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 | |||||
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.
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)
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