Write your reality A workshop by Paro Anand.
World Building in Fiction A workshop by Claire Scobie.
Writer in Striped Pyjamas John Boyne in conversation with Anushka Ravishankar.
Women of Steel (From left) Sagarika Ghose, Sushila Ravindranath and Vaasanthi Sundaram.
Winners all (From left) Ananya Vajpeyi, Gauri Visvanathan, N Ravi, Nirmala Lakshman, Indira Parthasarathy, Sebastian Faulks, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Chandan Gowda, Jonathan Gil Harris and Kamini Mahadev.
Winner fo The Hindu Young World Goodbooks Awards 2018 (from left) Chatura Rao, Devika Cariapa, Mini Srinivasan, Nandhika Nambi and Nancy Raj.
Why is India’s Secular Nationalism Under Attack.
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, 14/01/2018: Why Is Indias Secular Nationalis, Under Attack? Ananya Vajpei, Manu Joseph, Prayaag Akbar, and Swapan Dasgupta in conversation with Malini Parthasarathy, at The Hindu LIT FOR LIFE, in Chennai on Sunday. Photo: R. Ravindran.
Why is India’s Secular Nationalism Under Attack (From left) Prayaag Akbar, Ananya Vajpeyi, Malini Parthasarathy, Swapan Dasgupta and Manu Joseph.
The Write Stuff Sebastian Faulks in conversation with Janice Pariat.
Walking the Tightrope (From left) Chetan Sharma, Anu Majumdar and Malavika Nataraj.
Utopian Realities (From left) Vaishna Roy, Anu Majumdar, Akash Kapur, Rajni Bakshi and Raphael Gastebois.
When letters filled the air.
The Role of the Novelist Beyond Fiction (From left) Mini Kapoor, Prayaag Akbar, Robert Dessaix and Amitava Kumar.
The troupe from Sunshine Orchestra.
The Price of Freedom Taslima Nasrin in conversation with Suhasini Haider.
The Good Mother (From left) Rosella Stephen, Shobhaa De and Natasha Badhwar.
The Price of Freedom Taslima Freedom.
The Hindu Prize Readings Deepak Unnikrishnan reads from Temporary People.
The Hindu Prize Readings (From left) Prayaag Akbar, Akhila Krishnamurthy and Deepak Unnikrishnan.
The Great Escape Hyeonseo Lee in conversation with Kelly Falconer.
The Founding Fathers and the Relevance of the Mahatma Today Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with David Davidar.
The festival begins (From left) Dr Nirmala Lakshman, Rajmohan Gandhi, N Ram and Mukund Padmanabhan.
The Corrupt Society (From left) N Ram, Rajiv Lochan and Arun Kumar.
Taste of Sangam (From left) Chef Praveen Anand, Pradeep Chakravarthy and Rakesh Raghunathan.
The Changing Face of India (From left) Rajmohan Gandhi, G Sampath, Gurmehar Kaur and Arun Kumar.
The Age of Cowardice (From left) Narayan Lakshman, Swati Chaturvedi, Teesta Setalvad and Gurmehar Kaur.
The Asian Century (From left) Josy Joseph, Peter Frankopan, Victor Mallet and Srinath Raghavan).
Tap away at the typewriter.
Showcasing Theatre (From left) Mukund Padmanabhan, Nissar Allana, Santanu Bose and Arundhathi Nag.
Survival Strategies for the Literary Novel Manu Joseph makes a point as Mini Kapoor, Pierre Ducrozet and KR Meera look on.
Survival Strategies for the Literary Novel (From Left) Mini Kapoor, Pierre Ducrozet, Manu Joseph, KR Meera.
Storytellers World KR Meera in conversation with Mini Krishnan.
Seventy and to Hell With It Shobhaa De in conversation with Vidya Singh.
Right to Land Right To Life Jignesh Mevani in conversation with Chandan Gowda.
Right to Land Jignesh Mevani salutes the crowd.
Reimagining Stereotypes (From left) Shailaja Menon, Namitha Jacob, Radhika Menon and Sandhya Rao.
Ready to enter the auditorium.
Reading Ramanujan (From left) Vivek Shanbhag, Arshia Sattar, SG Vasudev and Jeet Thayil.
Pounce and Prejudice The LFL Quiz winners.
Raman Shresta has his say as Vidya Virkar, Divya Kapur, and Pankaja Srinivasan listen.
Parenting Secrets A workshop by Nandini Raman.
Political Correctness in Children’s Lit (From left) Vidya Mani, Anushka Ravishankar, John Boyne and Paro Anand.
