BlrLitFest and Children Lit Fest Schedule - 2019
BlrLitFest and Children Lit Fest Schedule - 2019
BlrLitFest and Children Lit Fest Schedule - 2019
Festival Schedule
Entry Free!
9 – 10 November
10am Onwards
Hotel LaLiT Ashok
Day 1 Saturday | 9 November
Tughlaq Yayati The Red Couch
10am दोपहरी – Dopehri 10am Mind Without Fear 10am Happiness Express
Pankaj Kapur Rajat Gupta with Narayan Ramachandran Dinesh Ghodke and Khurshed Batliwala
115pm Savarkar: Misunderstood Messiah? 1245pm The Endgame 1pm ಪತ್ತೇದಾರಿ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – Why Crime Attracts
Vikram Sampath with R Jagannathan Kunal Basu with Teesta Guha Sarkar Readers D V Guruprasad
130pm The Story of an Acid-Attack Survivor 130pm A Death in The Himalayas
Reshma Qureshi, Tania Singh with Preeti Gill Udayan Mukherjee with Aruna Nambiar
145pm Namdu K Kannad Gothilla Ki Ki
A Comic Take on the Language of Bangalore
2pm The Gangster’s Gita Agni Sreedhar, 2pm India Automated
Prathibha Nandakumar with Karthik Venkatesh Pranjal Sharma with Shekhar Sanyal
230pm Surviving a Terror Attack 230pm Upcountry Tales: Once Upon A Time In 230pm Book Bunk – Restoring Public Libraries
Nidhi Chaphekar The Heart Of India Wanjiru Koinange with Vani Mahesh
Mark Tully with Tony Joseph
3pm No Nation for Women – Narratives of 3pm കേവലം ഒരു പിടി മണ്ണ് അല്ല – Putting Kerala on 3pm The Making of Islamic Womanhood
Violence the Literary Map Hem Borker with Abdullah Khan
Ashok Alexander, Manjari Chaturvedi, Priyanka Johny Miranda, Unni R with CK Meena
Dubey with Tania Singh
330pm Rudiments of Music Rzhude David and 330pm Writing Presence – Reading and
345pm बार बार देखो – Unraveling a Hit Lucky Ali accompanied by Flute Butto Conversation
Bhawana Somaaya, Manish Mundra, Supriya Lata Mani with Deepa Dhanraj
Pathak with Sultan Ahmed
4pm Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book 4pm This is How it Took Place
Prize Manish Sabharwal, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Shinie Antony, Shubha Mudgal, Udayan Mitra with
Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan Sohini Basak
415pm We are Family – Ink and Kin 415pm Indian Elections
Aruna Nambiar, Julia Prendergast, Udayan Ornit Shani with Srinath Raghavan 430pm The Book of Love
Mukherjee with Tanuj Solanki Ekarat with Apurva Chamaria
445pm Early Indians
5pm Bestsellers – Wake Up, Life is Calling Tony Joseph with Chandrahas Choudhury 5pm Verse Interruption | Lakshmi Unbound
Preeti Shenoy with Vani Mahesh Sanjukta Dasgupta
515pm Bestsellers – Thrillers to Bank On 515pm Verse Interruption | Sing to Me Mani Rao
Ravi Subramanian with Bilal Siddiqi
530pm The Inheritance of Loss – Jallianwala 530pm Majoritarianism and the Indian
and After 545pm The Courtesan Project Democracy
Amandeep Sandhu, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Manjari Chaturvedi Mukul Kesavan and Srinath Raghavan
Navdeep Suri with Preeti Gill
6pm The 3 Worlds of Indian Citizenship Niraja
Gopal Jayal | Introduced by Ramachandra Guha
615pm Big Little Stories 615pm Small Town, Big Dreams
Deepak Unnikrishnan, Shubha Mudgal, Julia Abdullah Khan, Gillian Wright, Parimal 630pm People Are The New Media
Prendergast with Premanka Goswami Bhattacharya, Tanuj Solanki with Andaleeb Wajid Karthik Srinivasan with Ranjani Krishnakumar
215pm The Runaway Peacock Niyatee Sharma 215pm Illustrate A Real Picture Book Tanvi Bhat 215pm The Never Ending Story – Writing
245pm Forest Murmurs 245pm Who’s Yo’ Granny? Lavanya Karthik Workshop Andaleeb Wajid
Jurga Vilė and Lina Itagaki 315pm Fun with Folk Tales 315pm The Lies We Tell – Tackling Anxiety
330pm Tickle Monster Ramya Srinidhi Anitha Murthy Issues Himanjali Sankar
4pm Tadaahahaha Vinitha 345pm The Butterfingers Effect Khyrunnisa A 345pm Tinkle – Make Your Own SuperHero
415pm Mudras, Meaning and Magic Savio Mascarenhas
430pm Once Upon a Clown Time Kumudha BharathRam 430pm Ramayana Vs. Mahabharata
Monica Santos 445pm Sangeet Aur Katha – Duniya Devdutt Pattanaik
5pm The Dragon Rock Saskia Rao de Haas 5pm So Who Wants to be a Space Scientist?
