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12, 13, 14 JANUARY, 2019
PROGRAMME
*Programme subject to change12 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Saturday
SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
TIME SESSION
9.35 am – 9.55 am Inauguration
2019 Elections and the Future of Indian Democracy
10.00 am - 10.50 am
Arun Shourie, N Ram, Priya Sahgal and R Jagannathan in conversation with Sanjay Pinto
Gulzar on Gulzar
10.55 am - 11.45 am
Meghna Gulzar in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan
11.45 am - 12.00 noon TEA
The Handler of Unfortunate Events
12.00 noon - 12.50 pm
Lemony Snicket in conversation with Rosella Stephen
Shaping the New World Order
12.55 pm - 1.45 pm Husain Haqqani, James Crabtree, John Keay and Suki Kim in conversation with
Sashi Kumar
1.45 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
Governance A Responsibility
2.30 pm - 3.20 pm C Mahendran, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, S Peter Alphonse and Thol Thirumavalavan
in conversation with S Karthigaichelvan (Tamil)
Making India Work
3.25 pm - 4.15 pm
Arun Shourie in conversation with N Ravi
4.15 pm - 4.30 pm TEA
The Myth and Reality of Emperor Aurangzeb - An Illustrated lecture
4.30 pm - 5.20 pm
Audrey Truschke
*Programme subject to change12
Second Act
SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Saturday
5.25 pm - 6.15 pm
Manisha Koirala in conversation with Dr Sheela Nambiar
Her Music Her Life: A centenary tribute to DK Pattammal
6.20 pm - 7.10 pm Conceptualised, scripted and narrated by Gowri Ramnarayan
Featuring Akhila Ramnarayan, Nisha Rajagopal and Yohan Chacko
THE HINDU PAVILION
TIME SESSION
Beyond Indian English: A time for bhashas
10.30 am - 11.30 am
J Devika, Kannan Sundaram and Vivek Shanbhag in conversation with Urvashi Butalia
The Real and the Mystique: Unravelling the hidden layers
11.35 am - 12.25 pm
Vaasanthi and Yasser Usman in conversation
Being the Other
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm
Farahnaz Ispahani, Nandini Krishnan and Nazia Erum in conversation with Kalpana Sharma
1.30 pm - 3.00 pm LUNCH
Illustrating Children's Books
3.00 pm - 3.50 pm
Anushka Ravishankar, Lisa Brown and Shobha Viswanath in conversation with Sandhya Rao
Mothering A Muslim
3.55 pm - 4.40 pm
Nazia Erum in conversation with Arunava Sinha
The Journey of a Southern Feminist
4.45 pm - 5.35 pm
Devaki Jain in conversation with Kalpana Sharma
*Programme subject to change12 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Saturday
THE HINDU SHOWPLACE
TIME SESSION
Fetters on Creative Expression: Art and the politics of dissent
11.00 am - 12.00 noon
Chandan Gowda, Githa Hariharan and TM Krishna in conversation with Kamini Mahadevan
Homage to N Muthuswamy: Memories and Rememberances
12.15 pm - 1.00 pm Dhalavai Sundaram, Gnana Rajasekaran and Vinodhini Vaidyanathan in
conversation with Pralayan (Tamil)
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
No Cause For Shame: Talking frankly about mental illlness
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Dr Samir Parikh in conversation with Dr Vijay Nagaswami
The Literature of Myth: Using myths and legends in contemporary storytelling
3.40 pm - 4.40 pm Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni, Ravi Shankar Etteth and Sharanya Manivannan in
conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris
4.40 pm - 4.50 pm BREAK
Inspirations: Art and music
4.50 pm - 5.40 pm
Aruna Sairam and VV Ramani in conversation with Sushila Ravindranath
THE SLATE
Words of Now, Words of Memory: Poetry of disappearing landscapes
10.30 am - 11.15 am
Jacinta Kerketta and Nighat Sahiba in conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan
*Programme subject to change12 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
The Short Story of a Lifetime
January, Saturday
11.20 am - 12.10 pm
Aamer Hussein in conversation with Ziya us Salam
Embrace our Rivers: Public Art and Ecology in India
12.15 pm - 1.15 pm Helmut Schippert, Mukund Padmanabhan, Parvathi Nayar and
Ravi Agarwal in conversation with TM Krishna
