27. 'The Taj'

Ebba Koch introduced by Alka Pande

Supported by Foundation Jan Michalski 
Watch Session Video

28. 'In Search of a Story'

Chetan Bhagat in conversation with John Elliott.

Supported by Hindustan Times

Watch Session Video

29. 'Three Voices': Readings

Taiye Selasi, Anuradha Roy and Geling Yan. Introduced by Urvashi Butalia

30. 'Creativity, Censorship and Dissent'

Siddhartha Gigoo, Tahmima Anam, Prasoon Joshi, Charu Nivedita, Cheran moderated by Shoma Chaudhury

Supported by Google

Watch Session Video

Young Adults' Workshop: Democracy Dialogues

31.

'Transformations and Transgressions: Two Voices from Tamil'

Charu Nivedita and Bama Faustina, moderated by Namita Gokhale.

Watch Session Video

32. 'Tiger Mothers'

Amy Chua in conversation with Madhu Trehan.

Supported by Times of India

Watch Session Video

33. 'A Good Man in Africa'

Tim Butcher, Philip Gourevitch, Philip Marsden and Ilija Trojanow moderated by Taiye Selasi.

Supported by IPPAI

34. 'Gandhi, Ambedkar and the Crossroads at Jantar Mantar'

Joseph Lelyveld, MJ Akbar, Sunil Khilnani, Aruna Roy , S. Anand moderated by Urvashi Butalia.

Supported by Tata Steel

Watch Session Video

Young Adults' Workshop: Democracy Dialogues

35. 'A Second Voice: Relooking Voices, Reworking Texts'

Urs Widmer, Donal Mclaughlin, Constance Borde and Shiela Malovany-Chevallier, Thomas moderated by Malashri Lal.

Supported by French Embassy & Pro Helvetia

Watch Session Video

36. 'Reckonings'

Philip Gourevitch introduced by Akash Kapur.

Supported by Tata Steel

Watch Session Video

37. 'The Power of Myth'

Arshia Sattar, Jawhar Sircar, Amish Tripathi in conversation Gurcharan Das.

Supported by DNA

Watch Session Video

38. 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: A Decline of Violence in History'

Steven Pinker introduced by Barkha Dutt.

Watch Session Video

Young Adults' Workshop: 'Suno, Suno Ek Kahani'

Prasoon Joshi, Gulzar.

Supported by Hindustan Times

Watch Session Video

39. 'Green Thoughts in a Green Shade'

Anna Pavord, Jamaica Kincaid moderated by Pradip Krishen.

Watch Session Video

45. 'Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: The Chutneyfication of English'

Rita Kothari, Tarun Tejpal, in conversation with Ira Pande.

Supported NewsX

Watch Session Video

41. 'Two Lives :Meera Bai and Akka Mahadevi'

Yatindra Mishra, Kiran Nagarkar, Mahendra Bhanawat, Suman Keshari, in conversation with H.S. Shivaprakash.

Watch Session Video

42. 'The Famished Road' Ben Okri in conversation with Chandrahas Chaudhury.

Supported by British Council

Watch Session Video

43. 'Mothers and Children'

Amy Chua in conversation with Puneeta Roy.

Watch Session Video

44. 'After Bin Laden'

Ayesha Jalal, Jason Burke, MJ Akbar, Max Rodenbeck, Mushirul Hasan moderated by Shoma Chaudhury.

Supported NewsX 

Watch Session Video

40. 'In Defence of the Enlightenment'

A.C. Grayling, Steven Pinker introduced by Vijay Tankha.

Supported by British Council

Watch Session Video

46. 'Rediscovering India's Buddhist Heritage'

Nayanjot Lahiri in conversation with John Keay.

Supported The Hindu

Watch Session Video

47. 'Love Stories'

Pavan Varma, Namita Gokhale, Prasoon Joshi in conversation.

Supported by Ministry of External Affairs (SAARC Division)

Watch Session Video

48. 'Tigernama'

Valmik Thapar followed by 'Animal Palette' Chetan Joshi.

Supported by IPPAI

Watch Session Video

49. 'Speak Memory: The Craft of Memoir'

Girish Karnad, Sudhir Kakar introduced by Arshia Sattar.

Supported The Hindu

Watch Session Video

50. 'Open Road'

Samanth Subramanian, Philip Marsden, Katie Kitamura, Akash Kapur, Tim Butcher, moderated by William Dalrymple.

Supported by British Council

Watch Session Video

51. 'Kavita Kosh: The Rhymopedia'

Hariram Meena, Michael Krüger, Tabish Khair, K. Satchidanandan, Nirupama Dutt, Navtej Bharti, Cheran, OP Valmiki and Manoj Sharma Introduced by Lalit Kumar.

Bhaskar Bhasha Series

Watch Session Video

52. 'Poor Economics'

Abhijit Bannerjee, Amy Chua, Arun Maira and Tarun Das in conversation with Jehangir S. Pocha.

Supported by Times of India

Watch Session Video

53. 'Bibliodiversity : A Long Round Table'

Conversations on publishing.

Watch Session Video

54. 'Lucknow Boy'

Vinod Mehta in conversation with Tarun Tejpal.

Watch Session Video

The US $50,000 DSC Prize celebrates the richness and diversity of South Asian writing and works of fiction in English or translated to English from any language are eligible. It is open to authors from across the globe as long as the writing is about South Asia. 

Watch Session Video