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LIT SESSIONS PHOTOS – 2020
LIT SESSIONS
24th January 2020
Keynote: Cinema, Literature, and Society
Adoor Gopalakrishnan in conversation with Anish Kuruvilla
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Talk: Fake News—The True Story
Pratik Sinha Chair: Ranjan Chak
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Panel: Memoirs—Up Close and Personal
Feisal Alkazi, Kalpana Mohan
Moderator: Ratna Rao Shekar
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Panel: Indigenous Australian Perspectives
Anita Heiss, Bronwyn Fredericks
Moderator: Kieran Dolin
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Panel: We Are What We Eat
Pushpesh Pant, Sabita Radhakrishna
Moderator: Puneet Mehta
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Tales from Indian History
Manu Pillai in conversation with Chinmay Tumbe
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Panel: Breaking Barriers
Minnie Vaid, Reshma Qureshi
Moderator: Kinnera Murthy
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Panel: Trysts with India
Andrew Whitehead, Irène Frain
Moderator: Samuel Berthet
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Panel: Is There a ‘Men’s’ Fiction?
Kim Wilkins, Lisa Heidke
Moderator: Kathryn Hummel
What Translation Can Do
Anitha Thampi, Catherine Thankamma
in conversation with Mini Krishnan
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Panel: Ghalib: The Man and the Poet
Amina Kishore, Y Satyanarayana
Moderator: Adhiraj Parthasarathy
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Memories of the Body
Shanta Gokhale in conversation with Naresh Fernandes
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Panel: The Malayali in the Desert
Benyamin, Muzafer Ahamed
Moderator: Joshil Abraham
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Dial M for Empathy
Jerry Pinto in conversation with Usha Raman
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Panel: No Kidding: Writing for Children
Archana Garodia Gupta, Shruti Garodia, Khyrunnisa
Moderator: Parimala Kulkarni
Panel: The Kashmir Conundrum
Gowhar Geelani, Humra Quraishi
Moderator: MR Vikram
Panel: Poetry as Identity
Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Chandramohan Sathyanathan
Moderator: Mamta Sagar
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25th January 2020
Talk: Righting the Nation
Ashutosh
Chair: Ajay Gandhi
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Panel: Inspirational Stories
Piya Bahadur, Preeti Monga
Moderator: Suchitra Shenoy
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India’s Experiments in Saving Nature
Bahar Dutt in conversation with Kalpana Sharma
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Panel: Delhi-Hyderabad: Tales of Two Cities
Ravi Shankar Etteth, Serish Nanisetti
Moderator: Chandana Chakravarthy
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Panel: The Legacy of Partition
Harinder Singh Sikka, Vikram Kapur
Moderator: Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry
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Desire and Sexuality in India
Madhavi Menon in conversation with Karthik Teja Pulugurtha
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Taken at the Flood: A Memoir of A Political Life
Vasanth Kannabiran, Vrinda Grover
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Panel: Surmounting Challenges
Anand Vishwanadha, Shravya Kanithi
Moderator: Swati Agarwal
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Panel: How Green is My City?
Harini Nagendra, Nirupa Rao
Moderator: Sadhana Ramchander
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Panel: Hyderabad in History and Memory
Nazia Akhtar, Yunus Lasania
Moderator: Salma Ahmed Farooqui
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A Life in Stories – Long and Short
Paul Zacharia in conversation with Joshil Abraham
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Panel: Reimagining Sita, Remembering Nabaneeta
Samhita Arni, Volga
Moderator: Uma Damodar Sridhar
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Panel: Tales from Tihar
Sunetra Choudhury, Sunil Gupta
Moderator: Uma Sudhir
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Panel: Ideas of India
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Purushottam Agrawal
Moderator: Nishikant Kolge
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Panel: Politics, Technology, and Governance
Arun Mohan Sukumar, Reetika Khera
Moderator: Srinivas Kodali
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Panel: Telangana Literature in Translation
Damodar Rao, Elanaaga in conversation with Mamidi Harikrishna
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Laughter as the Only Recourse
Upamanyu Chatterjee in conversation with T Vijay Kumar
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26th January 2020
Talk: The Many Lives of VK Krishna Menon
Jairam Ramesh
Chair: Rammanohar Reddy
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Panel: New Age Fiction
Filipa Martins, Lynnette Lounsbury
Moderator: A Giridhar Rao
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Panel: The Magic of History
John Zubrzycki, Timeri Murari
Moderator: Sanjay Jasrani
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Panel: Tawiafs and Sex Workers
Ashok Alexander, Saba Dewan
Moderator: Anjali Lal Gupta
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Talk: The Cases that India Forgot
Chintan Chandrachud
Chair: Adhiraj Parthasarathy
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Panel: India-US: Nations at the Crossroads
Kapil Komireddi, Varghese K George
Moderator: Sunita Reddy
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Panel: Games Nations Play
Gideon Haigh, Stephen Alomes
Moderator: Harimohan Paruvu
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Panel: The Making and Unmaking of India
Chinmay Tumbe, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Moderator: Aparna Rayaprol
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Panel: Understanding Violence
Kalpana Sharma, Raheel Dhattiwala
Moderator: Kalpana Kannabiran
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Panel: Immigrant Voices
Rashida Murphy, Roanna Gonsalves
Moderator: Kalpana Mohan
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Panel: Media-ting Reality
Caroline Overington, Naresh Fernandes
Moderator: Rammanohar Reddy
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Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Caste in India
Nishikant Kolge in Conversation with Chinmay Tumbe
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Talk: Hyderabad and the People’s Constitution
Rohit De
Chair: Ajay Gandhi
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Panel: Contemporizing the Classics
Preti Taneja, Samhita Arni
Moderator: Astri Ghosh
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Valedictory: Scholarship in the Time of Politics
Jairam Ramesh
Chair: Jayesh Ranjan