Schedule – 2019
Literary Schedule
Day 1
25 Jan 2019
Day 2
26 Jan 2019
Day 3
27 Jan 2019
Plenary: Gujarati Literature Before, With and Beyond Gandhi
Plenary: Gujarati Literature Before, With and Beyond Gandhi Sitanshu Yashaschandra Chair: T Vijay Kumar
Panel: #Me Too: The Way Forward
Chinmayi Sripaada, Sandhya Menon & Shutapa Paul Moderator: Vasudha Nagaraj
Panel: Contemporary Trends in Chinese Literature
Ge Shuiping, Guan Renshan, Rong Rong, Shi Yifeng Chair: A Lai Co-ordinators & Interpreters: Zheng Lei, Hu Wei
Panel: Living Religion
Kavitha Buggana, K Madavane Moderator: Uma Damodar Sridhar
Plenary: Climate Change, Global Warming, and Water Management
Rajendra Singh Chair: Srinivas Murthy
Panel: En-Countering Stereotypes
Andaleeb Wajid, Neyaz Farooquee Moderator: Aparna Rayaprol
Panel: Happily Ever After
Aarti V Raman, Usha Narayanan Moderator: Adite Banerjie
Panel: Million Mutinies
Nikhila Henry, Rashmi Saksena Moderator: Usha Raman
Panel: Bollywood and Beyond
Elahe Hiptoola, Ketan Mehta & Suresh Jindal Moderator: Uma Magal
Panel: The Aadhaar Story
Charles Assisi and NS Ramnath Moderator: Adhiraj Parthasarathy
Plenary: Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility
Sudhir Chandra Chair: Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Talk: Indica: A Deep History of the Indian Subcontinent
Pranay Lal Moderator: Anant Maringanti
Panel: The Chief and the Chief Minister
Kingshuk Nag, Shutapa Paul Moderator: Uma Sudhir
Panel: Contemporary Currents in Gujarati Literature
Mahendrasinh Parmar, Paresh Naik & Udayan Thakkar Moderator: Himanshi Shelat
Readings: Flavours of Chinese Literature
A Lai, Ge Shuiping, Rong Rong, Shi Yifeng, Bei Ta Chair: Guan Renshan Co-ordinators: Zheng Lei & Hu Wei
Panel: Art and Ideology
Malvika Maheshwari, Salil Tripathi Moderator: Chandana Chakrabarti
Panel: No Child’s Play: Writing for Children and Young Adults
Andaleeb Wajid, Reshma Barshikar Moderator: Parimala Kulkarni
Panel: The Mahatma and the Movies
Govind Nihalani, Suresh Jindal Moderator: Balaji Vittal
Panel: Literature Down Under
Anna Solding, Jane McCredie, Marieke Hardy Moderator: Paul Sharrad
Panel: Narratives of North-East India
Rita Chowdhury, Samrat Choudhury Moderator: Mary Therese Kurkalang
Panel: Translation as Transformation
Astri Ghosh, Dileep Jhaveri, Ila Arun Moderator: Nikhila H
Panel: Stories of Another India
Abdullah Khan, Nilanjan Choudhury Moderator: A Giridhar Rao
Panel: Literary Culture of Telangana
Ashok Tankasala, Baig Ehsas, Mercy Margaret Moderator: T Vijay Kumar
Panel: What Publishers Want (HLF-Juggernaut Writing Contest Prize)
Phillipa McGuinness, Sudha Menon, Akash Joshi
Panel: Environmentally Yours
Karthikeyan, Rohan Chakraborty, Sanjeev Shiva Moderator: Anjali Pande
Kaavya Dhaara Schedule
Day 1
25 Jan 2019
Day 2
26 Jan 2019
Day 3
27 Jan 2019
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Kaavya Dhaara Pavilion
Kaavya Dhaara: Shuruaat
Asiya Zahoor, Hoshang Merchant, Jameela Nishat, Mamidi Harikrishna, Rizio Yohannan, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Sridala Swami Poetry rendering: Iqbal Patni and kathak exponent Mangala Bhatt
Kaavya Dhaara: Josh-e-Hyderabad
Harish Singla, Harsh Vardhan Shukla, Janani Rao, Javed Jalali, Shivani Kshirsagar, Shriya Gupta, Soumya, Srujana Satyavada Vaishnavi Sai, Zakad Cruze Poetry rendering: Jayashree, Irfan Ali and Patruni Sastry
Kaavya Dhaara: Madyaantar
Astri Ghosh, Bei Ta, Dileep Jhaveri, G Akila, Huzaifa Pandit, Kuppili Padma, Menka Shivdasani, N Gopi, Nitu Bhattacharya Paresh Tiwari, Raj Rao, Salil Tripathi, Sonnet Mondal, Udayan Thakkar Poetry rendering: Ila Arun
Kaavya Dhaara: Charag-e-Harf
Ananya Patel, Anany Sharma, Asad Siddiqui, Chandra Sekhar Varma, Devang Pratap Singh, Nikhil Sharma, Rj Harshi, Shashvat Shukla Shivargh Bhattacharya, Tarun Jha Poetry rendering: Chandra Sekhar Varma, Asad Siddiqui, Shivargh Bhattacharya
Kaavya Dhaara: Finale
Aadaab Kaifi Saab – Kaifi Azmi read by Shabana Azmi Hussain Hydari, Jhilam Chattaraj, Kavi Yakoob, Laltu Singh, Nabina Das, Rebecca Vedavathy, Saima Afreen, Sarabjeet Garcha Poetry rendering: music / dance / recitation Ka se Kavita – Akram Ul-Haq, Sravya Manasa Bhogireddy, Sudarshan Vig, Abhijeet Singh Rathore, Ghazala Yasmin Faruqui