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Schedule of Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2015
*Program subject to change
| 21 Jan Wednesday | CHARBAGH | RAJNIGANDHA FRONT LAWNS | GOOGLE MUGHAL TENT | BRITISH AIRWAYS BAITHAK | MAHINDRA HUMANITIES DURBAR HALL | FORD SAMVAD |
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| 10am – 11am | 1. Key Note- “The Poetic Imagination”: Vijay Seshadri, Kedarnath Singh, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra | |||||
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | 2.“Gaate Jaye Banjara: Film Songs- Urdu, Hindi, Hindustani”: Javed Akhtar introduced by Priyanka Chaturvedi Presented by ZEE Entertainment | 3. “Lawrence of Arabia”: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”: Scott Anderson chaired by Jonathan Shainin | 4. “Seven Deadly Sins in Our Time”: Homi K Bhabha, Ashok Vajpeyi, Esther David, Eimear McBride introduced by Namita Gokhale “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 5. “The Quantity Theory of Insanity”: Will Self in conversation with Jeet Thayil | 6. “Binodini: Forgotten Kingdoms, Remembered Histories”: Pradyot Burman and L. Somi Roy in conversation with Janice Pariat | 7. “Wild Magic”: Cat Weatherill |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | 8.“First Triumphs”: Eleanor Catton and Eimear McBride moderated by Razia Iqbal | 9. “The Power of Myth”: Devdutt Pattanaik introduced by Malashri Lal | 10.“The First Crusade”: Peter Frankopan introduced by William Dalrymple | 11. “Deewar, Khidki, Aasman: A Wall, a Window and the Sky”: Vinod Kumar Shukla and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra in conversation with Satti Khanna | 12. “The Intelligence of Tradition”: Molly Emma Aitken introduced by BN Goswamy | 13. Limca Book of Records |
| 1.30pm – 2.15pm Lunch | LUNCH | Book Launch “In Other Words”: Javed Akhtar, Ali Mir Husain and Florence Noiville (for French translation) | Book Launch “Masterchef India CookBook”: Vikas Khanna | LUNCH | LUNCH | Book Launch- “Limca Book of Records” |
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | 14.“Taare Zameen Par”: Prasoon Joshi in conversation with Yatindra Mishra. Introduced by CP Surendran Presented by ZEE Entertainment | 15. “A House for Mr. Biswas”: VS Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Amit Chaudhuri, Paul Theroux. Chaired by Farrukh Dhondy | 16. “Nordic Noir: The Mind’s Eye”: Nils Nordberg and Hakan Nesser, introduced by Indrajit Hazra “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 17. “Anupgiri- The Warrior Yogi”: William Pinch in conversation with William Dalrymple | 18.Readings: “The Incredible Strangeness of Being”: Amrita Tripathi and Maria Chaudhuri, introduced by Anindita Ghose | 19.“From Born Confused to Bombay Blues: New York to a new Mumbai”: Tanuja Desai Hidier in conversation with Monisha Rajesh |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | 20. “The Last Word”: Hanif Kureishi in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury | 21. “And Then One Day”: Naseeruddin Shah and Girish Karnad in conversation. Introduced by Nasreen Munni Kabir | 22.“The Empress Dowager Cixi- The Concubine who launched Modern China”: Jung Chang chaired by Naresh Fernandes | 23. “Take Power”: Ali Cobby Eckerman, Caryl Ferey and Lionel Fogarty in conversation with Florence Noiville | 24.“Homo Sapiens versus the Neanderthals”: Cyprian Broodbank introduced by Tom Holland | 25. “The Case of the Chinese Mastermind”: Ketaki Karnik |
| 4.30pm – 5pm Tea | TEA TIME | Book Launch – “The Seduction of Delhi”: Abhay K | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME : Pushkin Prize | |
