Thursday 5 November 2015

What's When and Where? Literati 2015

SESSION SCHEDULE  DAY 1 : Friday, 6th November 2015

TIME
VENUE
SESSION
SPEAKERS / M=Moderator
5:00pm
Main Lawn
Inaugural
Welcome Address: CLS Chair Dr Sumita Misra
Keynote Address: “I’ll Tell God Everything” by Kiran Nagarkar



6:45pm
Chandigarh Golf Club
Sufi Magic: Concert
Gurnazar Chattha and troupe

SESSION SCHEDULE  DAY 2 : Saturday, 7th November 2015

TIME
VENUE
SESSION
SPEAKERS / M=Moderator
10am
Main Lawn
Guftgoo: Conversation
Kiran Nagarkar, Nayantara Sahgal
11:15am
Main Lawn
Redrawing Contours of Art
Anusha Yadav, malavika Karlekar, Naman Ahuja, Tishani Doshi with Ashok Vajpeyi  (M)
11:15am
Side Lawn
The Past Casts a Long Shadow
Mridula Koshy, Sandip Roy with Vivek Atray  (M)
12:15pm
Main Lawn
On the Inside Looking Out
Mahesh Rao, Teesta Setlavad, Anupam Srivastava with Jonathan Gill Harris  (M)
12:15pm
Side Lawn
Reading Pot Pourie
Madhulika Liddle, Tishani Doshi, Ratna Vira with Puneet Kapoor  (M)
1:15pm
Main
Book Launch
Nilanjan Mukhopadhya’s “Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984”
2:00pm
Main
Phoolon ke Rang Se, Dil ki Kalam se
Kausar Munir, Munna Dhiman, with Suparana Saraswati Puri  (M)
3:00pm
Main Lawn
Write India
Ravi Subramanian, Ravinder Singh with Vinita Dawra Nangia (M)
3:00pm
Side Lawn
Whodunit
Jane De Suza, Madhulika Liddle with Aradhika Sharma (M)
4:00pm
Main Lawn
Book Launch
“Kashmir: The Loss of Innocence” by Kiran Narain Kohli
4:15pm
Main Lawn
Beware the Poet
Ashok Vajpeyi, Nayantara Sahgal, Tishani Doshi, Sumita Misra with Madhav Kaushik (M)
5:15pm
Main Lawn
Tasawwuf: Call of the Soul
Nighat Gandhi, Dhritabrata B. Tato, Sohaila Kapur, Neena Wagh, with Vijay Vardhan (M)
6:45pm
Main Lawn
SOHBAT: The Play
Directed and Choreographed by Sohaila Kapur

SESSION SCHEDULE  DAY 3 : Sunday, 8th November 2015


TIME
VENUE
SESSION
SPEAKERS / M=Moderator
10:00am
Main Lawn
The Child’s Play
Payal Dhar, Himanjali Sankar, Devika Rangachari with Jane De Souza (M)
11:00am
Main Lawn
Is Public Accountability a Myth?
Tavleen Singh, Leila Seth, with Sumita Misra (M)
12 noon
Main Lawn
Poetry Slam - I

12:15pm
Main Lawn
Virtually Yours
Gul Panag, Chandra Shekhar Varma, Sandip Roy, Gulzar Sandhu with Vivek Atray (M)
12:15pm
Side Lawn
Fursat Mein: Readings in Hindi/Punjabi
Prachand Praveer, Sharda Singh, Madhav Kaushik, Bubbu Tir with Saguna Jain (M)
1:00pm
Main Lawn
Musical Notes

2:00pm
Main Lawn
Lights, Camera Action: Surprises & Serendipity
Sudhir Mishra with Gul Panag (M)
2:45pm
Main Lawn
Wanderlust: The Stuff of Fantasy
Hugh & Colleen Gantzer, Amrita Chatterjee with Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu (M)
2:45pm
Side Lawn
Readings: Experiments and Experiences
Ashoke Mitra, Rishi Vohra, Chandra Shekhar Varma with Simran Grewal (M)
3:45pm
Main Lawn
From Self to Society
Renana Jhabvala, Leila Seth with Anupam Srivastava (M)
3:45pm
Side Lawn
Environment and Gender in Danger
Dhritabrata B.Tato, Kiran Nagarkar with Nandita Puri (M)
4:30pm
Main Lawn
Rediscovering the Three Musketeers: Bhishm Sahni, Ismat Chugtai and Saadat Hasan Manto”
Nighat Gandhi, Chandra Trikha with Vandana Shukla (M)
5:15pm
Main Lawn
Closing Session
Valedictory Address by Tavleen Singh
Closing Remarks by CLS Chair Dr Sumita Misra

Literati 2015 opens tomorrow

The third edition of Literati 2015 opens tomorrow.

6th November at 5pm, Lake Club, Chandigarh: Chandigarh Literary Societ’s litfest Literati 2015, inauguration with keynote address by Kiran Nagarkar.

6th November at 6:45pm: CLS Literati 2015: Sufi Magic by Gurnazar Chattha at Chandigarh Golf Club:



Wednesday 4 November 2015

Kiran Nagarkar to open Literati 2015

The curtain would rise on the 3rd edition of Literati 2015, the region’s mega literary festival organized by Chandigarh Literary Society (CLS) on 6th November. 

Kiran Nagarkar, who is  world’s 12th ranked novelist, playwright, screenplay writer and critic, would be delivering the inaugural keynote address at 5pm at the Lake Club.

Kiran is a recipient of Germany’s highest civilian award, the Cross of the Order of Merit for his bestseller novels, who has also recently come up with two-in-one book, Bedtime Story, a play, and Black Tulip, a screenplay.

His  Marathi novel Saat Sakkam Trechalis and his English novels  Ravan and Eddie, Cuckold,God's Little Soldier, The Extras and Rest in Peace Ravan and Eddie are amongst his famous works. His novels have been translated into Marathi, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. While Cuckold won the Sahitya Akademy Award for best novel in 2000, The New York Review of Books in 2012  published a review of Ravan and Eddie in their new e-book series, in which Katherine Boo called it a ‘Wicked, magical, hilarious, enduring: A masterpiece from one of world literature’s great cult writers.’