Saturday Day III

DURBAR HALL

MUGHAL TENT

BAITHAK

FRONT LAWNS

10am – 11am

Freedom for Sale

Anne Applebaum, John Kampfner, Meghnad Desai, Niall Ferguson, Steve Coll in conversation with Tarun Tejpal

Presented By Surrendra Paul Memorial

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Journey to Childhood- Writing for Young Readers
Francois Roca,  Roddy Doyle, Marion Bataille, Kancha Ilaiah. Moderated by Sayoni Basu

Bhaskar Bhasha Series
Absent Traveler

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra in conversation with Alka Pande

Entertaining India

Key Note Address by Girish Karnad

Presented by The Helen Hamlyn Trust

11am – 12pm

Writing about Music

Ameen Merchant, Yatindra Mishra, Mimlu Sen, Louis De Bernieres, Yatindra Mishra Moderated by Sunil Sethi

Bhaskar Bhasha Series
Ab Aur Nahin- An End to Suffering

Readings by Dalit Writers Ajay Navaria & OP Valmiki in conversation with S.S. Nirupam Introduction by Christophe Jaffrelot

Bin Laden After Bush

Lawrence Wright, Max Rodenbeck, Steve Coll. Moderated by Basharat Peer.

12pm – 1pm

Wanderlust

Brigid Keenan, Geoff Dyer, Isabel Hilton, William Dalrymple

In conversation

Stephen Frears in conversation with Rahul Bose

In a Tough Neighbourhood

Ali Sethi, Asma Jahangir, Romesh Gunasekera, Shazia Omar, Shyam Saran. Moderated by Siddharth Varadarajan.

1pm – 2.30pm

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

Navtej Sarna – Exile and Kingdom

2.30pm – 3.30pm

Migrant Words

Hanif Kureishi, Sadia Shepard, Tania James & Tishani Doshi

Presented by Oliver Wyman

Blue, White, Red.. Readings & Discussions

Alain Mabanckou, Veronique Tadjo in conversation with Marc Parent

Presented by Bonjour India

The Lonely Planet Story

Tony Wheeler, William Dalrymple

3.30pm – 4.30pm

The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson. Moderated by Omair Ahmad

Of Women, Rebels & Peasants

Nandini Sundar and Dilip Simeon. Introduced by Namita Gokhale.

Bhaskar Bhasha Series

Kavya Samvad..Poetry Readings

Nand Bhardwaj & Sheen Kaaf Nizam in conversation with Vinod Padraj

4.30pm – 5pm

TEA

TEA

TEA

Book Launch – Daisy Hassan

5pm – 6pm

In Search of an Indian Almond Tree

Ma Thida & Shazia Omar. Moderated by Malashri Lal

Vatsayan & the Erotic

Ruchir Joshi, Sudhir Kakar

Presented by D

Teen Deviyan

Anjum Hasan, Ira Trivedi.  Introduction by Chetan Bhagat

6pm – 7pm

Faiz Ahmed Faiz- A Tribute

Ali Sethi & Salima Hashmi Introduced by Shohid Malik with Shabana Azmi & Javed Akhtar