Schedule

2017
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January, 14 2017
SESSION
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
January, 15 2017.
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
January, 16 2017.
SESSION
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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