| 5pm – 6pm | 26. “They Sing the Wedding of God”: John Napier, Shanti Raman with Kishori Nath, introduced by Malashri Lal | 27. “My Other Life: A Novelist’s Affair with Nonfiction”: Paul Theroux in conversation with Monisha Rajesh | 28. “No Country: The Maps of Memory”: Kalyan Ray with Zia Haider Rahman in conversation with Vedica Kant | 29. “God’s Traitors: Religious Terrorism in Elizabethan England”: Jessie Childs introduced by William Dalrymple | 30. “Parsiana”: Farrukh Dhondy, Keki Daruwalla in conversation with Homi K Bhabha | 31: “Poetry Hour 7X7: Kavita Nirantar”: Neil Rennie, Alexander Kozlov, Oleg Borushko, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Ambika Dutt, CP Deval |
| 6pm – 7 pm | 31. “Faiz and Kaifi- A Poetic Legacy”: Salima Hashmi and Shabana Azmi in conversation (Special Session only for Delegates) | |||||
| 22nd Jan Thursday | CHARBAGH | RAJNIGANDHA FRONT LAWNS | GOOGLE MUGHAL TENT | BRITISH AIRWAYS BAITHAK | MAHINDRA HUMANITIES DURBAR HALL | FORD SAMVAD |
| 10am – 11am | 32. “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher”: Kate Summerscale introduced by Anita Anand | 33. “A Passage to America”: Vijay Seshadri in conversation with Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi | 34. “Pirates of the Indian Ocean- Real and Imaginary”: Neil Rennie introduced by Samanth Subramanian | 35. “Of Beauty and Truth”: SR Faruqi and Bilal Tanweer in conversation. Introduced by Sukrita Paul Kumar | 36. “Aesthetics and Sensuality- Courtly Culture In Early Medieval India”: Daud Ali introduced by BN Goswamy | 37.Lauren Child |
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | 38. “Of Mysteries and Spreadsheets”: Ashwin Sanghi in conversation with Amrita Tripathi | 39. “Descent into Chaos- Pakistan on the Brink”: Ahmed Rashid, Anatol Lieven, Satyabrata Pal, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Christina Lamb, | 40. “Matters of Faith”: Esther David, Keki Daruwalla, Amish Tripathi, Alberto Manguel, Ambi Parameswaran, Rajiv Malhotra in conversation with Arshia Sattar | 41.“My Salinger Years”: Joanna Rakoff in conversation with Chiki Sarkar | 42. “Masterpieces of Jain Art”: Saryu Doshi on Jain Art, introduced by Alka Pande | 43. “Anarkali”: Mandy Ord, Annie Zaidi |
| 12:30pm – 1.30pm | 44. “The Library at Night”: Alberto Manguel in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury | 45. “Mujhe Jeene Do: Conversations with Waheeda Rehman”: Waheeda Rehman and Nasreen Munni Kabir with Arshia Sattar. Introduced by Yatindra Mishra | 46. “A Sting In the Tale”: Dave Goulson on bumble bees, introduced by Valmik Thapar | 47. “Writing Resistance: Of Battles and Skirmishes”: Meena Kandasamy, Ali Cobby Eckerman, Mahua Maji in conversation with Rakhshanda Jalil Presented by U N Women | 48. “The Buddhas of Bamiyan”: Llwelyn Morgan and Barry Flood chaired by William Dalrymple- Presented by Aga Khan Foundation | 49. Ibukun Olantji |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm lunch | LUNCH | Book Launch :“A Private Universe”: Sakti Burman | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | 50. “War, Politics and the Novel”: Helon Habila, Homi K Bhabha,Kamila Shamsie, Kevin Powers, Adam Johnson chaired by Raghu Karnad | 51. “The Signature of All Things”: Elizabeth Gilbert in conversation with Chiki Sarkar | 52. “Urdu aur Tarraqui Pasand Tehreek: The Progressive Movement in Urdu Literature”: Javed Akhtar, Pushpesh Pant, Ali Husain Mir in conversation with Rakhshanda Jalil, introduced by Aakar Patel Presented by Zindagi | 53. “The Father of History”: Tom Holland introduced by Bettany Hughes | 54. “Aaydan: Notes from the Margins”: Urmila Pawar, Sushama Deshpande introduced by Namita Gokhale Presented by U N Women | 55. |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | 56. “Writing Back”: Sahar Delijani, Kamila Shamsie, Meena Kandasamy , Eimear McBride moderated by Ramita Navai Presented by U N Women | 57. “A Rediscovery of India: Agendas for Change”: Bibek Debroy, Subhash Chandra, Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh in conversation with John Elliott Presented by Nikkei Asian Review | 58. “Coming Out: Tales They Don’t Tell”: Mark Gevisser, Sarah Waters, Devdutt Pattanaik, Damon Galgut and Christos Tsoilkas moderated by Sandip Roy | 59. “Mere Samay ke Shabd”: Kedarnath Singh in conversation with Satyanand Nirupam | 60. “How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal That Shook the French Throne”: Jonathan Beckman “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 61. |
