Schedule - Bangalore Literature Festival 2021

Day 1 | Sat | 18 Dec

Auditorium - Ground FloorHall - I FloorGallery - II FloorBoard Room - II Floor
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 FloorHall - I FloorGallery - II FloorBoard Room - II Floor
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.