Poets in Society (From left) K Srilata, Tishani Doshi, Sadaf Saaz and Jeet Thayil.
Rajmohan Gandhi lights the lamp to inagurate the festival.
Not Story Boards But Telling Pictures (From left) Priya Kurian, Larissa Bertonasco, Nandini Krishnan.
Packed pavilion.
Nude Vishal Bhardwaj in conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris.
Of Saints and Sinners Jeet Thayil in conversation with Tishani Doshi.
Not Drowning, Waving Robert Dessaix in conversation with Timeri Murari.
New Ideas of Feminism (From left) Ammu Joseph, Swati Chaturvedi, Gurmehar Kaur, Natasha Badhwar.
Navigate to the North Gowthaman Sanna in conversation with Karan Karki.
New Fiction (from left) Janice Pariat, Nandini Krishnan and Amitava Kumar.
Narratives of War (From left) Vaishna Roy, John Boyne and Sebastian Faulks.
Miss Laila Armed and Dangerous Manu Joseph in conversation with Nandini Krishnan.
Music to Freedom Arimalam Padmanabhan in conversation with V Sriram.
Looking South Charles Allen in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy.
Listen to the Flames (From left) Bama, Sambaiah Gundimeda, Sharankumar Limbale and Mini Krishnan.
Listen to My Story Sam Cooney, Margrete Lamond, Kelly Falconer, Claire Scobie, Terri Ann-White, Kamini Mahadevan.
Light the Fire (From left) Prema Revathi, V Geetha and Swarooparani Challapalli.
Keeping the kids occupied.
Is the India Our Constitution Envisages Under Challenge Sitaram Yechury in conversation with Sashi Kumar.
Innovative India Kiran Karnik in conversation with Suresh Seshadri.
Indulge in some retail therapy.
Indira Parthasarathy receives The Hindu Tamil Lifetime Achievement Award from N Ravi as Dr Nirmala Lakshman looks on.
Indica A natural history of the Indian subcontinent An illustrated talk by Pranay Lal.
India’s War Srinath Raghavan in conversation with Josy Joseph.
In Pursuit of Evil Adrian Levy and K Vijay Kumar meet as Sanjay Pinto looks on.
Imayam’s Women Imayam in conversation with Dr R Azhagarasan.
In Pursuit of Evil (From left) Adrian Levy, Sanjay Pinto and K Vijay Kumar.
Hema Malini checks out the bookstore.
How Noir is the New Tamil Writing Lakshmi Saravanakumar in conversation with Saravanan Chandran.
Freedom to Dissent (from left) Chandan Gowda, Hyeonseo Lee, Sadaf Saaz, N Ravi, TM Krishna and Teesta Setalvad.
Floating Words Across the Frontiers Mamta Sagar performs as Nia Davies and Anita Thampi watch.
Floating Words Across the Frontiers (From left) Nia Davies, Mamta Sagar and Anita Thampi.
Fixing them on the scrabble wall.
Finding their letters.
Eastern Sunrise A New History of the World An Illustrated Lecture by Peter Frankopan.
Don’t Disturb the Dead Shamya Dasgupta in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan.
Documentary Films K Stalin in conversation with RV Ramani.
Discussing what they heard.
Deepak Unnikrishnan with a fan.
Deepak Unnikrishnan received The Hindu Prize 2017 from Sebastian Faulks for his novel Temporary People.
Create a story.
Chest of Memories Lines of Recovery T Sanathanan and AS Panneerselvan in conversation.
Checking out the day’s programme.
Browsing through the shelves of the bookstore.
Blitzed Norman Ohler in conversation with AS Panneerselvan.
Beyond the Dream Girl Hema Malini and Ram Kamal Mukherjee share a light moment.
Beyond Runs and Wickets (From left) Suresh Menon, N Ram, Rajdeep Sardesai and K Srikkanth.
Beginning with a song from children of the Sunshine Orchestra.
Art in Landscape Subodh Kerkar talks about his Land Art.
Art in Landscape Subodh Kerkar in conversation with Tehzeeb Katari.
A Runs Through It Victor Mallet in conversation with Suhasini Haider.
Adrian Levy, Mukund Padmanabhan and S Hussain Zaidi discuss The Face of Terror.
An Unsuitable Boy Karan Johar in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan.
A selfie with Shobhaa De.
A rapt audience at Sir Mutha Concert Hall.
A question for the speaker.
A photoshoot at the end of the day.
A photo op with Peter Frankopan.
A conversation with Pranay Lal.
A bit of colouring to keep the kids busy.