Bangalore Literature Fest 2013

The Bangalore Literature Festival [BLF] fêtes reading and writing. Bookworms and bibliophiles are invited to bask in the winter sun in the Garden City of India and meet writers from everywhere — local, national and international — as this festival brings the world to 'Namma Bengaluru'. BLF celebrates this creative spirit of the city popular as the Garden City of India and commemorates the literary diversity it offers, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world of literature within and outside India.

The Venue

Crowne Plaza @ Velankani Park | Electronics City, Bangalore

Dates

27^th, 28^th and 29^th September, 2013. 

 Participation in the Bangalore Literature Festival is free and open to all! However, we do require that you do a one-time registration (valid for all three days) in advance so we know that you will be coming. Registration only entitles the holder to entry to the Festival and does not include any additional products or services. Food and beverage will be available for purchase through the day at the Festival food court. There is no accommodation available at the Festival.

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Friday | September 27, 2013

TIME	LAWN 1	LAWN 2	MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children
10:00 – 11.30	Dollukunita – Folk Performance of Karnataka BLF 2013 Opening by Chandrashekhara Kambara, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Ramakant Rath, Ramachandra Guha, Christoph Bertrams and Vikram Sampath Launch of the Festival edition of Beantown
11.30 – 12.30	A Celebration of Love & Life – An intimate note to the sincere seeker Writing on Spirituality with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living		Slam Poetry Workshop with Bas Botcher
12.30 – 1:30	HeLatthena kELa: Kambararondhige Sahithya Sallaapa Dr Chandrashekhara Kambara in conversation with C. Naganna	The First Book Club Varun Agarwal, Aditya Mukherjee, Lavanya Sankaran, Preeti Shenoy Moderator: Vani Mahesh
1:30 – 3:00	The Making of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: Has Indian cinema finally woken up to bio-pics? Farhan Akhtar, Prasoon Joshi and Rakeysh Mehra in conversation with Bhawana Somaaya
3:00 – 4:00	Co-existence of Commercial and Literary Writing in India - Myth or Reality? David Davidar and Kapish Mehra with Nilanjana Roy	Talking Couture - Chronicling Fashion Wendell Rodricks in conversation with Prasad Bidappa	Workshop with Janaki Murali
4:00 – 5:00	Is Bhasha being subsumed by English? Ashok Vajpeyi, U R Ananthamurthy and Ramakant Rath Moderator: K. Satchidanandan	Traversing geographies, poetically Athena Kashyap, Vibha Rani and Aurélia Lassaque Moderator: Shikha Malviya
5:00 – 6:00	Launch of Kishwar Desai's ‘The Sea of Innocence’ Endangered Gender? Madhu Kishwar, Gita Aravamudan, Kishwar Desai and Shobhaa De Moderator: Vasanthi Hariprakash	Partners in Crime and Fantasy Anita Nair, Madhulika Liddle and Nilanjana Roy Moderator: Sumeet Shetty
6:00 – 7:00	William Dalrymple Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi (1707-1857)
7:00 – 9:00	Carnatic Violin Duet by Mysore Brothers – Dr. Manjunath & Shri Nagaraj and party A Bangalore International Arts Festival presentation
	NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes.

Saturday | September 28, 2013

TIME	LAWN 1	LAWN 2	MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children
10:00 – 11.00	Aao phir nazm kahein with Gulzar and Prasoon Joshi
11.00 – 12.00	Literati, Marginalia et al. - The Anatomy of Literature Festivals William Dalrymple, Anjum Katyal and Nirmala Lakshman Moderator: Vikram Sampath	NaanEruva ettharake neenEra balleya? Kannada Sahithyada Chaturmukharu Works of Great Masters of Kannada Literature Narahalli Balasubrahmanya, Dr. K S Bhagavan, Dr. B Viveka Rai and Giraddi Govindaraju Moderator: Vikram Visaji	Write Better Workshop for Young Writers with Vivek Krishnaswamy Timing and details to be confirmed shortly
12.00 – 1:00	From Screen to Page: Writing on Indian Cinema Baradwaj Rangan, Siddharth Bhatia, M. K. Raghavendra and Nasreen Munni Kabir Moderator: Sharmistha Gooptu	The Ashwin Key: Writing on Mythology Ashwin Sanghi in conversation with Deepti Talwar
1:00 – 2:00	Launch of Babar Ayaz's ‘What's wrong with Pakistan?’ The South Asian Voice: Writing for Ourselves Kanak Dixit, Farah Ghuznavi, Ashok Ferry, Babar Ayaz and Mira Hashmi Moderator: Laxmi Murthy A HIMĀL Southasian presentation	City Lights: On Urban writing Usha K. R., Nirmala Lakshman, Kishwar Desai, Anita Nair Moderator: Lavanya Sankaran	Children's Session with Gulzar & Prasoon Joshi Timing and details to be confirmed shortly
2:00 – 3:00	Solla sobagu: AaDu nuDiya sahithya sogaDu: Oral literary languages of Karnataka - Tulu, Kodava, Konkani and Beary B. M. Hanif, Dr. Chinnappa Gowda, Dr. Rekha Vasanth and Prof. Edwin J. F. D’souza Moderator: Dr. B. Viveka Rai	The Aural and the Visual: Writing on the Performing Arts Lakshmi Viswanathan, Anjum Katyal and Vikram Sampath Moderator: Madhu Nataraj	Sessions by Bookalore Details to be confirmed shortly
3:00 – 4:00	The Novel and the People: Is Indian Fiction Moving Away from Indian Reality? Govind Mishra, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Ashoka Mitran and Nabaneeta Dev Sen Moderator: K. Satchidanandan A Central Sahitya Akademi presentation	Devabhasha to Lokabhasha: Sanskrit, then and now C M Krishnasastry, Prof. Mallepuram G Venkatesh and Prof. M. B. Srinidhi Moderator: Prof. B. Mahadevan A Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan presentation	Sessions by Bookalore Details to be confirmed shortly
4:00 – 5:00	Launch of Shashi Deshpande's ‘Shadow Play’ Are we becoming a Bestseller generation? Shashi Deshpande, Shobhaa De, Ashwin Sanghi and Ian Jack Moderator: Karthika V. K.	Building bridges: Not lost in Translation Saskya Jain, Ashok Vajpeyi, Bhawana Somaaya and Dr. C. N. Ramachandran Moderator: Keerti Ramachandra	Sessions by Bookalore Details to be confirmed shortly
5:00 – 6:00	Is economic development a garb for hard Right politics?: The Gujarat Model Madhu Kishwar, Kingshuk Nag and Hartosh Singh Bal Moderator: Veeraraghav TM	Launch of Vikas Singh's ‘The Big Fix’ T20 and the young Indian cricketer - A golden honey trap? Participants to be confirmed shortly	Book Treasure Hunt by Make A Difference Timing and details to be confirmed shortly
6:00 – 7:00	Ramachandra Guha Is History literature or social science?
7:00 – 9:00	World in Verse: A celebration of life through Performance Poetry Bas Botcher, Vibha Rani, Mamta Sagar and Meena Kandasamy
	NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes.

