David Sassoon Library Garden
7/2/2009
Urvashi Butalia will officially open the Kalaghoda literature festival with a lecture. This is to be followed by a brief discussion with Anita Roy, the moderator, and an interactive session with the audience.
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7/2/2009
20:30-21:30
A panel discussion on why Bollywood does not seem to seek inspiration closer home, in the wealth of locally produced, original works of fiction. Moderated by Jerry Pinto. Panel includes Mayank Shekhar, Anuvab Pal, Chetan Bhagat, Niranjan Iyengar, Shashank Ghosh and Dibakar Banerjee
Calling poets, performers, writers from all genres, any language!
There are ten minute Open Mic slots for those who mix writing with performance. Between all launches, discussions and events at the David Sasoon Library Garden, writers are welcome to bring their original work to the stage. Performers will have about minutes each. First come, first served.
If you’ like to go up on stage, please register at the Open Desk (which comprises of the volunteers/ members of the literature curating team. One of us will be hanging around near the stage). No nudity, please. And no slander.
8/2/2009
20:15-21:15
Anita Roy in conversation with Paul Zacharia, on the art of the short story.
7/2/2009
18:10-19:10
Film writer Jaideep Sahni will be in conversation with Rama Bijapurkar, author of ‘We are Like That Only’. This will be followed by a brief interactive session with the audience (Click here to read the whole post)
Saturday, 14th February, 6pm - 7pm
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Auditorium
A sing-along event, conducted by Narayan Parasuram and Rekha Mohan,with kids below the age of 8 on Indian rhymes, the likes of our pails of water and all the king’s horses, replete with colours of kites, monsoons and eating mangoes.
Sunday, 15th February, 5pm - 6pm
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Auditorium
Age Group: 5-7
Maximum Number of Participants: Open
An interactive reading/performance of poems, along with visuals, by Anushka Ravishankar
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Saturday, 14th February; 5pm - 6pm
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Auditorium
Age Group: 8-15
A select reading of poems of all shapes and sizes for the young. Writers from all over India have contributed to a collection of poems for an anthology to be published by Sahitya Akademi, edited by Anju Makhija and Jane Bhandari. These poems will be read out by Anju Makhija, Jane Bhandari, Marilyn Noronha, Anushka Shinde and Company.
Sunday, 8th February, 6pm-7pm
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Auditorium
Age group: 9 to 12
Sandhya will present two Gandhi books — Picture Gandhi and My Gandhi Scrapbook — as an AV and it will be a highly interactive session with the kids.
David Sassoon Library
15/2/2009
19:20-21:30
The final round of the poetry slam contest will be held. In between, there will be performances that have emerged as the outcome of some of our workshops. The evening ends with the announcement of the results from all the contests.
Saturday, 14th February.
Elphinstone College Seminar Room
Sunday, 15th February.
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Auditorium
10.30 am – 12.30pm
Quizmaster: Sumant Srivathsan
The Literature Quiz, as the name implies, is meant to cover topics related to published works of prose and poetry, including fiction, non-fiction and graphic novels, and some aspects of language, such as etymology and the history of words. The quiz will cover writings in a variety of languages and from all parts of the world.
11/2/2009
19:20-20-20
An informal freewheeling session, facilitated by editor Arundhathi Subramaniam. It will feature a spectrum of poems from the website - in the original and in translation: from the Gujarati poetry of Prabodh Parikh to the Marathi poetry of Hemant Divate. There will also be readings of translations from Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Khasi (read by poet Jerry Pinto and stage actor Radhika Mital), and the Urdu poetry of Gulzar (read by translator-actor Salim Arif).
Venues: Kala Ghoda Cafe, Samovar (Jehangir art gallery café), David Sassoon Library Garden
10/2/2009
17:00-19:10
A PEN event that explores spaces for poetry through relay readings by fourteen poets, spanning three venues in the Kalaghoda art district.
Featured poets: Adil Jussawalla, Jeet Thayil, Ranjit Hoskote, Jerry Pinto, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Malavika Sangghvi, Sampurna Chattarji, Peter Griffin, Manisha Lakhe, Annie Zaidi, Mustansir Dalvi, Vivek Tandon, Arjun Bali, Rochelle Potkar.
11/2/2009
18:10-19:10
An evening of readings by a few of the city’s leading Gujarati poets, coordinated by Dilip Zaveri. Featured poets: Kamal Vora, Nitin Mehta, Sanskuti Rani Desai, Udayan Thakkar, Dilip Zaveri, Urvashi Pandya.
10/2/2009
19:20-20:20
A discussion on whether languages are slowly dying and what factors are responsible, moderated by Dilip Zaveri. Panelists: Hasan Kamal, Manoj Shah, Samar Khadas (Click here to read the whole post)
6th–14th February '10
A project of the Literature festival
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