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10:15 am - 11:05 am | Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh Shrayana Bhattacharya in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
11:10 am - 12:10 pm | Nostalgia for the Future An Illustrated Lecture Avijit Mukul |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Break |
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm | This Kind of Child: The 'Disability' Story K. Srilata in conversation with Ramya Kannan |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Sports Writing in a Digital Age Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor in conversation with K.C. Vijaya Kumar |
3:05 pm - 4:05 pm | O.V. Vijayan's Kazakh: A Theatrical Journey Deepan Sivaraman and Abhilash Pillai in conversation |
4:05 pm - 4:15 pm | Break |
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm | Linguistic Challenge: Editing and Marketing Translations Mini Krishnan, Prabha Sridevan and D.I. Aravindan in conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan |
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Dear Omana: Notes on How To Be A Literary Sensation play by Krishna Shastri Devulapalli, directed by Nikhila Kesavan |
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Inaugural address by N.Ravi, Chairman, Kasturi & Sons, Publisher, The Hindu Group |
Welcome address by Dr.Nirmala Lakshman, Festival Director, The Hindu Lit For Life and Director, The Hindu Group |
My Life in Full: Work, Family, And Our Future. Indra Nooyi in conversation with Vinay Kamath |
Shashi & Sashi: Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Sashi Kumar on Life, Literature, Language and Politics |
Junglenama: A Story For Our Times: Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Somak Ghoshal |
Making India Work Arun Shourie in conversation with N Ravi |
A Viral World - Why Viruses Are Necessary: Pranay Lal in conversation with Ramya Kannan |
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Address by L.V.Navaneeth, CEO, The Hindu Group |
Special Message: Suresh Nambath, Editor, The Hindu |
Lessons Of The Pandemic: Dr.Gagandeep Kang, Dr.Srinath Reddy, and Prof.Arun Kumar in conversation with Kamini Mahadevan |
This is My Story: Sudha Kongara in conversation with Chitra Mahesh |
Sense Smell Touch- Collaborating in Theatre Making: Anuradha Kapur and Deepan Sivaraman in conversation |
The Song of Draupadi: Ira Mukhoty in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan |
In the Wild- Conversations about Conservation: Neha Sinha and Sanjay Gubbi in conversation with Mahesh Rangarajan |
Reclaiming Gandhi: Subodh Kerkar |
Mind Matters- An exploration of lifespan mental health in COVID-19: Dr.Pratima Murthy, Dr.Shekhar Seshadri, and Dr.Soumitra Pathare in conversation with Dr. Ennapadam S.Krishnamoorthy |
Running Towards Mystery: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with N.Ravi (LIVE) |
Vote of thanks by Suresh Balakrishna, CRO, The Hindu Group |
2019 Elections and the Future of Indian Democracy Arun Shourie, N Ram, Priya Sahgal and R Jagannathan in conversation with Sanjay Pinto |
Gulzar on Gulzar Meghna Gulzar in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
The Handler of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket in conversation with Rosella Stephen |
Shaping the New World Order Husain Haqqani, James Crabtree, John Keay and Suki Kim in conversation with Sashi Kumar |
Governance A Responsibility C Mahendran, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, S Peter Alphonse and Thol Thirumavalavan in conversation with S Sarthigaichelvan (Tamil) |
Making India Work Arun Shourie in conversation with N Ravi |
The Myth and Reality of Emperor Aurangzeb: An Illustrated lecture by Audrey Truschke |
Second Act Manisha Koirala in conversation with Dr Sheela Nambiar |
Her Music Her Life: A centenary tribute to DK Pattammal Conceptualised, scripted and narrated by Gowri Ramnarayan Featuring Akhila Ramnarayan, Nisha Rajagopal and Yohan Chacko |
Beyond Indian English: A time for bhashas J Devika, Kannan Sundaram and Vivek Shanbhag in conversation with Urvashi Butalia |
The Real and the Mystique: Unravelling the hidden layers Vaasanthi and Yasser Usman in conversation |
Being the Other Farahnaz Ispahani, Nandini Krishnan and Nazia Erum in conversation with Kalpana Sharma |
Illustrating Children's Books Anushka Ravishankar, Lisa Brown and Shobha Viswanath in conversation with Sandhya Rao |
Mothering A Muslim Nazia Erum in conversation with Arunava Sinha |
The Journey of a Southern Feminist Devaki Jain in conversation with Kalpana Sharma |
Fetters on Creative Expression: Art and the politics of dissent: Chandan Gowda, Githa Hariharan and TM Krishna in conversation with Kamini Mahadevan |
Homage to N Muthuswamy: Memories and Rememberances Dhalavai Sundaram, Gnana Rajasekaran and Vinodhini Vaidyanathan in conversation with Pralayan (Tamil) |
Bombay Dreams: Shweta Bachchan Nanda in conversation with Parvathi Nayar |
No Cause For Shame: Talking frankly about mental illlness Dr Samir Parikh in conversation with Dr Vijay Nagaswami |
The Literature of Myth: Using Myths and Legends in Contemporary Storytelling Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni, Ravi Shankar Etteth and Sharanya Manivannan in conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris |
Inspirations: Art and music Aruna Sairam and VV Ramani in conversation with Sushila Ravindranath |
Words of Now, Words of Memory: Poetry of disappearing landscapes Jacinta Kerketta and Nighat Sahiba in conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan |
The Short Story of a Lifetime Aamer Hussein in conversation with Ziya us Salam |