| 4.30pm – 5pm Tea | TEA TIME | BOOK LAUNCH “Literally Yours”: Chetaan Joshii, Asha Francis | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME |
| 5pm – 6pm | 62. “Hamlet’s Dilemma”: Vishal Bhardwaj, Basharat Peer, Tim Supple, Jerry Brotton in conversation. Introduced by Suhel Seth Presented by ZEE Entertainment | 63. “Adaptations”: Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, Christos Tsiolkas, Sarah Waters, Lauren Child moderated by Anindita Ghose | 64. “Rajasthan: Out of Bimaru”: Arvind Panagariya, Bibek Debroy,Malvika Singh and Om Thanvi in conversation with Ashok Malik | 65. “Double Lives: Writers as Critics”: Alberto Manguel, Amit Chaudhuri, Will Self, Nicholson Baker in conversation with Homi K Bhabha | 66. “Hum, Tum Aur Voh Truck- Translating the Untranslateable”: Pushpesh Pant, Satti Khanna, Aruni Kashyap, Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation | 67.“Poetry Hour 7X7: Kavita Nirantar”: Fady Joudah, Ibukun Olatunji, Abhay K, Arjun Deo Charan, Keki Daruwalla, Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi, Lionel Fogarty |
| 6pm-7pm | 67 A. DSC PRIZE for South Asian Literature | |||||
| 7.30pm EVENING PERFORMANCE | ||||||
| 23rd Jan Friday | CHARBAGH | RAJNIGANDHA FRONT LAWNS | GOOGLE MUGHAL TENT | BRITISH AIRWAYS BAITHAK | MAHINDRA HUMANITIES DURBAR HALL | FORD SAMVAD |
| 10am – 11am | 68. “Selfie:The Art of the Memoir”: Elizabeth Gilbert, Anchee Min, Mark Gevisser, Brigid Keenan and Joanna Rakoff in conversation with Basharat Peer | 69. “The Conflict of Dharma in the Mahabharata”: Amish Tripathi and Bibek Debroy introduced by Namita Gokhale | 70. “Contemporary Pakistani Art”: Salima Hashmi, Kamila Shamsie and Alka Pande in conversation Presented by AVID Learning | 71. “A Revolution is Brewing”: Sangeeta Bandopadhyay, C. Mrunalini and Sukrita Paul Kumar in conversation with Malashri Lal Presented by UN Women | 72. “The Courtly Arts of Rajasthan”: Molly Emma Aitkin, BN Goswamy, Kavita Singh, Rima Hooja moderated by William Dalrymple | 73. Susmit Sen |
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | 74. “Against the Grain”: Gideon Levy, Aakar Patel, Salima Hashmi, Swapan Dasgupta in conversation with Meru Gokhale | 75. “Wanderlust and the Art of Travel Writing”: Paul Theroux, Charles Glass, Samanth Subramanian, Sam Miller, Christina Lamb in conversation with William Dalrymple | 76. “Clearing a Space: Between Fact and Fiction”: Raj Kamal Jha and Amit Chaudhuri in conversation with Ashok Ferrey | 77. “Tigers in Red Weather”: Valmik Thapar with Ruth Padel | 78. “A Thousand Stories: Tales of Hope and Dispossession”: Hansda Sowvendra and Aruni Kashyap introduced by Urvashi Butalia | 79. “Pashu: Animal Tales from Hindu Mythology”: Devdutt Pattanaik |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | 80. “Shadow Play: The Art of Biography”: Jenny Uglow, Jung Chang, Mark Gevisser, Kate Summerscale, Lucy Hughes Hallet moderated by Anita Anand | 81. “India Shastra”: Shashi Tharoor, Mihir Sharma in conversation with Amrita Tripathi | 82. “The End of Antiquity and the Rise of Monotheism”: Tom Holland and Barry Flood chaired by Peter Frankopan | 83. “Rajasthani Lekhan: Astitva aur Asmita”: Aidan Singh Bhati, Arjun Deo Charan and Ambika Dutt in conversation with Nand Bhardwaj. Introduced by Jyotika Diggi | 84. “The Spirit of Indian Painting”: BN Goswamy introduced by William Dalrymple | 85. Arshia Sattar |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm lunch | LUNCH | Book Launch – “Kuchh Dhundhli Tasveeren” by Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh, Book release by Kedarnath Singh | Book Launch: “Flavours of the Frontier: Forgotten Recipes from Dera Ismail Khan” | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | 86. “The Murty Classical Library of India”: Rohan Murty, Sheldon Pollock, Navtej Sarna, Rakhshanda Jalil, Maithree Wickramasinghe, C Mrunalini, Yatindra Mishra Presented by Harvard University Press | 87 .