Litfest Delhi 2016 Schedule

Saturday 26th Nov 2016
Sunday 27th Nov 2016

Stein	Silver Oak	Jacaranda	Gulmohar	Casuarina	Outdoor stage

SESSION 1.1 11:00-12:00
Times Lit Fest Delhi 2016 inauguration. Chief Guest: Hon’ble Lt. Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung. Keynote Address: India@70: The Big Picture. Moderator: Sagarika Ghose. set reminder

Session 2.1 12:15-13:15	SESSION 2.2 12:30 - 13:30	SESSION 2.3 12:45-13:45	SESSION 2.4 12:50-13:50	SESSION 2.5 12:00-13:00	SESSION 2.6 11:30 - 12:30
Ruskin Bond: Felicitation with Lifetime Achievement Award. Ruskin Bond in conversation with Paro Anand on his life and his work. set reminder	State of India Panel: Towards the second renaissance of Bengal. Speaker: Amit Mitra, Finance Minister of West Bengal. Moderator: Suman Chattopadhyay. set reminder	Launch of 'Private Delhi' cover: Ashwin Sanghi on the 'Private' series and thriller writing. Moderator: Meru Gokhale set reminder	The Sea Lies Ahead: On Intizar Husein, India and Pakistan. Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with Shazia Ilmi set reminder	Artificial Intelligence and the future of business. Kiran Karnik in conversation with Shivnath Thukral. Powered by Carnegie India. set reminder	Storytelling session for 7-12 year olds with Bulbul Sharma hosted by Full Circle Bookshop. set reminder

SESSION 3.1 13:30-14:30	SESSION 3.2 13:45-14:45	SESSION 3.3 14:00-15:00	SESSION 3.4 14:10-15:10	SESSION 3.5 13:10-14:10	SESSION 3.6 12:30-13:30
Keynote Address: India@70: Rebooting the Republic. Speaker: Nandan Nilekani. Moderator: Nalin Mehta set reminder	Write India: The Indian Short Story. Panelists: Ravi Subramanian, Ashwin Sanghi and Ravinder Singh. Moderator: Vinita Dawra Nangia. set reminder	Namita Gokhale speaks on her new novel, ‘Things to leave behind’. Moderator: Jaya Bhattacharji Rose set reminder	Being the Other: The Muslim in India. Speaker: Saeed Naqvi. Moderator: Shahid Siddiqui set reminder	From PV Narasimha Rao to Narendra Modi: 25 years of ‘swaminomics’. Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar in conversation with Surjit Bhalla. set reminder	Books Vooks: Storytelling session for 4-6 year olds with Ankit Agarwal and Ritu Agarwal. set reminder

SESSION 4.1 14:45-15:45	SESSION 4.2 15:00-16:00	SESSION 4.3 15:10-16:10	SESSION 4.4 15:20-16:20	SESSION 4.5 14:20-15:20	SESSION 4.6 13:30-14:30
This Unquiet Land: Barkha Dutt in conversation with Raghu Karnad. set reminder	A long darkness: The British empire in India. Speaker: Shashi Tharoor. Moderator: John Elliott. set reminder	The Future is Female: Women Reinventing India. Panelists: Sapna Bhavnani, Mallika Dua and Kanika Tekriwal. Moderator: Shaili Chopra. Session powered by SheThePeopleTV. set reminder	The business of reviving India. Panelists: Richa Kumar, Dinesh C. Sharma and Harish Damodaran. Chair: Nandan Nilekani. Powered by New India Foundation. set reminder	Seeing Red: Stories from the Maoist Heartland. Nandini Sundar in conversation with Hridayesh Joshi. Moderator: Nitin Sethi. set reminder	Books Vooks: Storytelling session for 7-9 year olds with Ankit Agarwal and Ritu Agarwal. set reminder

SESSION 5.1 16:30-1730	SESSION 5.2 16:20-17:20	SESSION 5.3 16:45-17:45	SESSION 5.4 16:30-17:30	SESSION 5.5 15:30-16:30	Session 5.6 15:00-16:00
Does India need a Ram temple? Bulding multi-cultural, multi-religious and inclusive societies. Speakers: Subramanian Swamy and Asaduddin Owaisi. Moderator: Rajdeep Sardesai. Powered by Australia India Institute. set reminder	Poetry performance by Young Poet Laureate of London, Selina Nwulu. Moderator: Indrajit Hazra. Session powered by the British Council. set reminder	Keynote Address: Can we just be friends with Pakistan? Speaker: Husain Haqqani. Moderator: Shekhar Gupta. set reminder	A conversation with William Dalrymple. Speaker: William Dalrymple. Moderator: Sam Miller. set reminder		Lingua Fluidica: Drama workshop for 8-13 year olds. Resource persons: Sarika Rampal, Neha Gandhi, Geeta Sharma. Powered by Manav Rachna International School. set reminder

