Thursday Day I
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DURBAR HALL
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MUGHAL TENT
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BAITHAK
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FRONT LAWNS
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10am - 11am
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Inauguration
Key Note Address by-Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Presented by The Helen Hamlyn Trust
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11am -12pm
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Literature and The Gods
Roberto Calasso in conversation with Devdutt Pattnaik, Ananya Vajpeyi
Presented by The Helen Hamlyn Trust
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The Art of Criticism
Andrew ‘O Hagan, Geoff Dyer, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitava Kumar Introduced by Nilanjana, S. Roy
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Figures in Black
Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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12pm - 1pm
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Bhaskar Bhasha Series
Bhasha Swar: Multiple Voices
Ashok Vajpeyi, Arvind K Mehrotra, Gulzar, K Satchidanandan
Presented by GAIL
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Two Lives: Jane Austen & Kipling
Andrew Lycett & Claire Tomalin. Introduced by Nilanjana S. Roy
Presented by London Library
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Coming of Age - Readings
Ali Sethi & Esther Freud. Introduced by Sadia Shepard
Presented by Baillie Gifford
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1pm - 2.30pm
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LUNCH
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LUNCH
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LUNCH
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Book Launch: Love Jaipur by Fiona Caufield
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2.30pm - 3.30pm
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Bhaskar Bhasha Series
Raja Ravi Varma: On the Classical & the Popular
Rupika Chawla & Sudha Gopalakrishnan
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Visible Cities
Geoff Dyer, Max Rodenbeck. Moderated by Maya Jasanoff.
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Exile and the Kingdom
Navtej Sarna, Shrabani Basu. Introduced by Susanne Rudolph
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3.30pm - 4.30pm
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Neglected Poems - Poetry & Readings
Pavan and Gulzar. Introduced by Neeta Gupta
Presented by TOI Crest
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Adaptations
Michael Frayn, Esther Freud, Louis De Bernieres. Moderated by Rahul Bose
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On the Gulag
Anne Applebaum in conversation with Tunku Varadarajan
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4.30pm - 5pm
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TEA
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TEA
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TEA
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Book Launch by Tara Publishers - Marion Bataille
Presented by Bonjour India
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5pm -6pm
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Kaifi & I
Shabana Azmi reads from her mother Shaukat Kaifi's memoirs. Introduced by Urvashi Butalia
Presented by DNA
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Talking Writing
Film on Mahasweta Devi followed by an interaction with the film maker Naveen Kishore
Presented by Helen Hamlyn Trust
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Tea time for the Traditionally Built
Alexander McCall Smith. Moderated by William Dalrymple
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6pm -7 pm
EVENING PERFORMANCE
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Tughlaq
Readings by Om Puri Introduced by Girish Karnad
Presented by Jubilant Organosys Limited
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