“On Malala”: Christina Lamb with Ahmed Rashid and Anatol Lieven, introduced by Suhasini Haider Presented by U N Women | 88.“What the Doctor Ordered: Prescriptive Economics and the Science of Uncertainity”: Tarun Khanna, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ashok Malik in conversation with Mihir Sharma | 89. “Jagat Guru: The Syncretic World of Sultan Abrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur”: Deborah Hutton, Kavita Singh, Molly Emma Aitkin chaired by William Dalrymple | 90. “Sri Lanka: Through the Looking Glass”: Samanth Subramanian, Romesh Gunesekera, Ashok Ferry in conversation. | 91. “From Here to Hogwarts”: Samit Basu |
| 3.30pm – 4.30pm | 92. “Basic Instinct”: Hanif Kureishi, Deepti Kapoor, Sarah Waters and Nicholson Baker in conversation with Parul Sehgal “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 93. “Romance, Tragedy and Truth Telling: The Red Sari and Other Stories”: Javier Moro, Florence Noiville in conversation with Madhu Trehan | 94. “Sophia Duleep Singh: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary”: Anita Anand introduced by Navtej Sarna | 95. “East South Asia”: Tshering Tashi, Pradyot Burman, L. Somi Roy, Wipas Srithong moderated by Prashant Jha | 96.“Hitler’s Secret Bankers: Has Switzerland Profited from the Holocaust?”: Adam LeBor | 97. “The Fox and the Crow: Karadi Tales”: Shobha Viswanath and Manasi Subramaniam in conversation |
| 4.30pm – 5pm Tea | TEA TIME | Book Launch: “Rabindranath Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations”: Malashri Lal | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME |
| 5pm – 6pm | 98. “Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Future”: Tarun Khanna in conversation with Rahul Jacob | 99. “Reading Africa, Writing Africa”: Damon Galgut, Mark Gevisser, Hisham Matar, Helon Habila in conversation with Kwasi Kwarteng | 100. “Kathputli: Of Puppets and Puppeteers” | 101.“The First Firangis in a Strange Kind of Paradise”: Jonathan Gil Harris and Sam Miller in conversation with William Dalrymple | 102. “Toxic Legacy: The Bhopal Gas Tragedy”: Javier Moro, John Elliott, Salil Tripathi in conversation. | 103. “Poetry Hour 7X7: Kavita Nirantar”: Kevin Powers, Ruth Padel, Aidan Singh Bhati, CP Surendran, Ashok Vajpeyi, Wipas Srithong, Vishvjit Prithvijit Singh |
| 6pm – 7pm | 103 Press Conference – Amish Tripathi | |||||
| 24th Jan Saturday | CHARBAGH | RAJNIGANDHA FRONT LAWNS | GOOGLE MUGHAL TENT | BRITISH AIRWAYS BAITHAK | MAHINDRA HUMANITIES DURBAR HALL | FORD SAMVAD |
| 10am – 11am | 104. “Why a Library of Classical Indian Literature?”: Girish Karnad, Sheldon Pollock with Arshia Sattar – Presented by Murty Classical Library of india | 105. “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduced by Simon Singh | 106. “The Man and the Mahatma”: Pramod Kapoor, Makarand Paranjape, Nand Kishore Acharya in conversation | 107. “Imagine: From to Clarice Bean to Charlie And Lola”: Lauren Child in conversation with Tanuja Desai Hidier | 108.Readings: “Untold Stories, Unclimbed Mountains”: Wipas Srithong, Tshering Tashi introduced by Janice Pariat | 109.“Muthoni’s Necklace and Other Tales”: Cat Weatherill |
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | 110. “The Twilight Zone: Between Arabs and Israelis”: Kai Bird, Gideon Levy, Adam LeBor, Fady Joudah, Navtej Sarna moderated by Hardeep Singh Puri | 111 . “Dance Like a Man: Refiguring Masculinity”: Kanishk Tharoor, Mukul Deva, Christos Tsiolkas, Shobhaa De in conversation with Ashok Ferrey | 112. “A History of the World in Twelve Maps”: Jerry Brotton introduced by Kwasi Kwarteng | 113. “The Mother I Never Knew”: Sudha Murty in conversation with Namita Gokhale | 114. “Family Life”: Akhil Sharma, Maria Chaudhuri, Mira Jacob, Marcel Theroux and Sandip Roy in conversation with Parul Sehgal | 115. “The Horrid High”: Payal Kapadia |
