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| Performance by Children of the Sunshine Orchesrta, 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) |
