Schedule - Bangalore Literature Festival 2022

Day 1 | Sat | 3 Dec

#blrlitfest Venues
Gandhada Gudi
(Lawnside)
Raajakumara
(Poolside)
Yuvaratna
(Tennis Court)
The Red Couch
(Courtside)
Seonee
(Lalit Gardens)
Malgudi
(Lalit Gardens)
10:00 am
Why We Travel
Pico Iyer
10:00 am
The Wishing Tree
Amar Chitra Katha (5y+)
10:00 am
Tales from the World
Geeta Ramanujam (8y+)
10:15 am
தமிழ் Crossings
Mini Krishnan, AJ Thomas, Gita Ramaswamy and VS Sreedhara
10:30 am
रेत समाधि से Tomb of Sand तक
Geetanjali Shree with Anukrti Upadhyay and Arunava Sinha
10:30 am
The Many Lives of Capt. CP Krishnan Nair
Bachi Karkaria with Harish Bijoor
10:30 am
Sacred Games
Vikram Chandra with Anirudh Kanisetti
10:30 am
Adventures on the Magic Couch
Shilpa Rao (4y+)
10:30 am
Build a Story
Art Sparks (6y+)
11:00 am
The Education of Yuri
Jerry Pinto with Preeti Gill
11:00 am
Losing Home, Finding Home
Saaz Agarwal with Senthil Chengalvarayan
11:00 am
True Crime
V Sudarshan with Neena Gopal
11:00 am
My Puppets Come Alive to Create Magic
Vijayalakshmi Nagaraj (4y+)
11:00 am
Jumbo Gifts
Devika Cariapa (8y+)
11:15 am
Experiments with Living
Mallika Sarabhai with Ramjee Chandran
11:30 am
Poetry: Arebhashe, Beary, Konkani, Tulu
Smitha Amrithraj, Mohammed Kulai, Melvyn Rodrigues, Kathyayini Kunjibettu with Purushothama Bilimale
11:30 am
My Life in Publishing
David Davidar with Karthika VK
11:30 am
Going Solo: Raising Happy Kids
Sujata Parashar with Nandita Bose
11:30 am
Har Taraf Kabootar!
Alankrita Amaya (5y+)
11:30 am
Walking is a Way of Knowing
Madhuri Ramesh (10y+)
11:45 am
Brave the Elements: Nature as Setting
Allen C Jones, Rahman Abbas, Sumathy aka Thamizhachi Thangapandian with Deepti Navaratna
12 noon
Tejo Tungabhadra
Vasudhendra, Maithreyi Karnoor with Karthik Venkatesh
12 noon
It's a Punderful World
Vaidehi Murthy with Sriram Sullia
12 noon
Hakeem's Hiccups
Babakiki (6y+)
12 noon
Noon Chai and A Story
Adithi Rao (6y+)
12:15 pm
An Ecologically Sound Future: Which Way Forward?
Shekhar Pathak, Ullas Karanth with Mahesh Rangarajan
12:30 pm
Tales from Another Goa
Damodar Mauzo with Vivek Shanbhag
12:30 pm
The Many Avatars of Kalki Krishnamurthy
Gowri Ramnarayan
12:30 pm
Shadows of the Fragmented Moon
Shubhrangshu Roy with Nandita Bose
12:30 pm
Build a Story
Art Sparks (10y+)
12:30 pm
Mandala art on Canvas
Sujatha Srinivasan (4y+)
12:45 pm
Abacus of Loss: Performance Poetry
Sholeh Wolpe
1:00 pm
Humans of COVID
Barkha Dutt with Ramjee Chandran
1:00 pm
Mahakavi Bharathi
Rajkumar Bharathi and Niranjan Bharathi with Dharini Komal
1:00 pm
The Body by The Shore
Tabish Khair with Preeti Gill
1:00 pm
Ready, Steady: Theatre Games
Krishna Kashyap KV (8y+)
1:00 pm
Defeating the Portugese, Maharani Style!
Kavitha Mandana (12y+)
1:15 pm
ನೆನಪು ಅನಂತ: UR Ananthamurthy
Esther Ananthamurthy with Vanamala Viswanatha
1:30 pm
Chronicler of a Community
Cyrus Mistry with Anupama Bijur
1:30 pm
Magic Realism and Mythology
KR Meera with Nisha Susan
1:30 pm