| 12:30pm – 1.30pm | 116.“Deconstructing Change: The Election That Changed India”: Rajdeep Sardesai in conversation with Madhu Trehan and Mihir Sharma | 117. “Beautiful Offspring: The Art of Historical Fiction”: Elizabeth Gilbert, Sarah Waters, Damon Galgut, Kamila Shamsie and Eleanor Catton in conversation with Razia Iqbal | 118. “Novel Cures”: Ella Berthoud and Indrajit Hazra in conversation with Samit Basu | 119. “Terror and Faith”: Peter Frankopan, Jessie Childs, William Pinch, Ahmed Rashid and Llwelyn Morgan | 120. “Rasika: Understanding Indian Aesthetics”: Ashok Vajpeyi, Alka Pande, Yatindra Mishra in conversation. Introduced by Sanjoy Roy | 121. “Ignited Minds”: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Presented by Aga Khan Foundation |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm lunch | LUNCH | Book Launch: “The Front Row”: Anupama Chopra | Book Launch: “Ocean to Ocean”: Susmit Sen | LUNCH | LUNCH | Launch of the Bal Bhavan Book “Chhote Haath Badi Baat” |
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | 122. “The Writer and The World”: VS Naipaul in conversation with Farrukh Dhondy | 123. “The Medium is the Message”: Nigel Harris, Ravish Kumar, Madhu Trehan and Kalpesh Yagnik moderated by Amrita Tripathi | 124. “Meltdown in the Middle East”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Gideon Levy, Charles Glass, Fady Joudah, Hisham Matar | 125. “Zamana Humse Hai: New Words, New Worlds”: Mahua Maji, Anu Singh Choudhary, Ramkumar Singh, Satyanand Nirupam in conversation with Sudhir Chaudhary Presented by ZEE Entertainment | 126. “War and Gold- A Five Hundred Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt”: Kwasi Kwarteng moderated by Tarun Khanna “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 127. Bhakti Mathur |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | 128.“Kahani ki Nayi Karvat”: Ravish Kumar in conversation with Anu Singh Choudhary | 129 .“52 Ways of Looking at a Poem”: Jeet Thayil, Vijay Seshadri, Kevin Powers, Neil Rennie, Ashok Vajpeyi chaired by Ruth Padel Announcing the winner for the Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry | 130. “Cities and their Shadows”: Navtej Sarna, Esther David,Yatindra Mishra, Malvika Singh. | 131. “Indian Cricket at the Crossroads”: James Astill, Soumya Bhattacharya in conversation with Shashi Tharoor and Rajdeep Sardesai | 132.“Dingal Pingal Ko Jodo: The Poetic Rhythms of Rajasthali”: Rajendra Singh Barhath and Gopal Prasad Mudgal in conversation with CP Deval | 133. “Evolution of Jazz”: Joe Alvares |
| 4:30pm – 5pm Tea | TEA TIME | Book Launch: “The Garud Strikes”: Mukul Deva | Book Launch : “Ladakh: Knowing the Unknown”: Sangeeta Gupta | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME |
| 5pm – 6pm | 134. “The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets”: Simon Singh introduced by Anuradha Sengupta | 135.“The Visionary: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam”: APJ Abdul Kalam in conversation with Bibek Debroy Presented by ZEE Entertainment | 136. “Narrative: Putting the Story Back into History”: Gilbert King, Jenny Uglow, Gary Bass, Jerry Brotton and Jessie Childs in conversation with Swapan Dasgupta | 137. “India: A Space Odyssey”: Pallava Bagla, Subhadra Menon, K.Radhakrishnan in conversation | 138. “Fingersmith”: Sarah Waters in conversation with Avantika Sujan | 139. “Poetry Hour 7X7: Kavita Nirantar”: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Helon Habila, Malchand Tiwari, Meena Kandasamy, Aruni Kashyap, Nand Kishore Acharya, Winner of Khushwant Singh Prize |