Embrace our Rivers: Public Art and Ecology in India Helmut Schippert, Mukund Padmanabhan, Parvathi Nayar and Ravi Agarwal in conversation with TM Krishna |
Suki Speaks: A cartoon character shares her journey An illustrated talk by Manjula Padmanabhan |
Exiled at Home: Women and lesbians in no 'man's' land Lara Fergus and Susan Hawthorne in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
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Performance by Children of the Sunshine Orchestra, a project of the AR Rahman Foundation |
The Changing Face of India The Changing Face of India Arun Kumar, Gurmehar Kaur, Nidhi Razdan and Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with G Sampath |
The Corrupt Society: Investigating Scams and Black Money The Corrupt Society: Investigating Scams and Black Money Arun Kumar and N Ram in conversation with Rajiv Lochan |
The Founding Fathers and the Relevance of the Mahatma Today Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with David Davidar |
The Price of Freedom Taslima Nasrin in conversation with Suhasini Haider |
An Unsuitable Boy Karan Johar in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Beyond Runs & Wickets: The Great Indian Cricket Story K Srikkanth, N Ram and Rajdeep Sardesai in conversation with Suresh Menon |
Why is India's Secular Nationalism Under Attack? Ananya Vajpeyi, Manu Joseph, Prayaag Akbar and Swapan Dasgupta in conversation with Malini Parthasarathy |
Nude: Poems Vishal Bhardwaj in conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris |
Is the India Our Constitution Envisaged under Challenge? Sitaram Yechury in conversation with Sashi Kumar |
Women of Steel: Indira Gandhi and J Jayalalitha Sagarika Ghose and Vaasanthi in conversation with Sushila Ravindranath |
The Great Escape: A North Korean Defector's Story Hyeonseo Lee in conversation with Kelly Falconer |
Blitzed: Talking about Drugs in the Third Reich Norman Ohler in conversation with AS Panneerselvan |
The Asian Century Peter Frankopan, Srinath Raghavan and Victor Mallet in conversation with Josy Joseph |
Pounce & Prejudice: The LFL Quiz on Books (Prelims) |
Of Saints and Sinners Jeet Thayil in conversation with Tishani Doshi |
Narratives of War John Boyne and Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Indica: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent An illustrated talk by Pranay Lal |
Survival Strategies for the Literary Novel Manu Joseph, KR Meera and Pierre Ducrozet in conversation with Mini Kapoor Note: Heidi Julavits did not turn up |
Taste of Sangam: Culinary Journeys into the Past Chef Praveen Anand and Rakesh Raghunathan in conversation with Pradeep Chakravarthy |
Storyteller's World KR Meera in conversation with Mini Krishnan |
How noir is the new Tamil writing? And Why? Lakshmi Saravanakumar in conversation with Saravanan Chandran |
How representative are books for children? Sandhya Rao and Shailaja Menon in conversation with Radhika Menon |
Navigate to the North: Chennai, Whose City? J Gowthaman Sanna in conversation with Karan Karki |
Pounce & Prejudice: The LFL Quiz on Books (Finals) |
Workshop: Word Building in Fiction by Claire Scobie |
Workshop: Parenting Secrets by Nandini Raman |
Children's Fest Science in Action Science in Action by Harsha Atri |
Children's Fest Fun with Figures by Meena Naik |
Children's Fest Tall Tales by Geeta Ramanujam |
Children's Fest Magic Potions by Harsha Atri |
Children's Fest Hear Me Roar by Chetan Sharma |
Freedom to Dissent Chandan Gowda, Hyeonseo Lee, Sadaf Saaz, TM Krishna and Teesta Setalvad in conversation with N Ravi |
Stories of Partition Gulzar in conversation with Shantanu Chaudhuri |
Eastern Sunrise: A New History of the World An illustrated lecture by Peter Frankopan |
The Writer in Striped Pyjamas John Boyne in conversation with Anoushka Ravishankar |
New Fiction Readings and Conversations Amitava Kumar and Janice Pariat in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Awards ceremony: The Hindu Prize 2017, The Hindu Tamil Lifetime Achievement Award, The Hindu Young World Goodbooks Awards |
Listen to the Flames: A Discussion on Dalit Literature Bama, Sambaiah Gundimeda and Sharankumar Limbale in conversation with Mini Krishnan |
Seventy ... and to Hell With It Shobhaa De in conversation with Vidya Singh |
In Pursuit of Evil: The Inside Story of How Veerappan and Osama bin Laden were killed K Vijay Kumar and Adrian Levy in conversation with Sanjay Pinto |
New Ideas of Feminism Gurmehar Kaur, Natasha Badhwar and Swati Chaturvedi in conversation with Ammu Joseph |
A River Runs Through It: The Ganges and India's Future Victor Mallet in conversation with Suhasini Haidar |
Readings and Conversations The Hindu Prize 2017 Moderated by Akhila Krishnamurthy |
How to Create an Innovative India Kiran Karnik in conversation with Suresh Seshadri |
India's War: The Second World War Through Indian Eyes Srinath Raghavan in conversation with Josy Joseph |
In the Zone: Talking about On Form Mike Brearely in conversation with Suresh Menon |
Right to Land, Right to Life Jignesh Mevani in conversation with Chandan Gowda |
Reading Ramanujan SG Vasudev, Arshia Sattar in conversation with Vivek Shanbhag |
Music to Freedom: Musicians and Music during the Freedom struggle Arimalam Padmanabhan in conversation with V Sriram |
Light the Fire: Poetry of Resistance, Poetry of Life C Swarooparani and Prema Revathi in conversation with V Geetha |
Not Story Boards But Telling Pictures Larissa Bertonasco, Ludmilla Bartscht and Priya Kurian in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Walking the Tightrope: How Imaginative are Children's Writers and Illustrators? Malavika Nataraj and Chetan Sharma in conversation with Anu Majumdar |
