10.00 am – 11.00.am

Inauguration Ceremony

Keynote Address by Jairam Ramesh

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Relevance of Political Biographies

Jairam Ramesh, Vaibhav Purandare

Chair: Manimugdha Sharma

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of The East India company

William Dalrymple

Introduced by Manu Pillai

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Rishis of Yoga Mythology

Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Anuja Chauhan on the origins of 64 yoga asanas

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Literature as Dissent

TM Krishna, Hoshang Merchant, Vivek Shanbhag

Chair: Pallavi Arun

Book Launch: Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History of Mridangam Makers by T M Krishna

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Reimagine Your Life!

Preeti Shenoy, Vinita Dawra Nangia in conversation with Ravinder Singh

Book Launch: Reimagine Your Life by Vinita Dawra Nangia

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess

Tamannaah Bhatia, Satyarth Nayak

Chair: Simran Mangharam

Book launch: Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess by Satyarth Nayak

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

The Art of the Short Story

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Usha KR

Chair: Vani Shivashankar

6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Usha Uthup: Ullas ki Nao

Usha Uthup, Vikas Kumar Jha

Chair: Milan Vohra

7.00 pm – 8.00 pm

Performance by Usha Uthup

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

KANNADA SESSION: ಆಧುನಿಕ ಅನುವಾದ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ –Trends in Translation

K S Vaishali, Prathibha Nandakumar

Chair: Samyuktha Puligal

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

LGBTQ: Pride and Much Prejudiced?

Hoshang Merchant, Vasudhendra, Nemat Sadat

Chair: Saikat Majumdar

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Diaspora Dialogue: A World of our Own

Nemat Sadat, Anthonythasan Jesuthasan, Tanushree Ghosh

Chair: Priya Balasubramanian

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

How Unreal is our Romantic Fiction?

Ravinder Singh, Milan Vohra, Kulpreet Yadav

Chair: Andaleeb Wajid

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Online Wonders: Scripting Success Digitally

Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Sundari Venkatraman, Savi Sharma, Preethi Venugopala

Chair: Mansi Babbar

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

The Making of Historical Narratives

Manu Pillai, Manimugdha Sharma

Chair: Vaibhav Purandare

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Life-Enhancing Secrets from Hindu Mythology

Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Shoba Narayan

6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Power and Corruption: Close Affiliates?

Claudia Wallin, Andrew Fidel Fernando, Jan Stocklassa

Chair: Keshava Guha

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

How Do The Young Invest Today?

Abhijit Majumder, ER Ashok Kumar, CS Sudheer

Chair: Sujit John

Session sponsor: SBI

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Unbroken: The Tale of a Brussels Attack Survivor

Nidhi Chaphekar in conversation with Vani Shivashankar

Book Launch: Unbroken by Nidhi Chaphekar

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Impossible Frontier: Is Science-Fiction the Next Big Thing?

Arjun Gaind, Krishna Udayasankar, Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Chair: Shalini Srinivasan

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Where do Book Ideas Come From?

Priya Balasubramanian, Keshava Guha, Andrew Fidel Fernando

Chair: Kanchana Banerjee

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Bringing ‘Wild Karnataka’ To The Screen

Amoghavarsha JS, Vijay Mohan Raj

Chair: Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Life After Reform: The Journey of a Militant and a Gangster

Anthonythasan Jesuthasan, Agni Sreedhar

Chair: Kulpreet Yadav

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Real Crime: When Life is Stranger Than Fiction

Kulpreet Yadav, Jan Stocklassa, Kanchana Banerjee

Chair: Arjun Gaind

6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Debut Authors: How They Made It

Angshu Dasgupta, Nitya Ravi, Divya Anand

Chair: Anumita Ghosh

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Write India Story Salon

Mansi Babbar, Anu Palani and Anumita Ghosh read out awarded short stories from the Write India contest

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Children’s workshop: From Leeches to Slug Glue- 25 explosive ideas that made modern medicine

Talk by Roopa Pai

1.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Fiction Writing Workshop with Saikat Majumdar

Saikat Majumdar talks about the hidden story

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Talk: Introduction to Indian comic books

Arjun Gaind

Book launch: The eagle and the serpent by Arjun Gaind

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Book Reading

A Sweet Deal by Andaleeb Wajid

Fern Road by Angshu Dasgupta

What The Eyes See by Nitya Ravi

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

The Spinning Wheel: A Storytelling Session

RJ Jimmy

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

FORGOTTEN MASTERS: Indian Painting for the East India Company

William Dalrymple

Introduced by Avik Chanda

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Breaking Myths: Creating a New Narrative

Chetan Bhagat with Ashwin Sanghi

Book Launch: The Vault of Vishnu by Ashwin Sanghi

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Happy For No Reason

Mandira Bedi in conversation with Kiran Manral

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

A Darkling Plain: Will Our Secular Fabric Hold?

