Bangalore Literature Festival 2012

Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) invites all lovers of the written word and bibliophiles to a three-day literary extravaganza that will bring together leading local, national and international authors. Bangalore Literature Festival is all set to become a very imaginative flagship arts and culture event in Bangalore and in the Indian and international literary circuit. BLF 2012 will witness a congregation of modern and contemporary thinkers and writers who will discuss and debate literature, life, poetry and books. The Festival will also showcase the best of Carnatic, and folk performances.

Registration Free- All are Welcome.

The Venue

Jayamahal Palace – a heritage hotel located in the heart of the city, belonging to the Royal Family of Gondal.

Dates

7th, 8th and 9th December, 2012. 

Schedule:

Friday | December 7, 2012 | Front Lawns

4:30 PM	Inauguration and launch of Beantown - BLF Literary Journal
5:30 – 6:30 PM	BLF Inaugural Plenary: "Have you seen the Soul?"–The Craft Of Poetry; Two Friends In Conversation: Gulzar and Pavan Varma
6:30 – 7:15 PM	Session 1- Crossfire with Chetan Bhagat
7:15 – 9:00 PM	"Strings Attached" - Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh on the Veena and Vidwan R. Kumaresh on the Violin

Saturday | December 8, 2012 | Front Lawns 

9:30 – 10:30 AM	Session 1 - Srujana Sheelathe: Creativity in Writing Baragur Ramachandrappa, Chandrashekhara Kamabara, K. S. Nissar Ahmed and U R Ananthamurthy | Moderator: Manu Chakravarthy
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Session 2 - "Nazm aur Tarkash" Poetry with Gulzar and Javed Akhtar
11:30 – 12:30 PM	Session 3 - Chronicling Lives: Biographies and Memoirs Launch of "Durbar" by Tavleen Singh followed by discussion Ajoy Bose, Bhawana Somaaya, Tavleen Singh and Vikram Sampath | Moderator: Sunil Sethi
1:15 – 2:15 PM	Session 4 - The Business of Books Caroline Newbury, Gautam Padmanabhan, Karthika V.K., Prakash Kambathalli and Sanjana Roy Choudhury | Moderator: Annie Chandy
2:15 – 3:15 PM	Session 5 - Ferment in West Asia B. Raman, I. P. Khosla and John D. Balian Moderator: C. V. Ranganathan
3:15 – 4:15 PM	Session 6 - Playing the Write Game Shehan Karunatilaka, Suresh Menon, Vinod Naidu Moderator: Boria Majumdar
4:15 – 5:15 PM	Session 7 - Sobha Developers presents Experience, Memory and Stories Anita Nair, Biman Nath, Kavery Nambisan and Manju Kapur | Moderator: Usha K. R.
5:15 – 6:00 PM	Session 8 - Literature in the Twitter Era Harish Bijoor and Sudheendra Kulkarni Moderator: K. Vaitheeswaran
6:00 – 7:00 PM	Session 9 - The World in Verse Jayant Kaikini, Khaleelur Rehman, Sampurna Chattarji and Shaista Yousuf | Moderator: Mamta Sagar
7:15 – 9:00 PM	Yakshagana - 'Vali Moksha' by Keremane Shivananda Hegde Troupe

Sunday | December 9, 2012 | Front Lawns

9:30 – 10:30 AM	Session 1 - Hosa Ale: New Waves in Kannada Literature Banu Mushtaq, Jayant Kaikini, Kum Vee Bhadrappa and Vaidehi | Moderator: Prakash Belawadi
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Session 2 - Is Fiction losing its Magic? Jahnavi Barua, Jaishree Misra, Shashi Deshpande and Tarquin Hall | Moderator: Sunil Sethi
11:30 – 12:30 PM	Session 3 - Stage of Life: Mahesh Dattani in conversation with Ashish Sen
1:30 – 2:15 PM	Session 4 - Tete-a-tete with Amish Tripathi | Moderator: Deepthi Talwar
2:15 – 3:15 PM	Session 5 - Hark the New Brigade! Aroon Raman, Shefalee Vasudev, Sudeep Nagarkar, Vikrant Dutta and Yasmeen Premji | Moderator: Shoba Narayan
3:15 – 4:15 PM	Session 6 - Bangalore/Bengaluru: Multiple City? Prakash Belawadi, Ramya, Shobhaa De, T. V. Mohandas Pai and U R Ananthamurthy, | Moderator: V Ravichandar
4:15 – 5:15 PM	Session 7 - Milk Route presents Scripting India: Launch of 'Tales from Shining and Sinking India' by Akash Banerjee followed by discussion Akash Banerjee, Akash Kapur, Nandan Nilekani, Sanjeev Sanyal and Sir Mark Tully | Moderator: Pavan Varma
5:15 – 6:00 PM	Session 8 - Launch of 'Sethji' by Shobhaa De followed by Shobhaa De in conversation with Sunil Sethi
6:00 – 6:45 PM	Session 9 - Bangarada Manushya: Bangalore Literature Festival tribute to Dr. Rajkumar Puneeth Rajkumar and Maya Chandra in conversation with Vasanthi Hariprakash Short screening of 'Dr. Rajkumar - An Analysis of the Phenomenon'
6:45 PM	Closing

Makkala Koota - Children's Reading Hour

Saturday | December 8, 2012 | Banquet Hall

2:15 – 3:15 PM	Sahitya Akademi award winning author Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi speaks about his book 'Papu Gandhi Bapu Aadha Kathe'
3:30 – 4:30 PM	'Annual Haircut Day' Q: What does a man have to do when he wants a haircut on the Annual Haircut Day? A: Plenty! Find out the plight of Sringeri Srinivas from the author herself – Noni a.k.a. Rohini Nilekani
4:40 – 5:40 PM	Session with Nadia Budde: Award Winning Children's Illustrator
5:50 – 7:00 PM	Pavan Varma talks about his new book 'Chanakya's New Manifesto: To resolve the crisis within India'

Sunday | December 9, 2012 | Banquet Hall

2:15 – 3:15 PM	Hindustani music performance by students of Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya, Dharwar
3:15 – 4:15 PM	Winter in Bangalore! Steamed and salted groundnuts, cups of hot kaapi with Mala Kumar
4:40 – 6:00 PM	Are there mad motorcyclists out there in space?!? Maybe! Catch Roopa Pai, author of the well-loved Sister Sister Series talk about some crazy characters

Bookends - Post Festival Events

10.12.2012	Talk by Boria Majumdar at Wipro - Details coming soon!
15.12.2012	Launch of William Dalrymple's 'Return of the King' at Bangalore International Centre (BIC) at 6 PM.