Chaitanya Srivastava - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Sessions

Day 1
11:00 am
Bookstore Mezzanine

LitMart Pitches

Jury: Ameena Hussein, Arunava Sinha, Chaitanya Srivastava, Deepthi Talwar, Himanjali Sankar, Karthik Venkatesh, Kanishka Gupta, Meenakshi Singh, Sayantan Ghosh, Rashmi Menon

Day 1
4:00 pm
Open Cell

Lifequake

Tarini Mohan with Chaitanya Srivastava

Day 2
5:45 pm
Left Barrack

Not All Who Wander are Lost: Writing Identities

Kazim Ali, Rani Neutill, Thammika Songkaeo with Chaitanya Srivastava

Bio

Chaitanya Srivastava is a communications and PR strategist currently looking after marketing at Bloomsbury Publishing. Previously, he led publicity and marketing at Penguin Random House Southeast Asia, where he blended traditional publicity with digital storytelling to champion award-winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed authors. His campaigns have won awards from the Singapore Book Publishers Association in both 2024 and 2025. Outside publishing, Chaitanya writes on books, culture, and lifestyle for Scroll India, Esquire, Elle, and The Federal.