Resurgence: Independent Bookstores are Here to Stay? Divya Kapur, Raman Shresta and Vidya Virkar in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan |
Don't disturb the dead: The story of the Ramsay Brothers Shamya Dasgupta in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Homage Ashokamitran: Premiere of Prasanna Ramaswamy's film on the renowned Tamil writer |
Workshop: Writing your reality by Paro Anand |
The Hindu LFL Children's Fest Let's Get Dramatic by Amelio |
The Hindu LFL Children's Fest Short Tales by Geeta Ramanujam |
The Hindu LFL Children's Fest Let's Make Marionettes by Meena Naik |
The Hindu LFL Children's Fest Train your brain by Brighter Minds |
The Hindu LFL Children's Fest That Can't be True by Chetan Sharma |
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The Age of Cowardice and the Violence of Trolling Gurmehar Kaur, Swati Chaturvedi and Teesta Setalvad in conversation with Narayan Lakshman |
The Role of the Novelist Beyond Fiction Amitava Kumar, Prayaag Akbar and Robert Dessaix in conversation with Mini Kapoor Note: Heidi Julavits did not come |
Showcasing theatre: Do festivals serve theatre? Arundhathi Nag, Nissar Allana and Santanu Bose in conversation with Mukund Padmanabhan |
The Write Stuff Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Janice Pariat |
The Face of Terror Adrian Levy and S Hussain Zaidi in conversation with Mukund Padmanabhan |
Subodh Kerkar's Land Art The artist in conversation with Tehzeeb Katari |
Beyond the Dream Girl Hema Malini in conversation with Ram Kamal Mukherjee |
Whose History is it Anyway?: On claiming and reclaiming heritage V Sriram and Kombai S Anwar in conversation with Chithra Madhavan |
Utopian Realities: Looking at Auroville at 50 and changing living spaces Akash Kapur, Anu Majumdar, Rajni Bakshi and Raphael Gastabois in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Political Correctness: Too much or too little in children's writing? Anushka Ravishankar, John Boyne and Paro Anand in conversation with Vidya Mani |
The Good Mother Natasha Badhwar and Shobhaa De in conversation with Rosella Stephen |
The Poet in Society Tishani Doshi, Jeet Thayil and Sadaf Saaz in conversation with K Srilata |
Not Drowning, Waving: On Love, Leisure and Life Robert Dessaix in conversation with Timeri N Murari |
Looking South: Eye on the Coromandel Charles Allen in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy |
Chest of Memories, Lines of Recovery, Colours of Healing T Sanathanan in conversation with AS Panneerselvan |
Imayam's Women: Who are they? Imayam in conversation with Dr R Azhagarasan (Tamil) |
Listen to my story: voice of the independent publisher Claire Scobie, Kelly Falconer, Margrete Lamond, Sam Cooney and Terri-ann White in conversation with Kamini Mahadevan |
Miss Laila Armed and Dangerous Manu Joseph in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Floating Words Across the Frontiers: Anchorages and Departures Anita Thampi, Mamta Sagar and Nia Davies in conversation |
Documentary Films: Provocateur for change K Stalin in conversation with RV Ramani |
Rewire your brain by Brighter Minds (9-12) |
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Session 1: Remembering Chandralekha Sadanand Menon and Tishani Doshi in conversation with Sashi Kumar |
Session 2: An Era of Darkness Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan |
Session 3: Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan |
Session 4: Gandhi: A Name, A Life, My World GN Devy and Gulammohammed Sheikh in conversation with Amandeep Sandhu |
Session 5: The Age of Trump Geraldine Brooks, Mark Kurlansky, Molly Crabapple, Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz, Talia Kurlansky in conversation with Narayan Lakshman |
Session 6: A Nation and its Discontents Akshaya Mukul, Josy Joseph, Sanjaya Baru, Somini Sengupta in conversation with Rajiv Lochan |
Session 7: Love in India Durjoy Datta, Preeti Shenoy and Ravinder Singh in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Session 1: International Night: A father and daughter cook their way around the world Mark Kurlanksy and Talia Kurlansky in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan |
Session 2: The Road Not Taken Salil Tripathi in conversation with David Davidar |
Session 3: The Memory Keepers Aanchal Malhotra, Anusha Yadav and Kishwar Desai in conversation with Sandhya Rao |
Session 4: Global Connections: Literary Festivals and Publishing Cate Blake, Edwina Johnson, Fiona Henderson, Laura Kroetesch and Wendy Were in conversation with Parvathi Nayar |
Session 5: Translation Matters Arunava Sinha, Subashree Krishnaswamy and Vivek Shanbhag in conversation with Mini Krishnan |
Session 6: Art of the Tale Amruta Patil and Molly Crabapple in conversation with Karthika VK |
Session 7: Word: An Empowering Tool Maria Reimondez and Sukirtharani in conversation with Suseela Anand |
Session 8: Notes and Maps of My Singing Aruna Sairam in conversation with V Sriram |
Session 1: Writing with Freedom, Writing With Market N Manu Chakravarthy, Shafey Kidwai, AS Panneerselvan, K Satchidanandan in conversation with Paul Zacharia |
Session 2: Norwegian Mood Brit Bildeon and Kannan Sundaram in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Session 3: Women Word Imaging: A HERstory Anupama Chandra, Uma Tanuku and Urvashi Butalia in conversation with Kalpana K |
Session 4: Punjab: The unknown narrative Amandeep Sandhu in conversation with Prema Revathi |
Session 5: Playing Stories Kirti Jain and C Basavalingaiah in conversation with Pralayan |
Crystal Healing by Bindu Maira |