History as if Ecology Mattered
Mahesh Rangarajan
1:30 pm
Hit Record: Podcasting for Kids
Piyush Agarwal (8y+)
1:30 pm
Verses and Colours
Lavanya Kapahi (6y+)
1:45 pm
Why The Mahatma Matters
Sudhir Chandra, Vinay Lal with Chandan Gowda
2:00 pm
281 and Beyond
VVS Laxman and R Kaushik with Sharda Ugra
2:00 pm
Owning the Narrative: Dalit Writing in Focus
P Sivakami, Vasantha Surya with Mini Krishnan
2:00 pm
The Opium Toffee
Khushwant Singh with Preeti Gill
2:00 pm
Rhyme and My Eyes
Sowmya R (6y+)
2:00 pm
Paati's Rasam
Dhwani Sabesh and Janaki Sabesh (5y+)
2:15 pm
The Half Known Life
Pico Iyer with David Davidar
2:30 pm
Economist Gandhi
Jaithirth Rao with Manish Sabharwal
2:30 pm
Rohzin
Rahman Abbas with Milee Ashwarya
2:30 pm
The Egghead Detective Agency
Pika Nani (6y+)
2:30 pm
History-onix
Sarita Nair (8y+)
2:45 pm
Verse Warriors
Jeet Thayil and Sohini Basak
3:00 pm
Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar
Rohini Nilekani with Manu Pillai
3:00 pm
The Writings of UVeSa - Social Media of 19th Century Tamil Nadu
Pradeep Chakravarthy with Sumathy aka Thamizhachi Thangapandian
3:00 pm
Mansur
Vikramajit Ram with Anirudh Kanisetti
3:00 pm
A Creative Kerfuffle: Fun with Word Games!
Nidhi Jaipuria (8y+)
3:00 pm
Mountain Spies and Saviours
Mala Kumar (8y+)
3:15 pm
The Age of Translation
Arunava Sinha, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, Sholeh Wolpe with Udayan Mitra
3:30 pm
The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
3:30 pm
The Journey of Sanketi: Life and Language
Deepa Ganesh and HS Ananthanarayana
3:30 pm
The Essentials Of Hinduism
Trilochan Sastry
3:30 pm
Abstraction to Art
Aparajitha Vaasudev (10y+)
3:30 pm
The Mighty Annapurna
Rohan Raman (4y+)
3:45 pm
The Dismantling of India
TJS George with Sashi Kumar
4:00 pm
Whodunit-Howdunit-Whydunit
Anita Nair, Harini Nagendra, Sally Breen, Vikram Chandra with Ranbir Sidhu
4:00 pm
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman
Gita Ramaswamy with Cynthia Stephen
4:00 pm
Sisterhood Economy
Shaili Chopra with Priya Ramani
4:00 pm
World's Youngest Historian
Zac Sangeeth (8y+)
4:00 pm
Children of the Hidden Land: Children in Conflict Zones
Mandira Shah (12y+)
4:15 pm
Publish and Perish?
Anna Solding, Kanishka Gupta, Rahul Soni, Ravi Deecee, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri with Subodh Sankar
4:30 pm
ನನ್ನ ಬೊಗಸೆಯ ಆಕಾಶ: An Autobiography
Veerappa Moily with BM Haneef
4:30 pm
Tagore’s University: A History of Visva-Bharati
Swati Ganguly
4:30 pm
Fun with Ramanujan = Skit + Jokes + Digits
Arundhati Venkatesh (10y+)
4:30 pm
The Great Escape
Menaka Raman and Sheena Deviah (6y+)
4:45 pm
Histories for the 21st Century
Anirudh Kanisetti, Pradeep Chakravarthy, Vikramajit Ram and Vinay Lal with Udayan Mitra
5:00 pm
Getting to Know Gandhi: A Biographer’s Journey
Ramachandra Guha
5:00 pm
Masala Memsahib
Karen Anand with Monika Manchanda
5:00 pm
Covid ಕರಿಡಬ್ಬಿ
Rajaram Tallur with Tina Shashikanth
MIDDLE TENT