| 6pm – 7 pm | 139. “Why the Ancients Matter”: Llewelyn Morgan, Cyprian Broodbank, Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Bettany Hughes moderated by Arshia Sattar | |||||
| 25th Jan Sunday | CHARBAGH | RAJNIGANDHA FRONT LAWNS | GOOGLE MUGHAL TENT | BRITISH AIRWAYS BAITHAK | MAHINDRA HUMANITIES DURBAR HALL | FORD SAMVAD |
| 10am – 11am | 140. “The Spinner of Tales”: Chetan Bhagat in conversation with Meru Gokhale | 141. “Red Azalea”: Anchee Min in conversation with Anindita Ghose | 142. “India’s Turn: Catalyzing Economic Transformation”: Arvind Subramanian, Narayan Murthy and Rahul Jacob in conversation | 143. “Anatomy of Disappearance”: Hisham Matar in conversation with Razia Iqbal | 144. “On Land, At Sea”: Janice Pariat and Kanishk Tharoor, introduced by Pradyot Burman | 145. “Extraordinary Comics”: Mandy Ord |
| 11:15am – 12:15pm | 146. “The CIA and the Wilderness of Mirrors”: Kai Bird, Charles Glass and Scott Anderson moderated by Jonathan Shainin | 147. “Arms and the Man: The Bangladesh Bloodbath”: Salil Tripathi, Gary Bass, Mukul Deva, Sadaf Saaz Siddiqi in conversation | 148. “The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life”: Bettany Hughes introduced by Avantika Sujan | 149. “Sanskrit: The Living Heritage”: Satya Vrat Shastri introduced by Sushma Singhvi | 150. “Writing the Other”: Damon Galgut, Adam Johnson in conversation with Akash Kapur | 151. “Jump into The Ramayan- Engaging Children in Indian Painting”: Saker Mistri and Mamta Mangaldas Presented by Aga Khan Foundation |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | 152. “The Theatre of War”: Vedica Kant, Amarinder Singh, Burak Ackapar in conversation with John Elliott | 153. “The Phenomenon: Rajesh Khanna”: Gautam Chintamani, Yasser Usman in conversation with Shobhaa De | 154. “Granta on India”: Amit Chaudhuri, Samanth Subramaniam, Deepti Kapoor and Sam Miller moderated by Ian Jack Presented by Granta | 155. “Vox”: Nicholson Baker in conversation with Jeet Thayil | 156. “Streeshakti”: Lata Sharma, Mridula Behari, Anshu Harsh in conversation introduced by Om Thanvi | 157. “Reaching for the Stars”: Subhadra Menon |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm lunch | LUNCH | Ojas Art Award | Book Launch: “Tears of the Crying Squad”: CP Surendran | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 2:15 pm- 3:15pm | 158. “Cultural Revolutions”: Jung Chang, Ma Jian and Anchee Min in conversation with Anuradha SenGupta | 159. “Ankahee: What Must Not Be Said”: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Urvashi Butalia, CP Surendran in conversation with Salil Tripathi | 160. “The Devil in the Grove: Racism, Murder and Rape in the Deep South”: Gilbert King introduced by Akash Kapur “The Indian Quarterly presents the 7 Deadly Sins” | 161. “Nepal: In Search of a Constitution”: Prashant Jha, Kai Bird in conversation with Pushpesh Pant | 162.“The Pike- Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War”: Lucy Hughes Hallet introduced by Swapan Dasgupta | 163. Simar Malhota, Jaspreet Kalra, Tanessa Puri and Udayan Sharma in conversation with Puneeta Roy |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | 164. “All That Jazz”: Joe Alvares in conversation with Naresh Fernandes | 165. “The Lunar Men -The Inventors, Artisans and Tycoons who Made the Future”: Jenny Uglow introduced by Simon Singh | 166. “Devil’s Advocate: Ram Jethmalani”: Ram Jethmalani in conversation with Madhu Trehan introduced by Shobhaa De | 167. “In Exile”: Sahar Delijani, Ma Jian, Fady Joudah, Hisham Matar, Anchee Min moderated by Ramita Navai | 168. “Chaturbik”: Malchand Tiwari, Ram Kumar Singh introduced by Lata Sharma | 169 |
| 4.30pm – 5pm Tea | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME | TEA TIME |
| 5pm – 6pm | 170. Debate- “Culture is the New Politics”: Swapan Dasgupta, Suhel Seth, Rajiv Malhotra, Pavan Varma, Tarun Vijay |
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