Programme
Day - 1 20 th May
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Opening Ceremony | — | — | — | — |
11:10 AM – 12:00 PM Thinking With Tharoor: Ideas for a Brave New World Shashi Tharoor in conversation | — | — | — | — |
12:10 PM – 1:00 PM Social-media & Responsible Freedom B Surendar, Nirmala Govindarajan (M), Tony Francis | 12:10 PM – 1:00 PM Pets: Our Next Generation Anindita Ghose, Manu Bhattathiri, Nandita Bose (M) | 12:10 PM – 1:00 PM Poetry Reading Arundhathi Subramaniam, Mamta Sagar, Pratibha Nandakumar, Sudeep Sen | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Unplugged Music Session Presanth PS & Akhilesh Kumar | — |
1:10 PM – 2:00 PM The Queen of Indian Pop Usha Uthup in conversation | 1:10 PM – 2:00 PM Old Tales and New Myths Alka Pande, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Benu Verma (M), Shweta Taneja | 1:10 PM – 2:00 PM Reading Aloud as an Act of Seduction Andaleeb Wajid, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Kiran Manral, Meghna Pant, Milan Vohra, Shinie Antony (M)) | 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Poetry Reading Sabah Ahmed with an intro by Preeti Gill | — |
2.10 PM – 3:00PM Fiction as Motivation Preeti Shenoy in conversation with Preeti Das | 2.10 PM – 3:00 PM The Village in Indian Fiction Aruna Nambiar, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Manu Bhattathiri, Nirmala Govindarajan (M) | 2.10 PM – 3:00 PM The Gangster State and Revenge Politics Shrabonti Bagchi (M), Sourjya Bhowmick, Ullekh NP | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Reimagining Bharatanatyam Priyanka Chandrasekhar | — |
3:10 PM – 4:00 PM Brave New Histories Vikram Sampath in conversation with Ravi Chakraborty | 3:10 PM – 4:00 PM New Vernacular of Indian Cinema CS Venkiteswaran (M), Kamal K M, Natesh Hedge | 3:10 PM – 4:00 PM Art in Uncertain Times Alka Pande, Riyas Komu, Ullekh NP (M) | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Unplugged Music Session Sidharth Bendi & Rohit Samuel | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Favourite Things Performed by Malavika PC Sound by Anushka Meenakshi |
4:10 PM – 5:00 PM Humans of COVID Barkha Dutt in conversation with Kiran Manral | — | 4:10 PM – 5:00 PM Comic Books as an Art Form Appupen, Pinaki De, Shweta Taneja (M) | 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Poetry Reading Pratibha Nandakumar & Mamta Sagar | — |
— | 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM Music Night by Usha Uthup | — | — | — |
— | 6:30 – 7:15 PM Stand-up Comedy by Kenny Sebastian | — | — | 7:00 – 8:00 PM Rock Concert by “Indian Ocean” |
Day - 2 21st May
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10:30 AM – 11.30 AM History: Whose Narrative? Manu S Pillai in conversation with Liju Kuriakose | 10:30 AM – 11.30 AM My Country Is Literature: Reading For Pleasure and Power Chandrahas Choudhury in conversation with Ravi Chakraborthy | 10:30 AM – 11.30 AM Justice in a Brave New World Justice G.S Sistani in conversation with Kiran Gardner | — | 11:00 PM – 12:00 PM Favourite Things Performed by Malavika PC Sound by Anushka Meenakshi |
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM
The Rise of Cancel Culture in India R Jagannathan in conversation with Vikram Zutshi | 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM ādhyātmika prayāṇa into a Brave New World Vinay Guruji | 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Panjab: The Story Amandeep Sandhu, Karthik Venkatesh (M), Preeti Gill | 11:30 PM – 1:00 PM Unplugged Music Session Rahul Chidambaram & Madhu | — |
12:40 PM – 1:30 PM Literature in Indian Languages Arindham Das (M), Damodar Mauzo, Vasudhendra | 12:40 PM – 1:30 PM The Narrative of Abuse Meghna Pant, Nandita Bose, Preeti Das (M) | 12:40 PM – 1:30 PM Boy Meets Girl Andaleep Wajid, Milan Vohra, Shinie Antony (M), Vani Mahesh | 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM Poetry Reading Arundhathi Subramaniam & Mani Rao | — |
1:40 PM – 2:30 PM Where do Indians Come From? Tony Joseph in conversation with Amandeep Sandhu | 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM Refiguring Cultural Spaces C S Venkiteswaran, Gaana Jayagopalan (M), Meena T Pillai | 1:40 PM – 2:30 PM Rewriting Women in Epics Madhavi S Mahadevan in conversation with Mani Rao | 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Poetry Reading Sabah Ahmad | — |
2:40 PM – 3: 30 PM Uncovering the Hidden Truth Josy Joseph in conversation with V Ravichandar | 2:40 PM – 3: 30 PM The Illuminated: Women’s Voices in Fiction Anindita Ghose in conversation with Abhayan Varghese | 2:40 PM – 3: 30 PM On Modern Relationships Andaleep Wajid, Meghna Pant, Nandita Bose, Nirmala Govindarajan, Tony Francis (M) | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Reimagining Bharatanatyam Priyanka Chandrasekhar) | — |
3:40 PM – 4: 30 PM Film Criticism in the Age of Social-Media CS Venkiteswaran (M), Sucharita Tyagi, Meena T Pillai | 3:40 PM – 4: 30 PM Artist as Ideator Riyas Komu in conversation with Abhayan Varghese (M) | 3:40 PM – 4:30 PM The Life of A Spy Prabhakar Aloka in conversation | 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Poetry Reading Sudeep Sen | — |
4:40 PM – 5:30 PM Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation Sudeep Sen reading in conversation with Abhayan Varghese | _ | 4:40 PM – 5: 30 PM Publishing Amidst Information Overload Himanjali Sankar, Karthik Venkatesh, Preeti Gill (M), Premanka Goswami, Shinie Antony | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Unplugged Music Session Presanth PS & Akhilesh Kumar | 4:30 – 6:00 PM Contemporary Art Performance Dimple B Shah |
5:30 – 7:00 PM Stand-up Comedy by Mahila Manch | — | — | — | — |
— | 7:00 – 8:00 PM Rock Concert by Indian Ocean | — | — | — |