1:30 pm and 5:00 pm
The Tiny Workshops
Kotyna Zylė and Greta Alice

All Day
Whale Tales
Arnab Chakravarty, Nikita Teresa Sarkar, Padmanabhan J, Sayak Shome and Uma Khardekar
5:30 pm
Her Story: The Personal and the Professional
Anita Bhogle, Aparna Piramal Raje with Milee Ashwarya
5:30 pm
The Female Cinematic Universe
Alankrita Shrivastava with Stutee Ghosh
5:30 pm
Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia's Big Cats
Ullas Karanth with PJ Dilip Kumar
5:45 pm
When Writers Teach Writing
Allen C Jones, Anita Nair, Saikat Majumdar, Tim Tomlinson with Sally Breen
6:00 pm
Against all Odds: The IT Story of India
Kris Gopalakrishnan, Krishnan Narayanan, N. Dayasindhu with Archana Rai
6:00 pm
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
P Sainath with Indu Prasad
6:00 pm
Unveiling Jazbaa
Aayush Puthran with Sharda Ugra
6:30 pm
Fresh off the Booker Stage
Shehan Karunatilaka with Jeet Thayil
6:30 pm
Portrait of a Life: Writing On People
Akshaya Mukul, Gautam Chikermane, Hindol Sengupta, Manu Pillai with Deepti Navaratna

6:30 pm
Long Scenic Route to Getting Published
Abhivyakti Singh, Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Meghna Pant with Kanishka Gupta
6:30 pm
Dastan-E-Himalaya
Shekhar Pathak
7:00 pm
Not Just Cricket: A Reporter's Journey
Pradeep Magazine with Prem Panicker
7:00 pm
Mapping of Indian States
Sanjeev Chopra
7:15 pm
The Sex Book
Leeza Mangaldas with Gayatri Gill
7:15 pm
Beyond the Big Screen
Shobu Yarlagadda with Ranjani Krishnakumar
7:30 pm
Finding Peace
Jill Mistry, Sumaa Tekur, Vasudev Murthy with Aruna Nambiar
7:30 pm
പട Pada
Kamal KM with Sabin Iqbal
7:45 pm
Holding a Mirror to Society
Barkha Dutt, P Sainath, Sashi Kumar with Bachi Karkaria
8:30 pm
Performance | Sufiyana
Mir Mukhtiyar Ali
– All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates.
– All authors will be at the bookstore (Grand Ballroom) for book signings after their sessions
– 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.
– Download the LitUp app for the schedule and AMA with speaker

