Delhi Literature Festival – 2015

 

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DELHI LITERATURE FESTIVAL

17^th, 18^th & 19^th, April 2015   Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 

Program (Proposed)

Friday, 17th April

06:00 pm – 07:00 pm FESTIVAL OPENING:  

Smt. Smriti Irani, Hon’ble Union Minister for HRD, Govt. of India

Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Hon’ble Minister of State of Culture and Tourism

(Independent Charge) & Civil Aviation Member, Govt. of India

Shri Baldeo Bhai Sharma, Hon’ble Chairman National Book Trust

Shri Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Shri Arvind Kejriwal Hon’ble Chief Minister Delhi,

Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Poet in Hindi, essayist, literary-cultural critic

Smt. Rama Pandey, An Eminent Writer

Shri Ramesh Mittal, Founder Lifi Publications, to announce DK Literary Awards from 2016 onwards.

Raghvender Singh Rathore, Hon’ble Minister of Information & Broadcasting

Jitendra Singh Tomar, Hon’ble Minister of Art, Culture, Language and Tourism

07:15 pm – 8:00 pm A Tribute:  Khushwant Singh, Padma Vibhushan

Humra Quraish 

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DELHI LITERATURE FESTIVAL

17^th, 18^th & 19^th, April 2015   Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

Saturday, 18th April

11:00 pm – 11:45 pm Book Reading / Workshop ( The Fools Journey)

The Sacred India Tarot by Kiren Rai

12:00 pm – 01:15 pm The First Book Prize

The first book is perhaps the most significant event in an author’s life. Very few literary prizes focus on the first book an author publishes. Here, we hear some of the foundations which award prizes to authors on their first book itself and the authors who have received those prizes.

1. Souradeep Roy- Moderator
2. Nilanjana Roy – Winner of the 2013 Shakti Bhatt First book Prize for her debut novel The Wildings ( Aleph ), a starling narrative in which the characters are street cats in Delhi’s Nizamuddin East.
3. Subhro Bandopadhyay – Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar
4. Neel Chaudhri- Winner of Hindu Metro Plus Playwright Award.

1: 30 pm – 2:00 pm Reading by Prof. Harish Narang

02:30 pm – 03:45 pm “My Love Story”: New Age Authors

1. Shubha Menon
2. Leher Sethi- Moderator
3. Swati Sharma
4. Ishita Peerboy

04:00 pm – 05:00 pm “Story Telling: an Art’’

1. Prof. Harish Narang JNU – Moderator
2. Debashis Panigrahi IG, Police (Orissa)
3. Leena Sarma ( General Manager, Railways )
4. Ms. Pratima Srivastva, IFS
5. Mr. Ashok Mitra, Infosis
6. Ms. Esha Pandey, IPS

05:30 pm – 06:45 pm “Novel Writing: Sequences, Form and Narrative in India’’

3. Dr. Vivek Sachdeva – Moderator
4. Dr. Ajay Yadav
5. Leena Sarma
6. Ishaan Lalit
7. Ritu Lalit
8. Rashmi Singh
9. Debashis Panigrahi

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DELHI LITERATURE FESTIVAL

17^th, 18^th & 19^th, April 2015   Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

Sunday, 19th April

11:15 am – 12:00 pm A Tribute: R.K Laxman

1. Vishwa jyoti Ghosh
2. Christel R. Devadawson- Moderator
3. K V Gautam

12:15 pm – 01:30 pm  “The Accidental Prime Minister” by Sanjaya Baru- a book discussion

• Sanjaya Baru
• Raj Kishore Tiwari – Editor, Dainik Jagran

1:45 pm – 2:15 pm ” Twin Culture –Women in Society & Women at Home.“  by Ratna Vira

• Ratna Vira
• Bhuvan Lal – Moderator

02:30 pm – 03:45 pm Lit-entrepreneur: Publishing coming of Age

• Arpita Das- Publisher Yodakin, Moderator
• Asad Zaidi- Founder, Three essays collective
• Aniket Kapoor, Founder Authors Ink
• Dipankar Mukherjee, Founder Readomania

04:00 pm – 05:15 pm   Indian English Poetry – the Next Generation

This session features the upcoming generation of Indian poets writing in English. Most of these poets have either published their first collection or have won a poetry competition/ competitions with a first book still in the making.

Arun Sagar, Akhil Katyal, Rohan Chettri, Moderator – Vivek Narayanan

05:30 pm – 06:45 pm Will Social Media Wipe out Big Media

1. Rana Safvi
2. Meenakshi Madhavan- Moderator
3. Faraaz Kazi
4. Satyarth Nayak
5. Shazia Ilmi

06:45 pm – 7:00 pm Book Launch by Sudeep Sen

Sudeep Sen is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and ‘one of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene’.

07:00 pm – 08:00 pm “Indian Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time” by Shashi Tharoor

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DELHI LITERATURE FESTIVAL

18^th& 19^th  April 2015,  Amphitheatre Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi

AMPHITHEATRE SCHEDULE

Saturday 18th April

6:00pm – 7:30pm  “Creative Writing Workshop & Short Story Writing Competition” organised by Dipankar Mukherjee ( Readomania )

• Sutapa Sen
• Kulpreet Yadav
• Satyarth Yayak

Sunday 19th April

6:30pm – 7:30pm  “Foreign Authors Portraying India/Delhi”

• Tarquin Hall
• Patrick Bryson