Five Faces of Translations by Mini Krishnan |
Appreciating Sculptural Traditions of India by Chithra Madhavan |
Have fun with stories by Vikram Sridhar |
The Never Ending Story by Andaleeb Wajid |
Let's Make a Story by Vikram Sridhar |
Stories on Stage: Forum Theatre and Conflict Resolution by Crea Shakthi |
Crazy Characters by Vinayak Varma |
Jungle Books by Arefa Tehsin |
Session 1: Sol Isai Porul Vairamuthu in conversation with Thamizhachi Thangapandian |
Session 2: Rebooting the Indian Economy P Chidambaram and Sanjaya Baru in conversation with N Ravi |
Session 3: Writing the World Geraldine Brooks, Karan Mahajan, Vivek Shanbhag and Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Karthika VK |
Session 4: The Minority Report: Protecting the minorities and marginalised Katherine Boo, Saeed Nawvi in conversation with Salil Tripathi |
Session 5: Is India Ripe for a Revolution? Kanhaiya Kumar in conversation with Sadanand Menon |
Session 6: The Book Thief Markus Zusak in conversation with Tishani Doshi |
Session 7: The Great Ones Sunil Khilnani and Ira Mukhoty in conversation with Raghu Karnad |
Session 8: The Hindu Prize 2016 Fiction Award Ceremony |
Session 9: Heroines Then Heroines Now Malavika Sarukkai in conversation with Sreemathi Ramnath |
Session 1 Women of Power Amruta Patil and Ira Mukhoty in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Session 2: Return of the Word Perumal Murugan in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy |
Session 3: Drawing Blood Molly Crabapple in conversation with Raghu Karnad |
Session 4: Everyone is a critic Anoothi Vishal, Gauri Devidayal, Sarah Todd in conversation with Shonali Muthalaly |
Session 5: Age of Terrorism Karan Mahajan and Josy Joseph in conversation with Suhasini Haider |
Session 6: A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara in conversation with Arunava Sinha |
Session 7: Dreams of a Hindu Rashtra Akshaya Mukul and Saeed Naqvi in conversation with N Ram |
Session 1: Russia: A Road Movie of Literature Paul Zacharia, Perumpadavam Sreedharan, Shiny Jacob in conversation with Rekha Menon |
Session 2: Urdu: The Poetics and the Politics Rahman Abbas in conversation with Shafey Kidwai |
Session 3: MY Story: The Stories I Can Tell Rumena Buzarkovska in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Shakespeare and Bollywood by Jonathan Gil Harris |
Sculpting the text by Pralayan |
The Seeing Eye by Sharan Apparao |
Metaphors that Move the Mind by Pradeep Chakravarthy |
Fun with Science by Science Utsav |
Jungle Books by Arefa Tehsin |
Understanding India's Water Ecology by Arun Krishnamurthy |
Books and Music by Amelio Early Education Pvt Ltd |
Fun with Science by Science Utsav |
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Session 1: Struck Dumb: Why states seek to muzzle freedom of expression Jayanthi Natarajan, Karthika VK, Mukund Padmanabhan, N Ram, Perumal Murugan in conversation with Salil Tripathi |
Session 2: Bringing big themes to book Akshaya Mukul, Josy Joseph, Mark Kurlansky in conversation with Arunava Sinha |
Session 3: Success Mantras of Southern Business MM Murugappan, Rajiv Lochan, Susheela Ravindranath in conversation with Naazneen Karmali |
Session 4: Imaging and Images of Women Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Girish Kasaravalli in conversation with N Manu Chakravarthy |
Session 5: Khullam Khulla Rishi Kapoor Uncensored The actor in conversation with Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri |
Session 6: The Fire of a Restless Mind Ritu Beri in conversation with Vivek Karunakaran |
Session 7: Standing on an Apple Box Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush in conversation with Sudhish Kamath |
Session 8: Bharati: The Known and the Unknown AR Venkatachalapathy and Y Manikandan in conversation with P Athiyaman |
Session 1: Music Masti Modernity The Cinema of Nasir Husain Akshay Manwani and Balaji Vittal in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Session 2: Women who mapped the change V Sriram in conversation with Anita Ratnam |
Session 3: This Love That Feels Right Ravinder Singh in conversation with Rosella Stephen |
Session 4: The Violence of Poverty Katherine Boo, Jayanthi Natarajan, U Vasuki in conversation with AS Panneerselvan |
Session 5: A Good Read Markus Zusak, Manjula Padmanabhan and Anil Menon in conversation with Sandhya Rao |
Session 5: The Hindu Young World Goodbooks Prize Award Ceremony |
Session 6: Muraliganam: Remembering Balamuralikrishna Prince Rama Varma in conversation with Sreenivasa Murthy |
Session 1: Documentary A Practice Iffat Fatima in conversation with RV Ramani |
Session 2: Celebrating the Word: AK Ramanujan Guillermo Rodriguez and Monica de la Fuentes |
Session 3: The Unbroken Line: Colours of Kannada Literature HS Shivaprakash in conversation with N Manu Chakravarthy |
The Women's Storytelling Salon by Nandini Oomman |
How do you read a film? by Sudhish Kamath |
Children's Fest |
Stories on Stage: Forum Theatre and Conflict Resolution by Crea Shakthi |
Poetry Appreciation by K Srilata |
Let's Dance by Senthil Kumaran |
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party (5-12) |
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Session 1: Keynote Address My Kashmir Omar Abdullah Introduced by Nirmala Lakshman |
Session 2: Cities Under Water: Lessons from Srinagar to Chennai M Saleem Beg, Prof S Janakarajan and Nityanand Jayaraman in conversation with Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
Session 3: Sing My Song: Duality of performance and creativity; of tradition and individuality Sanjay Subrahmanyam in conversation with Nirmala Lakshman |