SESSION 6.1 17:45-18:45	SESSION 6.2 17:30-18:30	SESSION 6.3 18:00-19:00	SESSION 6.4 17:40 - 18:40	SESSION 6.5 16:45-17:45	SESSION 6.6 16:30-17:30
Keynote Address: Ram Madhav on ‘India of my dreams.’ Moderator: Sanjiv Shankaran set reminder	India's uber-rich: How should they behave. Rohini Nilekani in conversation with Vikram Singh Mehta. set reminder	Was PV Narasimha Rao India's best Prime Minister? Panelists: Vinay Sitapati, Sanjaya Baru and Jairam Ramesh. Moderator: Suhel Seth. set reminder	The troubled career of Indian secularism. Panelists: Ayesha Kidwai, Akshaya Mukul and Rahul Pandita. Chair: Ramachandra Guha. Powered by New India Foundation. set reminder	Corruption@70. India: A Feast of Vultures. Panelists: Josy Joseph and Vinod Rai. Moderator: Nalin Mehta. set reminder	Cartooning workshop for children with Ajit Ninan. set reminder

SESSION 7.1 19:00-20:00	SESSION 7.2 18:45-19:45	SESSION 7.3 19:10-20:10	SESSION 7.4 19:10-20:10	SESSION 7.5 18:40-19:40	SESSION 7.6 18:00-19:00
India’s katha tradition. Speaker: Sonal Mansingh. Moderator: Malashri Lal. set reminder	Keynote Address: India@70: A historian's report card. Speaker: Ramachandra Guha. Moderator: Sagarika Ghose. set reminder	Devlok: Myth in the life of India. Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Vikas Singh. set reminder	India's John Grisham on writing romantic thrillers. Speaker: Ravi Subramanian. Moderator: Vinita Dawra Nangia set reminder	Cheers! Drinking in India. Palash Krishna Mehrotra in conversation with Indrajit Hazra. set reminder	Keynote Address: Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India on 'What I have learned about economic development from literature. Moderator: Gurcharan Das. set reminder

Stein	Silver Oak	Jacaranda	Gulmohar	Casuarina	Outdoor stage

SESSION 8.1 11:00-12:00	SESSION 8.2 11:15 - 12:15	SESSION 8.3 11:30 - 12:30	SESSION 8.4 11:45 - 12:45	SESSION 8.5 12:00 - 13:00	SESSION 8.6 12:00 – 13:00
Bonding with Ruskin : Ruskin Bond and kids. Speaker: Ruskin Bond. Moderator: Akash Banerjee. set reminder	Love in the time of ‘Note Bandhi’. Speaker: Ravish Kumar. set reminder	The Gujarat Files. Speaker: Rana Ayyub. Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan. set reminder	Delhi Times panel. 'Work Sucks'. Panelists: Prasoon Joshi and Nila Madhab Panda. Chair: Anshul Chaturvedi. set reminder	How will India deal with President Trump. Panelists: C Raja Mohan, Dhruva Jaishankar, Rajiv Malhotra and Arun Singh. Session powered by Carnegie and Brookings. set reminder	India's Broken Tryst. Tavleen Singh in conversation with Coomi Kapoor. set reminder

SESSION 9.1 12:15-13:15	SESSION 9.2 12:30 - 13:30	SESSION 9.3 12:45-13:45	SESSION 9.4 13:00 - 14:00	SESSION 9.5 13:15 - 14:15	SESSION 9.6 13:00 – 14:00
Azaadi: Should students dabble in politics? Panelists: Kanhaiya Kumar, Avijit Ghosh and Saket Bahuguna. Moderator: Sanjeev Singh. Session to be opened by Kanhaiya Kumar. set reminder	25 years of economic reforms. Panelists: Sanjaya Baru, Shiv Shankar Menon and Ashok Lahiri. Moderator: Harsha Vardhana Singh. Session powered by Brookings India. set reminder	Indian Postcards: Writings on India. Panelists: Sam Miller and Stephen Alter. Moderator: Akash Banerjee. set reminder	Does India Need AFSPA? Panelists: Binalakshmi Nepram, Siddharth Varadarajan. Moderator: Raghu Karnad. set reminder	Voices from the Valley: New writings from Kashmir. Shahnaz Bashir in conversation with Sameer Arshad. set reminder	Shadows from 1984: Delhi's Darkest Hour. Panelists: Rana Chinna, Humra Quraishi. Moderator: Vikram Kapur. set reminder