Day 2 | Sun | 4 Dec

#blrlitfest Venues
Gandhada Gudi
(Lawnside)
Raajakumara
(Poolside)
Yuvaratna
(Tennis Court)
The Red Couch
(Courtside)
Seonee
(Lalit Gardens)
Malgudi
(Lalit Gardens)
10:00 am
Stories I Must Tell
Kabir Bedi with Karthika VK
10:00 am
The World of Cricket Writing
Pradeep Magazine, R. Kaushik, Sharda Ugra, Shehan Karunatilaka and Suresh Menon
10:00 am
Budhini
Sarah Joseph and Sangeetha Sreenivasan with AJ Thomas
10:00 am
Ask Me Anything with William Dalrymple
10:00 am
Once Upon a Paper! Storigami
Shubha Das (6y+)
10:00 am
A Kaleidoscope to Journalism
Shruthi Manjula Mohan (10y+)
10:30 am
Finding Oneself, Finding Expression
Ambai
10:30 am
Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya
Akshaya Mukul with Shrayana Bhattacharya
10:30 am
The Middle Finger
Saikat Majumdar with Surya HK
10:30 am
Dancing with Birds
Bulbul Sharma (6y+)
10:30 am
The Other Side
Inaya Gala with Aisiri Kudur (12y+)
10:45 am
How I Became a Writer
Manoranjan Byapari with Arunava Sinha
11:00 am
Akira, Shakya and the Grouchy Owl
Honey Irani, Farhan Akhtar, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri with Stutee Ghosh
11:00 am
Sing, Dance and Pray: The Inspirational Story of Srila Prabhupada
Hindol Sengupta with Karthik Venkatesh
11:00 am
Relationships Done Different
Rita Chhablani with Sumaa Tekur
11:00 am
Simply Nanju
Zainab Sulaiman (9y+)
11:00 am
It's Time to Rhyme
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan (8y+)
11:15 am
Stories of the True
B Jeyamohan with Priyamvada Ramkumar
11:30 am
Reading Sri Aurobindo
Gautam Chikermane with Hindol Sengupta
11:30 am
Andal's Garland
Helen Burns with Mani Rao
11:30 am
Magic with Mudras
Poornima Kaushik (6y+)
11:45 am
On My Own: Feminism and Finance
Anukrti Upadhyay, Aruna Nambiar, Meghna Pant, Shaili Chopra, Shrayana Bhattacharya with Harish Bijoor
11:45 am
The Magic of The Lost Story
Sudha Murty with Manu Pillai
12 noon
Adil Shahi Chronicles
Krishna Kolhar Kulkarni with Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
12 noon
Pashtuns: A Contested Legacy
Tilak Devasher with PS Raghavan
12 noon
The World of Musical Instruments
Krithika Sreenivasan (6y+)
12 noon
The Chronicles of the Crimson One
Preetha Vasan with Aparna Jaishankar (10y+)
12:15 pm
Sum of All Arts
Alka Pande, Helder Beja, Saskia Rao-de Haas with Sadhana Rao
12:30 pm
Method in The Madness: Writers Tell All
Cyrus Mistry, KR Meera, Manu Joseph, Tabish Khair, Vikram Chandra with Karthika VK
12:30 pm
The Book of Dog
Arunava Sinha, Bulbul Sharma, Jerry Pinto and Hemali Sodhi
12:30 pm
Languaging in the Digital Era
Sashi Kumar
12:30 pm
Bookworms and Jellybellies
Ranjani Rao and Ruchira Ramanujam (4y+)
12:30 pm
Lesser Known Life of Amar Chitra Katha
Reena Puri and Ritoparna Hazra (10y+)
1:00 pm
ಗಮಕ: Bringing Alive Kannada Epics
Gangamma Keshavamurthy with Shantha Nagamangala
1:00 pm
Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas
Satyarth Nayak with Vasudhendra
1:00 pm
Whose Samosa is it Anyway?
Sonal Ved with Manu Chandra
1:00 pm
The Amar Chitra Katha Quiz
1:00 pm
Creating Creatures: A Drawing Session
Labonie Roy (7y+)
1:15 pm
Bolly-Molly-Tolly-Sandal Wood
Alankrita Shrivastava, Kamal KM, Natesh Hegde, Shobu Yarlagadda with Kaveree Bamzai
1:30 pm
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh
Shrayana Bhattacharya with Shrabonti Bagchi
1:30 pm
The Trial of The Maharaja
Debleena Majumdar with Sayantan Ghosh
1:30 pm
Bangalore Tales Through Postcards
Aparna Jaishankar, Meera Iyer and PeeVee
1:30 pm
Debbie G and Misfit Madhu: Alternate Careers
Divya Anand and Vibha Batra (10y+)
1:45 pm
ಹೊಸ ಬರಹ: Kannada Writing Today
Moulya Swamy, Musthafa KH, Shridevi Kalasad with Vivek Shanbhag
2:00 pm
Awakening the Blue Tiger
Sunil Chhetri, Gaurav Gala, Kunaal Majgaonkar, Neel Shah with Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri
2:00 pm
Why Don't You Write Something I Might Read?
Suresh Menon with Arshia Sattar
2:00 pm
Destiny's Child
Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat with Prem Rao
2:15 pm
The Mighty Annapurna
Rohan Raman (4y+)
2:15 pm
What Children Could be Reading
Bijal Vachcharajani, Aashti Mudnani, Aparna Kapur and Maithili Doshi (12y+)