Session 4: Picturing Time: Raghu Rai's most famour photographs and the stories behind them Raghu Rai in conversation with Sadanand Menon |
Session 5: My Gita Devdutt Pattanaik Introduced by Baradwaj Rangan |
Session 6: Dialogues and Interpretations: The Arts and Crafts of India Rajni Sarma Balachandran, Laila Tyabji and Yusuf Saleem |
Session 7: Memory Dreams Desire Statues and Ghosts: Images of the city from the paintings of Gulammohammed Sheikh The artist in conversation with Sadanand Menon |
Session 8: Presenting the Past: New approaches to history Ferdinand Mount and Shiv Kunal Verma in conversation with Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
Session 9: The Uses and Abuses of Religion Devdutt Pattanaik and Laila Tyabji in conversation with N Ram |
Session 1: Anatomy of a Murder: The Aarushi story Avirook Sen and Tanveer Ahmed Mir in conversation with Geeta Ramaseshan |
Session 2: Aham Puram: Impact of urbanisation and industrialisation as reflected in Tamil literature Sa Kandasamy, Prapanchan and S Ramakrishnan in conversation with DI Aravindhan (Tamil) |
Session 3: A Good Book: Literature for children in India Anil Menon, Sujatha Noronha and Shailaja Menon in conversation with Vidya Mani |
Session 4: The Hindu Young World Goodbooks Prize Award Ceremony |
Session 5: DIlemmas of Existence: Human aspirations denying ecosystem survival Neha Sumitran and Navroz Mody in conversation with Lawrence Surendra |
Session 6: Swimmer Among The Stars Kanishk Tharoor in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Session 7: Shifting Notions of the Nation State: As seen from the feminist perspective Maria Reimondez and Thamizhachi Thangapandian in conversation with K Satchidanandan (Bilingual) |
Session 1: The Kural: Gopalkrishna Gandhi in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy Verses set to tune by Chitravina N Ravikiran Vocals by Tirvarur Girish |
Session 2: True Detectives: Of sleuths in Gabarone and Edinburgh Alexander McCall Smith in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Session 3: Kama's Sutra Amrita Narayanan, Ananth Padmanabhan and Margaret Mascarenhas in conversation with Janice Pariat |
Session 4: The World of the Story Colm Toibin, Nilanjana Roy, Philip Hensher and Amitava Kumar in conversation with Mukund Padmanabhan |
Session 5: Santhal Family to Mill Re-call: An illustrated talk on the 409 Ramkinkars Vivan Sundaram in conversation with VV Ramani |
Session 6: The Hindu Prize 2015 Fiction Award Ceremony |
Session 7: Fighting Words: Stories About War Raghu Karnad and Shiv Kunal Verma in conversation with Sashi Kumar |
Session 8: India and the Networked World A talk by Shashi Tharoor Introduced by Sushila Ravindranath |
Session 9: Star Trek: Following MS Subbulakshmi Gowri Ramnarayan featuring artists Anjana Anand, Nisha Rajagopalan, Aditya Prakash, Sushma Somashekharan, Vedant Bharadwaj and Akhila Ramnarayan |
Session 1: Changing Face of Temples: Statues and Structures Sharan Apparao in conversation with Dr Chithra Madhavan |
Session 2: Singular Lives Colm Toibin, Ferdinand Mount and Rudrangshu Mukherjee in conversation with Amitava Kumar |
Session 3: The Addict: Diya Sethi and Vidya Singh in conversation with Dr Vijay Nagaswami |
Session 4: Artful Tales Kanishk Tharoor and Annie Zaidi in conversation with K Srilata |
Session 5: Lionel Shriver in conversation with Nilanjana Roy |
Session 6: Nothing Official About It Anuja Chauhan in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Session 7: Coming Out Sandip Roy, Living Smile Vidya, and Philip Hensher in conversation with Manil Suri |
Session 8: December Deluge and the Spirit of Chennai Chinmayi Sripada, Prema Revathi, Samp Paul, Chari Vijayaraghavan and Zara in conversation with Rajiv C Lochan |
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Session 1: Making India Work Shashi Tharoor, Jayanthi Natarajan, AS Dulat and TN Ninan in conversation with N Ram |
Session 2: Forbidden Fruit Lionel Shriver, Manil Suri, Amrita Narayanan and Annie Zaidi in conversation with Margaret Mascarenhas |
Session 3: Funnily Enough Alexander McCall Smith and Upamanyu Chatterjee in conversation with Nandini Krishnan |
Session 4: Poetry of Andal and Akka Mahadevi: Crazy words that swept away taboos Anita Ratnam and Madhu Natraj in conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam |
Session 5: This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's fault lines Barkha Dutt in conversation with Anita Ratnam |
Session 6: Mapping the Madras Line: Artists from the Madras School of Art colour the palette SG Vasudev and Velu Viswanadhan in conversation with AS Panneerselvan |
Session 7: Scion of Ikshvaku Amish in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Session 8: Representing the Real Presenting the Documentary RV Ramani and Deepa Dhanraj in conversation with Venkatesh Chakravarthy |
Session 1: No Longer 'Vernacular': The challenges of publishing in Indian languages Kannan Sundaram, Prema Revathi and Rubin D' Cruz in conversation with Vinutha Mallya |
Session 2: The Dating Game Anuja Chauhan, Sandip Roy, Annie Zaidi and Ananth Padmanabhan in conversation with Lavanya Mohan |
Session 3: The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa in conversation with Raghu Karnad Note: Session did not happen because Susan Abulhawa did not come |
Session 4: Dalit Aesthetics and Politics: How the Tamil Dalits reclaimed their identity Thol Thirumavalavan and Ravikumar in conversation with Justice Krishnaswami Chandry (Tamil) |
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Session 1: Booker Prize Winning author Eleanor Catton in conversation with Parvathi Nayar |