Aarti Kathpalia Minnie Vaid
530pm Merry, the Elephant goes to School 530pm The World of Turtles 530pm Feeling ‘Trapped’? Let’s Rap to Break
Bhagirathy Sneha Dharwadkar Free! Kavitha Mandana
1215pm Poems - Voems 12 noon Of Tails & Tales 12 noon Writing for Media in the Digital Age
Harshikaa Udasi Museum of Art and Photography Basav Biradar, Bengaluru Review
1pm Be Safe With Rainbow 1245pm Our Own Mahatma 1pm How I Make My Passion Work
Sowmya Rajan Srinivasan and Muktha Foundation Arthy Muthanna Singh Archit Taneja and Balaji Venkataramanan
130pm Forest Murmurs 115pm Nosey Parkers Ruchika Chanana
145pm Mayil’s World
Jurga Vilė and Lina Itagaki 2pm What Happened to The Reptiles Sowmya Rajendran
Janaki Sabesh
215pm Ode to Grandpas Around The World 230pm The Grass is Red on The Other Side
Arthy Muthanna Singh Gautam Benegal
245pm Master-Stroke Makers Flow India 245pm Kittu is lost!! Harshikaa Udasi
330pm Cupcake Decoration Workshop 315pm Mythical Creatures – Visual Stories From 315pm Advanced Paper Planes Airytails
Megna Jain Out of This World Ina Kaur
4pm Adventures of Biplob The Bumblebee 4pm A Twist In The Tale Bookosmia 4pm Talking Objects – The Museum as a
Abhishek Talwar Storyteller Museum of Art and Photography
430pm Make and Fly Airytails 445pm The Great Indian Quiz Pika Nani 445pm Wonders & Visions – Why Science
Fiction? Vinayak Varma and Gautham Shenoy
515pm A Touch of Folk Art Raju Dyapur 515pm A Nature Journal – To Sketch & Wonder
Sangeeta Kadur 530pm Old Curiosity Shop Flow India
Between.Today
An engaging interactive piece bringing together
eloquently the creativity embedded in the
technology and the art worlds presented by
Bengaluru Fantastic.
9 – 10 Nov | 10am onwards
Venue Festival and C | L | F Lawns
BlrBusking
The people who sit in public places and write
poems and make artwork for you.
9 – 10 Nov | 10am onwards
Venue Festival and C | L | F Lawns
itihaasa
itihaasa, a first-of-its-kind digital app that
recounts the history of Indian IT since the 1950s.
9 – 10 Nov | 10am onwards
Venue The Grand Ballroom
Akila Krishnakumar
Ananth Narayanan
Anjum Jung
Aprameya Radhakrishna
Arati Rajiv Mody
Aroon Raman
Ashish Gumashta
Bharati Jacob Kurien
CK Sharma
Deeksha Dinesh
Deepika Mogilishetty
Dilip James
Dinesh Himatsingka
Gitanjali Maini
Gopal Srinivasan
Hari Marar
Hema Hattangady
Hema Ravichandar
Irfan Razack
Jaithirth Rao
K Vaidyanath Pradeep Kar
KR Ramamoorthy Pradeep Singh
Kavita Gupta Sabharwal Prashanth Prakash
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Ranjan Pai
Kiron Shah Renuka Deepak Padaki
Kris Gopalakrishnan Rohini Nilekani
M Lakshminarayan Rostow Ravanan
MR Jaishankar SD Shibulal
Madan Padaki Samit Ghosh
Murlidhar Suryanarayan Sandeep Singhal
NS Parthasarathy Sangeeta Mahendran
Nandan Kamath Sangita Jindal
Narayan Ramachandran Sanjay Anandaram
Naresh Ponappa Sashi Rajamani
Neeraj Sagar Siddharth Raja
Phyllis Savage Sridhar Poddar
Srikanth Iyer
Srinivasa Rao
Sriram Srinivasan
Sudhir Rao
Sujata Kelkar Shetty
Sukumar Srinivas
Suneeth Katarki
Suraj Moraje
TV Mohandas Pai
TV Ramaswamy
Vasudeva Rao
Vijay Sood
Vikram Kirloskar
Vivek Kumar
Yasmeen Premji