: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Akshata Krishnamurthy* and Phalgun Gouda | |
5:15 pm A Woman's Work: The Personal and The Professional Anvita Sudarshan, Aparna Devagiri, Anupamaa V, Manisha Mohan Puri with Sajita Nair | |||
5:30 pm The Happiness Trail Ramesh Venkateswaran with Ramanujam Sridhar and Hema Ravichandar | 5:30 pm A Writer's Craft Sabrina Janesch* with Shinie Antony* | ||
6:00 pm 400 Days: Sequels and Bestsellers Chetan Bhagat with Vani Mahesh | 6:00 pm Thought of Art - Moments & Movements Akhila Krishnamurthy, Deepti Navaratna, Suresh Jayaram, Supriti with Sadhana Rao | 6:00 pm Unshackling India Ajay Chhibber*, Salman Soz* with Ashima Goyal* | |
6:30 pm The House Next to The Factory Sonal Kohli* with Kiran Manral* | |||
7:00 pm The Coward & The Sword: An Actor writes for Children Jugal Hansraj* with Ruchi Shah | |||
* Indicates that the speaker will be participating at the Festival via Zoom – All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. – All sessions are at the venue only and there will be no live streaming. Video recordings will be available on the Festival’s YouTube channel at a later date. |
Day 2 | Sun | 19 Dec
Auditorium - Ground Floor | Hall - I Floor | Gallery - II Floor | Board Room - II Floor |
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10:00 am Revisiting The Educational Heritage Of India Sahana Singh and Mohandas Pai with Vikram Limsay | 10:00 am System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot Mehran Sahami* with Rahul Matthan* | ||
10:15 am Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb* with Shrabonti Bagchi | |||
10:30 am Pilani Pioneers Sandhya Prakash and TP Pratap with Durjai Sethi | |||
11:00 am Main Shayar Toh Nahin: Poetry in Indian Cinema Rajiv Vijayakar and VAK Ranga Rao with Manasi Prasad | 11:00 am Orenda: Flash Fiction Based in Modern India Shalaka Kulkarni with Tony V Francis | ||
11:15 am War Minus the Shooting Siddhartha Vaidyanathan* with Sharda Ugra | 11:15 am The Dream of Revolution Sujata Prasad* with Syeda Hameed* | ||
11:30 am ಕತೆಯೆಂಬುದು ಆತ್ಮಕತೆಯೂ ಹೌದು | A Story is Also An Autobiography Jogi and GN Mohan | |||
12:00 noon Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature Shashi Deshpande with Indira Chandrashekhar | 12:00 noon The Big Short: Big Idea, Short Stories Humra Quraishi*, Jahnavi Barua, Vasudhendra with Gita Aravamudan | 12:00 noon The Hand of Destiny Srividya Srinivasan with Aparajith Dinesh | 12:00 noon Arebashe: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Seetharama Kevala* and Vishwanatha Badikana* |
12:30 pm Bangalored Gayatri Chandrasekharan with Anil Abraham | 12:30 pm Havyaka Kannada: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Taltaje Vasanthakumara* and Padekallu Vishnu Bhatta* | ||
12:45 pm Ramsy on the New Track Ramya Sreedhar | 12:45 pm Shamal Days Sabin Iqbal with Nisha Susan* | ||
1:00 pm The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State Josy Joseph with Nitin Pai | 1:00 pm The Search Sajita Nair with Andaleeb Wajid | 1:00 pm AMA with Sharda Ugra | |
1:15 pm By My Own Rules Ma Anand Sheela* with Tony V Francis | |||
1:30 pm Elle Illada Kalpane | ಎಲ್ಲೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಕಲ್ಪನೆ : Fiction Without Boundaries Shantala Anil and Vittal Shenoy | |||
1:45 pm Mercy David Baldacci* with Ashwin Sanghi* | |||
2:00 pm Nayika: Women of Myth and Mystery Anuja Chandramouli, Kavita Kane*, Koral Dasgupta* with Nilanjan P. Choudhury | 2:00 pm Beary - The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka N A Mahamed Ismail and B M Haneef | 2:00 pm Smash! The Rise of Indian Badminton Benedict Paramanand with Sharda Ugra | |
2:15 pm Rumours of Spring Farah Bashir* with Dolly Kikon* | |||
2:30 pm Kundapura Kannada: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Panju Ganguli, S A Krishnaiah and Susheela Punitha | 2:30 pm The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback Yashaswini Chandra with Dipti Nair | ||
3:00 pm Into the Mind of the Biographer Debashish Mukerji, Rajiv Vijayakar and Sugata Srinivasaraju with Samanth Subramanian | 3:00 pm Radiant Fugitives Nawaaz Ahmed with Andaleeb Wajid | 3:00 pm Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman* with Keshava Guha* | |
3:15 pm Navayati: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Syed Zameerulla Sharif and Syed Ghouse | |||
3:30 pm Money Wise: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth Deepak Shenoy with Pavan Srinath | |||
3:45 pm Sanketi: The Many Language Worlds of Karnataka Deepa Ganesh | |||
4:00 pm What The Heck Do I Do With My Life? Ravi Venkatesan with Srikrishna Ramamoorthy | 4:00 pm Covid Baggage: The Emotional and The Physical Narendra Chirmule and Samir Parikh with Subodh Sankar | 4:00 pm Feminist Adventures in History Bee Rowlatt* with Amrita Tripathi* | |
4:15 pm The Language of Grief AT Boyle*, Brendan Cormier*, Nandini Murali, Stutee Ghosh* with Dipti Nair | |||
4:30 pm AMA with Josy Joseph | |||
4:45 pm JBS Haldane: Radical Science and Restless Politics Samanth Subramanian with Jahnavi Phalkey | 4:45 pm The Book of Hope: The Better India Dhimant Parekh, Sandeep Farias and Poonam Kasturi | ||
5:30 pm Whole Numbers and Half Truths Rukmini S with Sudipto Mondal and Samar Halarnkar | 5:30 pm Remo: A Life in Words Remo Fernandes* with Vasundhara Das | 5:30 pm Chennai: A Biography V. Sriram with Sadhana Rao | 5:30 pm The Return of the Brahmin Ravi Shankar Etteth* with Nandita Bose |
6:00 pm Onam in a Nightie Anjana Menon with Sajita Nair | |||
6:15 pm Featuring Jeet Reading by Jeet Thayil | 6:15 pm Hare Marked Moon David Lascelles* with Geetha Upadhyaya* | ||
6:30 pm Family Matters: Writing on Relationships Claire Fuller*, Nawaaz Ahmed, Sabrina Janesch*, Eman Quotah* with Sabin Iqbal | |||
7:00 pm Lahore Manreet Sodhi Someshwar* with Preeti Gill* | |||
* Indicates that the speaker will be participating at the Festival via Zoom – All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates. – All sessions are at the venue only and there will be no live streaming. Video recordings will be available on the Festival’s YouTube channel at a later date. |