Session 2: A Reflection on Life, Literature, and Politics Nayantara Sahgal and Ritu Menon in conversation with Geeta Doctor |
Session 3:The First Firangis Jonathan Gil Harris Introduced by Swati Daftuar |
Session 4: Fermine Form: Site of Violence Ammu Joseph, Prabha Sridevan, Ramesh Gopalakrishnan and U Vasuki in conversation |
Session 5: Good Governance Vinod Rai, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sanjaya Baru in conversation with Sashi Kumar |
Session 6: The Birth of Modern China An Illustrated talk by Jung Chang Introduced by Vaishna Roy |
Session 7: Distant Neighbours: Our volatile relationship with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Salil Tripathi and Samanth Subramanian in conversation with Nirupama Subramanian |
Session 8: Speaking Songs TV Gopalakrishnan in conversation with Prince Rama Varma |
Session 9: Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat in conversation with Karthik Kumar |
Session 1: Song and Dance of the City A Srivathsan, MD Muthukumaraswamy, Rohan Shivkumar |
Session 2: Free Speech in Peril: The issues at stake N Ram, Justice K Chandru, Sashi Kumar in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy |
Session 3: What Coloured the Line: A discussion on visual art Rm Palaniappan, Marudu Trotsky, K Muralidharan in conversation |
Session 4: Art of the Tale Manjula Padmanabhan, Janice Pariat and Nina McConigley in conversation with VK Karthika |
Session 5: Ashoka: The Emperor of Good and Evil Charles Allen in conversation with Renuka Narayanan |
Session 6: From Tagore to Tharoor: A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces David Davidar in conversation with Parvathi Nayar Reading by Sarvesh Sridhar |
Word Worlds: A Workshop on Translation Mini Krishnan |
Dermocracy: A skincare workshop Dr. Sharad P. Paul |
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Session 1: A Voice of One's Own TM Krishna and Dayanita Singh in conversation |
Session 2: The Deeper Truth of Novels: Does fiction show the reality of our world better than non-fiction? Eleanor Catton, Irwin Allan Sealy and Damon Galgut in conversation with David Davidar |
Session 3: This Land Our Country P Sainath Introduced by Sashi Kumar |
Session 4: Shaped by Food Memories: Discussing our complex relationship with food Chef Aditya Bal, Chef Manu Chandra, Chef Kunal Kapur in conversation with Shonali Muthalaly |
Session 5: The Hindu Prize 2014 Fiction Award Ceremony |
Session 6: Starlight Nimrat Kaur and Tisca Chopra in conversation with Latha Menon |
Session 7: Gods Demons and Others Amish Tripathi in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Session 8: Our Plural Selves: Writing Memoirs Leila Seth, TM Krishna, Irwin Allan Sealy in conversation with VK Karthika |
Session 9: Reading Religion Renuka Narayanan, Sadanand Menon and AR Venkatachalapathy |
Session 1: The Hindu Prize Readings from the shortlisted books by Anita Nair, Ashok Srinivasan, Deepti Kapoor, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and Shovon Chaudhury Introduced by Ziya us Salam |
Session 2: Books in Focus Amitabh Bagchi, Janice Pariat and Timeri N Murari Introduced by Ziya us Salam |
Session 3: New Narratives or New Ways of Narration? Vetrimaran, Vasanthabalan and R Rohini in conversation with A Ramasamy |
Session 4: Power to the People in Our Times Ahdaf Souief, Rajmohan Gandhi, Damon Galgut in conversation with Meena Kandasamy |
Session 5: Green Wars: Dispatches from a Vanishing World An illustrated talk by Bahar Dutt Introduced by Swati Daftuar |
Lyric Engineering Madhan Karky |
Brunch Better Chefs Kunal Kapoor and Manu Chandra |
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Session 1: UR Ananthamurthy: A Homage Shiv Visvananthan, N Manu Chakravarthy and K Satchindanandan in conversation |
Session 2: Writers are Readers First: Three Writers discuss their favourite books Amitabha Bagchi, Manjula Padmanabhan and Timeri N Murari in conversation with Arunava Sinha |
Session 3: Challenging Status Quo: Powerful Women in conservative societies Leila Seth and Jung Chang in conversation with Vaishna Roy |
Session 4: The Lives of Others Rajmohan Gandhi and Charles Allen in conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris |
Session 5: Dayanita Singh presents The Book on the Wall Introduced by Sushila Ravindranath |
Session 6: Images and Imagery of Memory Alarmel Valli and Singeetham Srinivasa Rao in conversation with Sushila Ravindranath |
Session 7: In the Eye of the Sun Ahdaf Souief in conversation with Salil Tripathi |
Session 8: Skin: A Biography An illustrated lecture by Dr Sharad Paul Introduced by Vidya Singh |
Session 9: Speaking of Writing: The Stories of Madras V Sriram and AR Venkatachalapathy |
Session 10: Lotus Leaves Water Words A Reading Performance Directed by Prasanna Ramaswamy PC Ramakrishna, Anita Ratna, K Rohini, Nellai Manikandan, Niran Vicktor Benjamin, Sushila Ravindranath, Anandh Kumar, Revathy Kumar |
Session 1: The Kite Flyers Sharad Paul in conversation with Ranvir Shah |
Session 2: Crossing the Line: Journalism as Literature and Literature as Journalism Salil Tripathi Samanth Subramanian and Aatish Taseer in conversation with Arunava Sinha |
Session 3: Right to Read Students of Chennai Corporation Schools demonstrate the power of using technologies to enable English reading skills |
Session 4: Tamil theatre: The Voices and the Forms Pralayan, Living Smile Vidya, Na Muthuswamy and K Parthibaraja |
Session 5: The Way Things Were Aatish Taseer in conversation with Ranvir Shah |
Journeys in the Wild Bahar Dutt |
Die, Author, Die: A fun workshop on interpreting cinema your way Baradwaj Rangan |