1.15 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
Suki Speaks: A cartoon character shares her journey An illustrated talk
2.30 pm - 3.20 pm
Manjula Padmanabhan
Exiled at Home: Women and lesbians in no 'man's' land
3.30 pm - 4.20 pm
Lara Fergus and Susan Hawthorne in conversation with Nandini Krishnan
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST
@ NEVERLAND
Time Detectives: Finds from the Past
10.30 am - 11.30 am Travel through the magical realms of Indian archaeology with Devika Cariapa, author of
India Through Archaeology: Excavating History
What’s in that Tree, Ammuchi? An interactive session with
11.40 am - 12.30 pm
Sharanya Manivannan, author of The Ammuchi Puchi
Treasure-Hunt at the Train Station
12.40 pm - 1.30 pm
Have you ever found treasure at a railway station? Ask Joeanna Rebello
*Programme subject to change12 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Saturday
THE HINDU LIT FOR LIFE WORKSHOPS
@ STUDIO 1
TIME SESSION
Fit For Life: On fitness and well being
10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Dr Sheela Nambiar
The Sound of Silence: On the art of mime
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Mime Gopi
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST WORKSHOPS
TIME SESSION
@ Neverland
Exploring Story Creation
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Lakshmi Karunakaran
@ Narnia
Thinking Out of the Box (Part 1)
10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Anita Thomas
Telling Tales
4.15 pm - 5.15 pm
Anushka Ravishankar
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
TIME SESSION
Politics of Identity: New ideas of caste and religious assertion
10.00 am - 10.50 am Aditya Mukherjee, Farahnaz Ispahani, Shiv Visvanathan and Ziya us Salam
in conversation with G Sampath
What Ails Indian Science And What Can Be Done About It?
10.55 am - 11.45 am
Nobel Prize Winner Venki Ramakrishnan in conversation with Dr K VijayRaghavan
11.45 am - 12.00 noon TEA
Modern South India
12.00 noon - 12.50 pm
Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Nirmala Lakshman
The Epic Storyteller
12.55 pm - 1.40 pm
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan
1.40 pm - 2.25 pm LUNCH
Bharati and Other Tamil Characters
2.25 pm - 3.10 pm
AR Venkatachalapathy in conversation with Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The Battleground of Indian History
3.15 pm - 4.15 pm Audrey Truschke, Ira Mukhoty, John Keay and Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with
Aditya Mukherjee
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
4.15 pm - 4.25 pm TEA
Award Ceremony The Hindu Prize 2018: Fiction and Non-Fiction and The Hindu
4.25 pm - 5.15 pm
Young World Goodbooks Awards
Tyranny of Diets
5.20 pm - 6.10 pm
Rujuta Diwekar in conversation with Shonali Muthalaly
Retracing maps in search of language An illustrated lecture
6.10 pm - 7.00 pm
Nilima Sheikh
THE HINDU PAVILION
TIME SESSION
The Art of Crafting Stories: Readings from the shortlist for The Hindu Prize 2018 Fiction
10.30 am - 11.15 am Amitabha Bagchi, Anjum Hasan, Anuradha Roy, Arunava Sinha, N Kalyan Raman,
Neelum Saran Gour, and Perumal Murugan in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan
Matter of fact: Discussions with the authors shortlisted for
The Hindu Prize 2018 Non Fiction
11.20 am - 12.05 am
Aanchal Malhotra, Jairam Ramesh, Manoranjan Byapari, Sipra Mukherjee, Srinath
Raghavan and Sudeep Chakravarti in conversation with Sridhar Krishnaswami
The Tellers of Tales
12.10 pm - 1.00 pm Aamer Hussein, Amitabha Bagchi, Sumana Roy and Abdullah Khan in
conversation with Mini Kapoor
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
1.00 pm - 2.00 pm LUNCH
The World Threw Us Apart
2.00 pm - 2.50 pm
Award-winning author Anuradha Roy in conversation with Mini Kapoor
City Lights
2.55 pm - 3.45 pm
Anjum Hasan, Abdullah Khan and Neelum Saran Gour in conversation with V Sriram
When History Fails: Embedded Stories
3.50 pm - 4.35 pm
R Cheran in conversation with Kavitha Muralidharan
4.35 pm - 4.50 pm TEA
Talking Trash: How to manage waste
