What's When and Where? Literati 2015

SESSION SCHEDULE  DAY 1 : Friday, 6^th 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, 7^th 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, 8^th 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.

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

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

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.’