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Session 1: Man Booker award Winning Author Aravind Adiga in conversation with David Godwin |
Session 2: The Flora and Fauna of the South: A Disappearing Landscape etched in the written word Anita Ratnam, KR Arumugam, PC Ramakrishna, Revathy Kumar, R Rohini, Sushila Ravindranath, Text and reading designed by Prasanna Ramaswamy Text Resource Person AR Venkatachalapathy |
Session 3: Rough Passage: The Coming of Age of the New Indian Woman Madhuri Banerjee, Mamng Dai, Nandini Krishnan, Radha Thomas in conversation with Ira Trivedi |
Session 4: Poetry with Gulzar Gulzar in conversation with Pavan K Varma |
Session 5: Making Waves: How to Create an Impact as an Author Ashwin Sanghi, Anita Nair, Ravi Subramanian in conversation with Naresh Fernandes |
Session 6: Reinventing Mythology: The Art of Rewriting Religious Narratives Paul Zacharia, Veenapani Chawla, AR Venkatachalapathy in conversation with K Satchidanandan |
Session 7:The Art of the Literary Novel Jim Crace and Abraham Verghese in conversation with David Godwin |
Session 8: Women in the 21st Century Naomi Wolf in Conversation with Barkha Dutt |
Session 9: Remembering Bhopal Pablo Bartholomew's unforgettable photographs of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy on the 30th anniversary of the tragic gas leak Introduced by Rahul Pandita |
Performance: The UNK Ensemble |
Session 1: Evaluatio of the Imaginary Kumar Shahani in conversation with Sadanand Menon |
Session 2: Hill, Vale and Many a Tale, Directed by Neela Venkataraman A film on writers in Mussoorie and Dehradun Introduced by Stephen Alter |
Book Launch: Idris: Keeper of the Light by Anita Nair Launched by Naomi Wolf |
From page to stage: Bringing a Story Alive by Nikhila Kesavan |
Tell me a story: Theatre-based storytelling by Vikram Sridhar |
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Session 1: A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story TM Krishna and Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
Session 2: The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India Romila Thapar Introduced by N Ram |
Session 3: India's Mega Cities: Centres of Hope or Centres of Despair Amit Chaudhuri, Naresh Fernandes, Nirmala Lakshman in conversation with Pushpa Arabindoo |
Session 4: The Constant Traveller Colin Thubron Introduced by Pankaja Srinivasan |
Session 5: Tall Tales: Fantastical Stories from the East and the West Ashwin Sanghi and Samantha Shannon in conversation with Shovon Chowdhury |
Session 6: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanisatn William Dalrymple Introduced by Ranvir Shah |
Session 7: A Renaissance Man Abraham Verghese Introduced by Nirmala Lakshman |
Session 8: Crime Time (From left) Kishwar Desai, Piyush Jha, Ravi Subramanian, Somnath Batabyal, and Stephen Alter in conversation |
Session 9: Who am I? A Tamil? A Muslim? Or...?: A Tamil Muslim's Journey in Search of His Identity S Anwar Introduced by A Srivathsan |
Session 1: I Swallowed the Moon Gulzar in conversation with Shantanu Roy Chaudhuri |
Session 2: The Women's Room: The Politics of Women's Writing Easterine Kire and Kishwar Desai in conversation with Anita Nair |
Session 3: The Land of Flying Lamas Gaurav Punj in conversation with Rujuta Diwekar |
Session 4: Bollywood Confidential Piyush Jha and Sabrina Dhawan in conversation |
Session 5: Granta's Luminaries Taiye Selasi and Xialou Guo in conversation with Parvathi Nayar |
Session 6: Voices from the Past: Oral Traditions and the Recording of Early Voices Vidya Shah |
Craft of the Screenplay: A Primer by Sabrina Dhawan |
Mindscreens: Movements through imaginary landscapes by Anita Ratnam |
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Session 1: Lights Camera Censor! Moral Policing in Cinema Kamal Haasan in conversation with K. Hariharan |
Session 2: Wayfarers Colin Thubron and William Dalrymple in conversation |
Session 3: Beyond the Vagina: Thoughts on Sex and Sexuality Naomi Wolf Introduced by Anita Ratnam |
Session 4: The Many Forms of Literature Shovon Chowdhury, Stephen Alter and Mamang Dai in conversation with Ranvir Shah |
Session 5: The Hindu Prize for Fiction 2013: Readings by Shortlisted Authors Amandeep Sandhu, Manjul Bajaj, Manu Joseph & Sonora Jha Introduced by Ziya us Salam |
Session 6: Fit for Life Rujuta Diwekar Introduced by Vidya Singh |
Session 7: Tiger Fire: Five Hundred Years of the Tiger Valmik Thapar Introduced by David Davidar |
Session 8: The Writing Life Jim Crace and Samantha Shannon in conversation with David Godwin |
Session 9: The Hindu Prize 2013 Fiction Award Ceremony |
Session 1: Is the Playwright Dead? The Continued Relevance of Playwrights in Today's Multimedia World Anuradha Kapur, Neelam Mansingh, Satish Alekar in conversation with Sadanand Menon |
Session 2: Journey to the Heart of the Conflict Zone Easterine Kire and Rahul Pandita in conversation with Rasheeda Bhagat |
Session 3: Politics of Sexuality: Body as a Site of Violence and Recovery Anar, Salma, Sharmila Sayyid in conversation with Prasanna Ramaswamy |
Mind Body & Soul: A Holistic Approach to Yoga by Payal Gidwani Tiwari |
Telling Lives: Theory, Practice and Craft of Writing a Biography AR Venkatachalapathy |
Tell me a story: Theatre-based storytelling by Vikram Sridhar |
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Session 1: Has there been a paradigm shift in Indian democracy? Manish Tewari, Pinki Anand and Shazia Ilmi in conversation with Praveen Swami |
Session 2: Documentary Cinema: My Frame Amar Kanwar, Sanjay Kak and R.V. Ramani |
Session 3: 1984: Anatomy of a Riot Rahul Singh, Amandeep Sandhu and Manoj Mitta in conversation with Sunil Sethi |
