22nd Jan
DURBAR HALL
MUGHAL TENT
BAITHAK
FRONT LAWNS
10.00am – 11.00am Imagining India
Nandan Nilekani with Patrick French		 Tehelka Foundation
Children’s workshop
by Puneeta Roy		 Readings
Rana Dasgupta
Tash Aw
introduction by Jai Arjun Singh		  
11.00am – 12.00pm The Wasted Vigil
Nadeem Aslam with Shoma Chaudhury		 Tehelka Foundation
Children’s workshop
by Puneeta Roy		 Five Rivers
Navdeep Suri in conversation with Nirupama Dutt
Performance by Ustad Nile Khan		  
12.00pm – 1.00pm Restructuring the Archive as a Fountain of Creativity
Alice Albinia
Christophe Jaffrelot
Mukund Lath
Patrick French
Kaushik Bhaumik in conversation with Neville Tuli
Presented by Osian’s		 Tehelka Foundation
Children’s workshop
by Puneeta Roy		 Ancestor Stones
Aminatta Forna in conversation with Sonia Faleiro
1.00pm – 2.30pm LUNCH: Manju Malhi with James Asher & Mahesh Vinayakram @ Hotel Clarks Amer LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2.30pm – 3.30pm The Story of my Assassins
Tarun Tejpal in conversation with Marc Parent
introduction by Rana Dasgupta 		 Shakespeare Wallahs
Charles Nicholl
Michael Wood 
In memory of Sudhir Mulji
The Fashion Conspiracy
Kanika Gahlaut
Nicholas Coleridge
Ritu Kumar
Presented by DNA
3.30pm – 4.30pm Oral Traditions: Performance and Literature
Arshia Sattar with Wendy Doniger		 Defining Diaspora
Hari Kunzru
Nadeem Aslam
Tahmima Anam
Tash Aw
Presented by Asia Society India Centre		 In their Element..Two Poets
Ashok Vajpeyi
Derek Mahon
4.30pm – 5.00pm TEA TEA TEA TEA
5.00pm – 6.00pm Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth
Tehelka As Metaphor
Is it possible to be honest in India?
Town Hall Debate
Madhu Trehan
Manoj Rajhuvanshi
‘The Strange Luck of V.S.Naipaul’  (A Documentary)
by Adam Low
Martin Rosenbaum             

 

 Readings from Maslaram
Ashok Chakradhar
  
  Coexist Concert for Peace Series 

FRONT LAWN		      
6.30pm – 7.30pm Rumi
Coleman Barks
Kudsi Erguner
introduced by Muzaffar Ali
In memory of Shusha Guppy		    
8.30pm onwards Dinner
Hosted by Penguin Books India (By Invitation Only)		      
  Junoon Unplugged  Salman Ahmad  (Pakistan)      
  Shye Ben Tzur - The Sufi Qawwali Experience Live - Israel/IndiaEXHIBITIONS