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12th Edition | 2023
December 2-3
The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru
The left wing was over-crowded to find an answer to one big question “Who does the writer write for?” Four authors from diverse background and who write in different genres gave the answer to this big question in their own …
The protagonist of any book is whom the readers root for. Creating this protagonist can be a mammoth task. This writers’ panel discussion moderated by Manju Jaidka revolved around this while talking about the panelists’ own experience in creating protagonists.…
We have all heard about short stories. What, then, are short short stories? To answer this, Kulpreet Yadav, who is a bestselling author, motivational speaker and founder-editor of Open Road Review, an international literary magazine, says that these stories have …
This was by far one of the most highly anticipated sessions of BLF, and rightly so. It was full house before it started, and by the time it began in full swing, there were cheers and applause searing the atmosphere.…
Dr. Shatavadhani R Ganesh, a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages began the session by saying that it’s very heartening to attend and moderate a …
There are few things that have the capacity to bind a nation together, and bridge boundaries drawn by religion, caste, education level, social class, status, power, you name it. Cinema is one of them. It’s a beautiful blanket woven in …