2:30 pm
ನಡುವೆ ಸುಳಿವ ಹೆಣ್ಣು: This Is My Story
B Manjamma Jogati with Arun Joladakudligi
2:30 pm
Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood
Balaji Vittal with Kaveree Bamzai
2:30 pm
Dark Star
Ranbir Sidhu with Nirmala Govindajan
2:45 pm
Insatiable
Shobhaa De with Surya HK
2:45 pm
The First Magic Trick
Priyanka Agarwal Mehta (4y+)
3:00 pm
India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation
J Sai Deepak with Prasanna Viswanathan
3:00 pm
The Great Tech Game
Anirudh Suri
3:00 pm
Look Ma, No Hands: Story of a Real Life Superhero!
Vikram Agnihotri (10y+)
3:15 pm
The Flavour Files
Karen Anand, Nandita Iyer, Roshni Bajaj Sanghvi and Sonal Ved
3:15 pm
Poetry is a Language
AJ Thomas, Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Prathibha Nandakumar, Sohini Basak
3:15 pm
Where History Meets Mystery
Vani Mahesh (10y+)
3:30 pm
Translation and Creativity in Indian Literatures and Theatre
HS Shivaprakash
3:30 pm
Ask Me Anything with Manu Joseph
3:30 pm
Living with Nature
Honey Irani (6y+)


3:45 pm
Kitten Trouble
Bijal Vachharajani and Rajiv Eipe (6y+)

4:00 pm
Writing Across Cultures
Christopher Kloeble, Helder Beja, Helen Burns with Anna Solding
4:00 pm
Cubbon Park: The Green Heart of Bengaluru
Roopa Pai with Harini Nagendra
4:00 pm
The Maverick Maharaja
Deepti Navaratna and Yaduveer Wadiyar
4:00 pm
Bhuta Worship in Dakshina Kannada
Indira Hegde and Purushothama Bilimale
4:15 pm
Fun with Children Writers
Abhinav Dileep, Khushi Deepak, Punya Reddy with Aparna Raman (10y+)
4:30 pm
Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty
Mani Rao and Karuna Sivasailam ft. Ramkrishnan Sathyapal
4:30 pm
Love in the Lockdown
Gayatri Gill, Shobhaa De with Anupama Bijur
4:30 pm
Rethink Ageing
Nidhi Chawla and Reshmi Chakraborty
4:30 pm
Hishtory Dishtory
Ranjani Rao and Ruchira Ramanujam (8y+)
4:45 pm
Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize Awards
5:00 pm
Young and Single in the City
Ajanta De, Meghana Srinivas, Varun Sadana with Malini Goyal
5:00 pm
Lift Off
Hema Hattangady and Ashish Sen with Nirmala Govindarajan
5:00 pm
The Colony of Shadows
Bikram Sharma with Sonali Jindal
5:00 pm
Ventriloquism
Indushree Raveendra (4y+)
5:15 pm
Open Book
Kubbra Sait with Stutee Ghosh
5:30 pm
Medieval Kannada Literature: A Reader
CN Ramachandran
5:30 pm
Lords of the Deccan
Anirudh Kanisetti with Vikramajit Ram
MIDDLE TENT