Session 4: Mythology: Repossession and Rereading in Art K Satchidanandan, Paul Zacharia and Samik Bandyopadhyay in conversation |
Session 5: Theatre: Art of Performance or Provocation Sudhanva Deshpande, Maya Krishna Rao in conversation with Anuradha Kapur |
Session 6: Capital City Sam Miller Rana Dasupta in conversation with Ratish Nanda |
Session 7: Stand Up Comedy by Anuvab Pal |
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Session 1: Accidental India Shankar Ayyar, Brinda Karat, Bibek Debroy, Jayanthi Natarajan in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan |
Keynote Address Picturing the Indian Subcontinent Steve McCurry Introduced by Dinesh Khanna |
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Session 1: My Dear Bapu: Readings from letters exchanged between Rajaji and the Mahatma Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Rahul Bose and Yog Japee |
Session 2: South of the Vindhyas: Stories from the Southern States Vaidehi, Sarah Aboobacker and Benyamin in conversation with Anupama Raju |
Session 3: Rhyme and Reason: The Power of Poetry Jeet Thayil, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Meena Kandasamy in conversation |
Session 4: No Country for Women: Some Truths About Rape Kalpana Kannabiran, Rahul Bose and Nilanjana Roy in conversation with Kalpana Sharma |
Session 5: Graphically Speaking Amruta Patil, Samit Basu and Appupen in conversation |
Session 6: Fiction First Writing a Stunning Debut Novel Jerry Pinto and Nilanjana Roy in conversation |
Session 7: The Business Sutra Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Mita Kapur |
Session 8: Border Crossing Ashok Ferrey and Farah Ghuznavi in conversation with Mridula Koshy |
Session 9: The Making of a Champion Michael Ferreira and Sambit Bal in conversation with Suresh Menon |
Workshop 1: Undersatnding, Creating and Deconstructing New Trends in Art by Sharan Apparao |
Workshop 2: Narrative Poetry by Meena Kandasamy |
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Session 1: The Green Room Wendell Rodricks Introduced by Ranvir Shah |
Session 2: Pop Friction Sidin Vadukut, Jugal Mody and Ravinder Singh in conversation with Lalita Iyer |
Session 3 Mean Streets Mayank Austen Soofi and Meenal Baghel in conversation with Ranvir Shah |
Session 4: The Art of the Tale: Storytellers at Work Timeri N Murari, Mridula Koshy and Anosh Irani in conversation |
Session 5: In Brief: The Power of Short Fiction Ashok Ferrey and Benyamin in conversation with Mridula Koshy |
Session 6: Writing for the World's Youngest Nation Lalita Iyer, Veena Venugopal and Varun Agarwal in conversation |
Session 7: Jeet Thayil reads from his Man Booker shortlisted novel Narcopolis Introduced by Nilanjana Roy |
Session 8: Cooking Up A Storm: The Secrets of Great Food Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Chef Dharmen Makwana and Pascal Dupuis in conversation with Farzana Contractor |
Session 9: Kingdome of Dreams Shriya Saran and Sharmila Tagore in conversation with Jerry Pinto |
Workshop: More than Meets the Eye: Writing Picture Books for Children by Deepa Balsaver |
The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Award Ceremony |
Inauguration: Firdose Vandrewala, CMD, HIRCO, and Dr. Nirmala Lakshman, Director, The Hindu |
Session 1: Are you really going to eat all that? Chef Nikhil Chib, Chef Manu Chandra, Jigyasa Giri in conversation with Esther David |
Session 2: Popularity Factor Mukul Deva, Anuja Chauhan, and Angela Saini in conversation |
Session 3: New Wave Cinema Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in conversation with Jai Arjun Singh |
Session 4: Revolutions and New Beginnings John Mohammed Butt, Moti Lerner and Ali Al Muqri in conversation with Aman Sethi |
Realities: Fictional or Otherwise Indrajit Hazra and Rana Dasgupta in conversation with Aman Sethi |
A Life in Theatre Mahesh Dattani and Sanjna Kapoor in conversation |
Indian Politics After Anna Sitaram Yechury and Sachin Pilot in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan |
Dance Performance by Alarmel Valli |
Workshop: Children's writing by Anushka Ravishankar and Atanu Roy |
Inauguration: Firdose Vandrewala, CMD, HIRCO; Leela Samson, director, Kalakshetra; David Davidar; and Nirmala Lakshman, director, The Hindu |
Session 1: Just in the Neighbourhood Mohammed Hanif in conversation with Ziya us Salam Introduced by Geeta Doctor |
Session 2: Destination Detectives Rahul Bhattacharya in conversation with Latha Anantharaman Introduced by Ranvir Shah |
Session 3: Is Writing a Healing? Bama, P Sivakami and Susie Tharu in conversation with Siddharth Varadarajan |
Session 4 The Other Side of Books Urvashi Butalia, Ravi Singh, Karthika VK and Saugata Mukherjee in conversation Introduced by Shalini Arun |
Writing in the Time of Cinema Suhasini Maniratnam in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan |
Comic Timing Vir Das Introduced by Yog Japee |
Workshop: The Hardships of Writing by Zac O Yeah |
Session 1: The Scent of Paper K Srilata and Kavery Nambisan in conversation Introduced by Parvathi Nayar |
Session 2: Freeze Frame Anjum Rajabali, Balu Mahendra, Singeetham Sreenivasa Rao in conversation with K Hariharan Introduced by Chitra Mahesh |
Session 3: Unlimited Spirit Shabana Azmi in conversation with Urvashi Butalia Introduced by Reshma Kulkarni |
Session 4: Playing Fields Shashi Tharoor, Mukul Kesavan and Rahul Bhattacharya in conversation Introduced by Mukund Padmanabhan |
Session 5: The Rivered Earth Vikram Seth in conversation with Nisha Susan Introduced by Nirmala Lakshman |
Workshop: Translations by Arunava Sinha and Mini Krishnan |
The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011 Award Ceremony |