Sunday | September 29, 2013

TIME	LAWN 1	LAWN 2	MAKKALA KOOTA Literature for Children
10:00 – 11.00	Thoughts that Breathe: Words that Burn: A morning of poetry Ashok Vajpeyi, K. Satchidanandan and Nabanita Dev Sen Moderator: Mamta Sagar	Launch of Abbas Khider's ‘Der falsche Inder’ International Ink: Getting published in Europe Ian Jack, Tilman Rammstedt, Aurélia Lassaque and Abbas Khider Moderator: Karthika V. K.
11.00 – 12.00	Session details and participating authors to be announced shortly	Playwrights at Work Dharmakirti Sumant, Vibha Rani, Swar Thounaojam and Christopher Kloebel Moderator: Evan Hastings	Sessions by Pratham Books Details to be confirmed shortly
12.00 – 1:00	Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Sunil Sethi	In the shadow of the gun: Literature from conflict zones Farooq Shaheen, Babar Ayaz, Jahnavi Barua and Meena Kandasamy Moderator: Amandeep Sandhu	Sessions by Pratham Books Details to be confirmed shortly
1:00 – 2:00	Kannada mooladha maruvyaakhyaana: The history & antiquity of Kannada Dr. Venkatachala Shastry, Dr. M. M. Kalburgi and Dr. Padekal Vishnu Bhat Moderator: Dr. Shrinivas Murthy	Rewriting the Rules of Romance and Reminiscence Satyajit Sarna, Nighat Gandhi, Nilanjan Choudhury and Shoba Narayan Moderator: Nandita Bose
2:00 – 3:00	Launch of Boria Majumdar's ‘Sporting Times’ Is Corruption a way of life in Indian Sport? Participating author names will be confirmed shortly	Voices of India: Young Literateurs of Bhasha Arindam Borkataki, Dharmakirti Sumant, Vempalli Gangadhara and Farooq Shaheen Moderator: Jayant Kodkani A Central Sahitya Akademi Presentation	Sessions by Amar Chitra Katha Details to be confirmed shortly
3:00 – 4:00	Naadhadha Nadiyondhu naDedhaanga: Kavi Samaya Celebrating Kannada poetry Nisar Ahmed, Venkatesh Murthy and Siddalingaiah Moderator: Asha Devi	Launch of Ravi Subramanian's ‘Bankerupt’ Edge of Darkness: On Thrillers and Chillers Ravi Subramanian and Piyush Jha in conversation with Eshwar Sundaresan	Sessions by Amar Chitra Katha Details to be confirmed shortly
4:00 – 5:00	India from the Outside Abbas Khider and Ian Jack in conversation with Sunil Sethi	69 Shades of Grey: Scripting Erotica Sheba Karim, Ashok Ferry and Minal Hajratwala Moderator: Harish Bijoor	Stories with The Storywallahs Details to be confirmed shortly
5:00 – 6:00	Mera kuchh saman, tumhare paas pada hai Gulzar in conversation with Bhawana Somaaya		Stories with The Storywallahs Details to be confirmed shortly
6:00 – 6:45	All this Longing: Songs and Poetry Shabnam Virmani & Vipul Rikhi
	NOTE: Session participants and timing could be subject to last minute changes.