- 08th Feb, 2020
- 10:00 am – 08:00 pm
- Jayamahal Palace
- Register for Free
The Lawns
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
SBI Hangar
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
The Tent
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
Workshops @ The Peepal Tree
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
- 09th Feb, 2020
- 10:00 am – 08:00 pm
- Jayamahal Palace
- Register for Free
Children’s Special (Near the Lawns)
10 AM – 12 PM
Write India story writing competition (Age group: 10 – 15 years)
Handwriting competition (Age group: 10 – 15 years)
Slogan writing competition (Age group: 12 – 15 years)
Drawing competition (Age group: 7 – 15 years)
The Lawns
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
SBI Hangar
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
The Tent
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
Workshops @ The Peepal Tree
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
* Schedule is subject to change without prior notice.