4.50 pm - 5.40 pm
Bharati Chaturvedi, Jai Prakash Chowdhary and Manwara Begum
Keeping the Classics Relevant for the 21st Century
5.45 pm - 6.35 pm
Arunava Sinha, Radha Chakravarty and Mani Rao in conversation with AJ Thomas
THE HINDU SHOWPLACE
TIME SESSION
Dravidian Ideology in Praxis: Homage to Kalaignar Karunanidhi
10.00 am - 10.45 am
Dr N Ezhilan and N Ram in conversation with Kanimozhi Karunanidhi
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
The Silent Epidemic: The Explosive Growth of Mental Health Problems in India
10.55 am - 11.45 am Dr Samir Parikh and Gayathri Prabhu in conversation with
Dr Ennapadam S Krishnamoorthy
11.45 am - 12.00 noon TEA
Tasting Trail: On the cuisines of South and West Tamil Nadu
12.00 noon - 12.45 pm
Perumal Murugan and Nanjil Nadan in conversation with Harikrishnan Sankaran (Tamil)
The Great Mughals
12.55 pm - 1.45 pm
Audrey Truschke and Ira Mukhoty in conversation with Manu Pillai
1.45 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
Crazy Rich Indians
2.30 pm - 3.20 pm
James Crabtree in conversation with Suresh Seshadri
Food Safari: The travelling chefs
3.30 pm - 4.20 pm Chef Alfred Prasad, Chef Thomas Zacharias, and Chef Vikramjit Roy in
conversation with Shonali Muthalaly
4.20 pm - 4.40 pm TEA
Why We Should All Be Feminists
4.40 pm - 5.30 pm Sumana Roy, Sharanya Manivannan, Manjula Padmanabhan and Madhavi Menon in
conversation with Vaishna Roy
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
Media Under Threat
5.45 pm - 6.45 pm James Crabtree, Mukund Padmanabhan, Priya Sahgal, Suki Kim and
Ravi Shankar Etteth in conversation with Narayan Lakshman
THE SLATE
Living Mantra
11.00 am - 11.50 am
Mani Rao in conversation with Chitra Mahesh
Writing A Memoir
12.00 noon - 1.00 pm
Chike Frankie Edozien in conversation with Ramya Kannan
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
Politics & Resistance: The forms of documentary films
2.30 pm - 3.15 pm
Sanjay Kak and Rahul Roy in conversation with RV Ramani
They Sit Deep Inside Me: You wrote yourself a poem of it
3.25 pm - 4.10 pm
Ulrike Almut Sandig in conversation with Nandini Krishnan
Words Take Wings: Plays that took shape from stage texts
4.15 pm - 5.00 pm
Anamika Haksar, Neelam Mansingh and Sushama Deshpande in conversation
Appreciating the Sculptural Traditions of South India - An illustrated lecture
5.05 pm - 6.05 pm
Dr Chithra Madhavan
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST
@ Neverland
Spectabulous Stories
10.00 am - 11.00 am ...imagine the most terricked teacher possible, with the book's author
Shabnam Minwalla.
I Need to Pee, You Need to Pee, We All Need to Pee!
11.10 am - 12.00 noon Talk about all the icky, sticky, yucky adventures that you may have been on in search of
clean and safe toilets with author Neha Singh
Critters That Crawl
12.05 pm - 1.00 pm Peek into the world of some marvellous critters and incredible discoveries with Shobha
Viswanath, author of Insect Boy
THE HINDU LIT FOR LIFE WORKSHOPS
@ Studio 1
TIME SESSION
Thayirsaadam, Tales and Tweets: On the relevance of Avvaiyar today
10.00 am - 12.00 noon
Geeta Gopalakrishnan
The Wandering Lens: Telling Stories from Offbeat Places
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Gaurav Punj and Varun Gupta
*Programme subject to change13 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Sunday
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST WORKSHOPS
@ Narnia
Scrapbooks and Journals (Part 2)
9.30 am - 10.30 am
Anita Thomas
Holding On While Letting Go (Part 3)
11.00 am - 12.30 am
Anita Thomas
Tell Your Story
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Anushka Ravishankar
@ Neverland
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm The Rap Club with Blaaze: Creative Writing Meets Rap
*Programme subject to change14 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Monday
SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
TIME SESSION
Why Can't India and Pakistan Be Friends
10.00 am - 10.50 am
Husain Haqqani in conversation with Suhasini Haider
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner
10.55 am - 11.45 am
John Keay in conversation with Shiv Visvanathan
11.45 am - 12.00 noon TEA
Decoding Our Genes - An illustrated lecture
12.00 noon - 12.50 pm
Nobel Prize Winner Venki Ramakrishnan
Singing Kabir Speaking Kabir: The making of a play
12.55 pm - 1.40 pm
Shekhar Sen in conversation with Aruna Sairam
1.40 pm - 2.25 pm LUNCH
Crisis of Credibility: Fighting Fake News
2.25 pm - 3.15 pm Pratik Sinha, R Jagannathan, Sanjay Pinto, Sriram Lakshman and Suhasini Haider
in conversation with Harsh Sethi
Masala Shakespeare: The worlds of Shakespeare and Indian cinema - An Illustrated lecture
3.20 pm - 4.10 pm
Jonathan Gil Harris
4.10 pm - 4.20 pm TEA
*Programme subject to change14 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
It Was A Dark and Funny Night
January, Monday
4.20 pm - 5.10 pm
Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown in conversation with Vaishna Roy
The Sublime Cricketer
5.15 pm - 6.05 pm
VVS Laxman in conversation with N Ram
Ten Reasons Why Gandhi Still Matters
6.10 pm - 7.10 pm
Ramachandra Guha
THE HINDU PAVILION
TIME SESSION
Growing Up with Babasaheb Ambedkar: A lived experience
10.15 am - 11.00 am
Sushama Deshpande and Urmila Pawar in conversation with Prema Revathi
Tales of our Times: Start them Young
11.05 am - 12.00 noon Himanjali Sankar, Joeanna Rebello, Malavika Nataraj, Neha Singh and Radhika Menon
in conversation with Sandhya Rao
Dissent on Aadhaar: Big data meets Big Brother
12.05 pm - 1.00 pm
Reetika Khera and Suhrith Parthasarathy in conversation with G Sampath
1.00 pm - 2.30 pm LUNCH
Sexual Personae: Overcoming prejudice and misconceptions about sexuality
2.30 pm - 3.20 pm
Nandini Krishnan and Madhavi Menon in conversation with Susan Hawthorne
Marriage and the Metropolis
3.25 pm - 4.15 pm
Elizabeth Flock in conversation with Peter Griffin
*Programme subject to change14 SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Monday
A Pack of Lies that is Fiction: Culling out the truth
4.20 pm - 5.05 pm
Aadhavan Dheetchanya in conversation with Pralayan (Tamil)
Literature as diasporic history: Pa Singaram's Beyond the Seas
5.10 pm - 6.10 pm
Kombai S Anwar and R Cheran in conversation with AR Venkatachalapathy
THE HINDU SHOWPLACE
TIME SESSION
Uncharted Terrain: Reclaiming Female Prerogatives
10.00 am - 11.00 am
Parvathy in conversation with Sunandha Raghunathan
The Outlaw State: Uncovering the secrets of the North Korean dictatorship
11.05 am - 11.55 pm
Suki Kim in conversation with Narayan Lakshman
11.55 pm - 12.05 pm TEA
The Heartfulness Way: Heart-Based Meditations for Spiritual Transformations
12.05 pm - 12.55 pm
Joshua Pollock in conversation with Sumana Roy
12.55 pm - 1.40 pm LUNCH
Bombay Dreams
1.40 pm - 2.30 pm
Shweta Bachchan Nanda in conversation with Parvathi Nayar
Strengthening Voices: A collective awakening
2.35 pm - 3.35 pm Chinmayi, Parvathy, Gayatri Rangachari Shah, and Suhrith Parthasarathy in
conversation with Kalpana Sharma
*Programme subject to change14
The Rebel Sultans
SIR MUTHA CONCERT HALL
January, Monday
3.40 pm - 4.30 pm
Manu Pillai in conversation with Aanchal Malhotra
4.30 pm - 4.40 pm TEA
A Secret History of Compassion
4.40 pm - 5.30 pm
Paul Zacharia in conversation with Sashi Kumar
Transference and Dialogue: Traditional and modern Tamil theatre in Sri Lanka
5.35 pm - 6.20 pm
Sinniah Maunaguru in conversation with K Parthibaraja (Tamil)
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST
@ NEVERLAND
Naughty Krishna, Brave Hanuman and Tirupati Tour – with Amma!
10.00 am - 11.15 am Listen to the stories about the adventures of Hanuman and Krishna. And take a tour of
Tirupati and the Dargah of Salim Chishti with author Bhakti Mathur
The Lies We Tell Author Himanjali Sankar talks about why we need to step out of our
12.00 noon - 1.00 pm
own skins and into those of others and why it is important to talk about mental health
THE HINDU LFL CHILDREN'S FEST WORKSHOPS
@ NEVERLAND
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm The Rap Club with Blaaze: Creative Writing Meets Rap
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