Sudipto Mondal, Aditya Sondhi, Aakar Patel

Chair: Keshava Guha

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

The Girls of Mumbaistan

Richa Chadha, Piyush Jha

Chair: Priyanka Sinha Jha

Book Launch: The Girls Of Mumbaistan by Piyush Jha

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

India’s Most Haunted

K Hari Kumar, Jay Alani, Neil D’Silva

Chair: Milan Vohra

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Bildungsromans: Coming-of-age Novels in India

Saikat Majumdar, Usha KR

Chair: Nirmala Govindarajan

7.00 pm – 8.30 pm

Musical Stand-Up Comedy Performance by Aisi Taisi Democracy

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

KANNADA SESSION: ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ಸಂಘರ್ಷ , ಸವಾಲುಗಳು

– Writing in Times of Conflict

T S Nagabharana, Vasundhara Bhupathi, B Suresha, L Hanumanthaiah
Chair: H Lakshminarayana Swamy

12.00 pm -1.00 pm

No Regrets: Choices Women Must Make

Nirmala Govindarajan, Kaveree Bamzai, Anuja Chauhan

Chair: Tanushree Ghosh

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Folktales: Why Were Legends Created?

Manjul Bajaj, Anitha Murthy, Geeta Gopalakrishnan

Chair: Piyusha Vir

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Thrillers: How Not To Kill the Thrill

Ashwin Sanghi, Piyush Jha, Venita Coelho, Sudeep Nagarkar

Chair: Kevin Missal

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Fractured Times: Can Humour Save Us?

V G Narendra, Varun Grover, Sonu Venu Gopal

Chair: Papa CJ

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Lessons We Learn Through Mythology

Anand Neelakantan, Kavita Kane, Kevin Missal

Chair: Piyusha Vir

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Book to Screen Adaptation: What Sort of Books Get Adapted

Anand Neelakantan, Omi Singh, Arjun Gaind

Chair: K Hari Kumar

6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Naked by Comedian Papa CJ: Stand-up Comedy Performance and Book Discussion

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

How Relevant is Travel Writing in the Age of Google Maps?

Andrew Fidel Fernando, Deepa Agarwal

Chair: Preethi B

12.00 pm -1.00 pm

Fairytales No More: What do Children Read?

Venita Coelho, Khyrunnisa A, Anitha Murthy

Chair: Deepa Agarwal

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Bollywood Biographers: Their Modus Operandi

Aseem Chhabra, Priyanka Sinha Jha, Satyarth Nayak

Chair: Kaveree Bamzai

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

In My Heart: Different Ways Families Are Born

Talk by Nandana Sen

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Sex, Marriage and Morality

Shuma Raha, Sheila Kumar, Naseha Sameen

Chair: Sadiqa Peerbhoy

Book Launch: Heir: End of Innocence by Naseha Sameen

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Dara Shikoh: The Man Who Would Be King

Avik Chanda in conversation with Kalpana Sharma

5.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Dreams of a Billion: Tokyo 2020 and India’s Olympic story

Nalin Mehta, Deepthi Bopaiah, Amit Kumar Saroha, Ashwini Nachappa

6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Indian Food Heritage vs. Food Trends

Divya Anand, Chef Abhijit Saha, Pavan Kumar BVS

Chair: Kalyan Karmakar

Session Sponsor: ID Fresh

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Mambi and the Forest Fire: An Interactive Storytelling Event about Courage, Friendship and Self-Confidence – For Children

Nandana Sen

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm

Write India Short Story Salon

Preethi B, Mansi Babbar and Anu Palani read out awarded short stories from the Write India contest

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Book Reading

Dara Shikoh: The Man Who Would Be King by Avik Chanda

Nawab by Omi Singh

Book Launch: Heir: End of Innocence by Naseha Sameen

Book launch presented by Tata Tea Gold

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm

How to Enhance Your Understanding of Mythology

Talk by Kavita Kane

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Talk: How To Raise Your Boys

Kiran Manral

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Workshop: Cartooning Made Easy 

World record holder Panduranga Rao teaches the art of making flipbooks

5.00 pm – 5.30 pm

Reading

Sweden, The UnTold Story by Claudia Wallin