11:00 am and 4:00 pm
The Tiny Workshops
Kotyna Zylė and Greta Alice

All Day
Whale Tales
Arnab Chakravarty, Nikita Teresa Sarkar, Padmanabhan J, Sayak Shome and Uma Khardekar
5:45 pm
The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy
Kafeel Khan with Ravi Joshi
5:45 pm
Baby Shoes, Never Worn: Keeping it Short
Bulbul Sharma, Ranbir Sidhu, Tim Tomlinson, Vasudhendra with Karthik Venkatesh
6:00 pm
Puneeth Rajkumar: ಮುಗ್ಧ ನಗುವೊಂದರ ಕಣ್ಮರೆ
AS Prabhakar with K Puttaswamy
6:00 pm
Undertow
Jahnavi Barua with Subodh Sankar
6:15 pm
ಪ್ರೀತಿಯಿಂದ ರಮೇಶ್
Ramesh Aravind with Vani Mahesh
6:30 pm
Daak to Lahore
Amy Singh, introduced by Preeti Gill
6:30 pm
BWW Bangalore Anthology
Bhumika Anand, Lara C Caldwell, Prateek Nigam, Rosemary Thomas and Trevor Louw
6:30 pm
Eid Ka Chand
Pasha Bhai with Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
6:45 pm
India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma
Manu Pillai with Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
7:00 pm
Shaolin: How to Win Without Fighting
Bernhard Moestl
7:00 pm
Queeristan: Towards Inclusive Workplaces
Parmesh Sahani with Shrabonti Bagchi
7:15 pm
The Company Quartet
William Dalrymple with Alka Pande
7:45 pm
Decoloniality in the Realm of Law and Policy Making
J Sai Deepak with Kaveree Bamzai
– All sessions will start and end on time. Schedule subject to change. Please check back periodically for updates.
– All authors will be at the bookstore (Grand Ballroom) for book signings after their sessions
– 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.
– Download the LitUp app for the schedule and AMA with speaker

Day 1
8:30 pm
Raajakumara

Performance | Sufiyana

Mukhtiyar Ali, Rakesh Kumar, Gulam Hasan, Dayam Ali, Ali Sher

 

Mukhtiyar Ali is a renowned folk singer from Rajasthan, India. He traces his lineage to the Mirasis, a nomadic community, who have been the traditional carriers of the oral tradition of Sufiyana Kalam. Mukhtiyar blends Rajasthani folk idiom with refined classicism to sing the poetry of Kabir, Mira and Sufi poets.

10:00 am – 8:30 pm

BeFantastic.in

 

BeFantastic is a TechArt platform that collaborates with a thriving international community of creators and professionals to explore the boundaries of technology and the arts. Following its inception in 2017 with Bengaluru Fantastic — the city’s first TechArt festival in a public space — they’re back with a pop-up at digital #blrlitfest!

Showcasing two engaging interactive pieces, ‘between.today’ and ‘Whale Tales’, they’re gearing up to host India’s first AI and Arts festival contemplating climate change at Namma Bengaluru in March of 2023.


between.today

between.today pays homage to the 75th year of Indian Independence by resurrecting the artistic language of the vintage through advanced Deep Learning AI systems. It inserts its audiences into a frame with the legendary, in a style reminiscent of the yesteryear artists who created them. It is a reminder of how the past informs the  present, and how progress, technological or otherwise, continues to stand on the foundations built by our forebears.

Artists: Archana Prasad (India), Hasan S (India) and Sean Blagsvedt (India)


Whale Tales

An immersive audio visual narrative experience, co-written with AI, highlighting carbon sequestration of whales through empathetic game play, using real life whales as main characters.

Artists: Arnab Chakravarty (USA), Nikita Teresa Sarkar (India), Padmanabhan J (India), Sayak
Shome (India) & Uma Khardekar (India)

10:00 am – 8:30 pm
The Grand Ballroom

Bookstore

 

Meet your favourite authors and get books signed by them at our buzzing festival bookstore located at the Grand Ballroom of the hotel. The bookstore will also have an exclusive children’s section. All authors will be at the bookstore for book signings after their sessions.

Bookstore Partner

ScreenLit Pitches

Jury: Alankrita Shrivastava, Kamal KM, Kaveree Bamzai, Natesh Hegde, Ranjani Krishnakumar, Shobu Yarlagadda and Stutee Ghosh