SESSION 10.1 13:30 - 14:30	SESSION 10.2 13:45 - 14:45	SESSION 10.3 14:00 - 15:00	SESSION 10.4 14:15 - 15:15	SESSION 10.5 14:30 - 15:30
Keynote Address: Speaker: Pratap Bhanu Mehta. 'Conversations on the Republic.' Moderator: Nalin Mehta. set reminder	Music in the Air: Riding the Airwaves. Panelists: RJ Raunac (RedFM), RJ Rohit (Mirchi), RJ Dev (BigFM) and RJ Ginni (City). Moderator: Akash Banerjee. set reminder		Atal and Amma: Chronicling Politicians. Panelists: Vijai Trivedi and Vaasanthi. Moderator: Sanjiv Shankaran.	Feasts and Fasts: Food in India. Speaker: Colleen Taylor Sen. Moderator: Kim Arora. set reminder

SESSION 11.1 14:45 - 15:45	SESSION 11.2 15:00 - 16:00	SESSION 11.3 15:15 - 16:15	SESSION 11.4 15:30 - 16:30	SESSION 11.5 15:45 - 16:45
Debating Modi Sarkar: The Role of the Opposition. Panelists: P. Chidambaram and Pavan Varma. Moderator: Rajdeep Sardesai. set reminder	Keynote Address: India@70: Looking Ahead at India's NITI. Speaker: Amitabh Kant. Moderator: Nalin Mehta. set reminder	Is Jinnah's idea of Pakistan dying? Speaker: Farahnaz Ispahani. Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan. set reminder	Making it in India: Poverty Stories of the Everyday Phoenix. Panelists: Meera Mitra, SY Quraishi and Harsh Mander. Moderator: TK Arun. set reminder	The devi - dayan trap: In search of the modern Indian woman. Panelists: Swati Chaturvedi, Malvika Rajkotia and Kavita Kane. Moderator: Amrita Tripathi. set reminder

SESSION 12.1 16:10 - 17:10	SESSION 12.2 16:15 - 17:15	SESSION 12.3 16:30 - 17:30	SESSION 12.4 16:45 - 17:45	SESSION 12.5 17:00 - 18:00	SESSION 12.6 16:00 - 17:00
Keynote Address: India@70. Speaker: P. Chidambaram. Moderator: Shubhashis Gangopadhyay. set reminder	Keynote Address: Montek Singh Ahluwalia on ‘India’s Economy: Challenges Ahead’.Moderator: TK Arun. set reminder	Picturing India@70. Speaker: Raghu Rai. Moderator: Shekhar Gupta. set reminder	Holy Cow: Cow Nationalism and the Dalit Bahujan. Panelists: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Rakesh Sinha and Pavan Varma. Moderator: Aman Sharma. set reminder	Women in Politics: Struggling up from the ladies compartment. Panelists: Margaret Alva and Meenakshi Lekhi. Moderator: Malvika Singh. set reminder	Rock on India: Celebrating music, cinema and the power of youth with Farhan Akhtar. Moderator: RJ Sayema, Radio Mirchi. set reminder

SESSION 13.1 17:15 - 18:15	SESSION 13.2 17:30 - 18:30	SESSION 13.3 17:45 - 18:45	SESSION 13.4 18:00 - 19:00	SESSION 13.5 18:15 - 19:15	SESSION 13.6 17:00 – 18:00
On Indian cinema : Sharmila Tagore unplugged. Speaker: Sharmila Tagore. Moderator: Shohini Ghosh. set reminder	Telangana: Old histories, new geography and the new state. Jairam Ramesh in conversation with Sanjiv Shankaran. set reminder	Radhika Vaz on standup comedy. Moderator: Akash Banerjee. set reminder	Fashioning India. Panelists: Ritu Kumar, Vidyun Singh and JJ Valaya. Moderator: Vinita Dawra Nangia. set reminder	Getting to the Top: Mantras for Success, From Chanakya to our times. Radhakrishan Pillai in conversation with Suhel Seth.. set reminder	Netaji: Living Dangerously. Speaker: Kingshuk Nag. Moderator: Abheek Barman set reminder

SESSION 14.1 18:30 - 19:30	SESSION 14.2 18:45 - 19:45	SESSION 14.3 19:00 - 20:00	SESSION 14.4 19:15 - 20:15	SESSION 14.5 19:30 - 20:30	SESSION 14.6 18:00 - 19:00
Go Limitless: The Paralympic success at Rio. Panelists: Devendra Jhajharia, Deepa Malik and Boria Majumdar. Moderator: Rajesh Kalra. set reminder	Author's corner: Reassessing Tipu Sultan through historical fiction. Speaker: Gayathri Prabhu. Moderator: Mathew John. set reminder	India's wars. Panelists: Raghu Karnad, Shiv Kunal Verma. Moderator : Manu Pubby. set reminder	Private universities and their public role: Role of universities in nation building. Panelists: Neemo Dhar and MK Vajpayee. Moderator: Sanjiv Kaura. Session powered by Manav Rachna University. set reminder	Delhi Times panel. Delhi and the times. Panelists: Vani Tripathi Tikoo, Prasoon Joshi and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Moderator: Anshul Chaturvedi. set reminder	Gramophone to studio, women recording and studio. Performance by Vidya Shah. set reminder

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