Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Hyd Lit Fest 2012 Schedule

And we're back!

There's lots of stuff to blog about, but it will have to wait until after the Hyd Lit Fest, which begins on Monday, 16th and ends on Wednesday, 18th Jan.

All events at the Taramati Baradari. Everything is free and open to all. Do come, register and listen to lots of wonderful people.

There's a schedule up on the HLF site, but some sessions have been moved around or have been cancelled for various reasons. Here's the latest - and hopefully final - schedule.

Please note: I'm in conversation with Adil Jussawalla on the 17th of Jan from 11am to noon.

Hope to see some of you there!



Mon 16 Jan
Venue 1
Venue 2
Venue 3
10 - 11
Inaugural
Pavan K Varma, Gulzar 


11- 12
Romancing Hyderabad
Bilkeez Latif, Aminuddin Khan, Narendra Luther (Moderator)
Salaam Hyderabad
Vamsee Juluri, Harimohan Paruvu, Krishna Sastry, Meena Alexander (Moderator)
Celebrating Creativity - Contests for College students
Sujatha Gopal, Student Coordinators
12 - 1
In Conversation
Kiran Nagarkar
with Hemant Divate & Sachin Ketkar
Readings (English)
Hoshang Merchant, Robert Bohm, Nabina Das, Mohan Ramanan (Chair)
             - do -
  1 – 2 LUNCH
2 - 3
In Conversation
Urs Widmer and Christopher Kloeble
with Charanjeet Kaur & Amita Desai
Translating Bharat
Sachidananda Mohanty, Hemang Desai, N Gopi, UN Singh (Moderator), Jeelani Bano
Celebrating Creativity - Contests for College students

3 - 4

Past Continuous

Amish Tripathi, Indu Sundaresan, Jaishree Misra

T Vijay Kumar (Moderator)

Readings (Poetry)
Mamta Sagar (Chair), Arathi HN, Sridala Swami, Arjun Choudhury,
             - do -
4 – 4.30 TEA
4.30 – 5
Muse India Awards – Adil Jussawalla, to give away the Awards.
UN Singh, Sachidananda Mohanty, GSP Rao


5 – 6
Guftagu with Gulzar
Sukrita Paul Kumar



6.30 – 7.00  - Launch of Pavan Varma’s book ‘When Loss is Gain
7.00 – 8.30  - Cultural Event – German Music Band - Triotonos
Tue 17 Jan
Venue 1
Venue 2
Venue 3
10 - 11
In Conversation
Saeed Mirza with Indraganti Mohan Krishna &
T Vijay Kumar

Readings (Poetry)
Angshuman Kar (Chair), Mandakranta Sen, Anindita Sengupta, Santosh Alex
Gulzar’s interaction with Students
11 - 12
In Conversation
Adil Jussawalla
with Sridala Swami
Readings (Poetry)
Hemant Divate (Chair), Sachin Ketkar,
Anitha Thampi, UN Singh
            - do -
12 - 1
The Agony & Ecstasy of India
Mark Tully & Pavan K Varma

 








1 – 2 LUNCH
2 - 3
Translating Classics, Cultures
Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Gillian Wright, Madhu Benoit (Moderator)
Readings (Telugu Poetry)
Chennaiah V (Doraveti), Raja Hussain, Sailaja Mithra, N Gopi (Chair)
Celebrating Creativity  – Contests for College  Students
Sujatha Gopal, Student Coordinators
3 - 4

Development and its Discontents

Rahul Pandita, C  Rammanohar Reddy,
G Haragopal (Moderator)

Readings (Telugu Fiction)
Abburi Chhaya Devi, Khadeer Babu, Saleem, Atreya Sarma U
C Mrunalini (Chair)
            German Movie
                (120 mts)
4 – 4.30 TEA
4.30 – 5

Book Launch – Sagarika Chakraborty

5 – 6

S Rayaprol Prize Function –
Meena Alexander, Aparna Rayaprol,
Aditi Rao, Sachidananda Mohanty


6.00 – 6.30
6.30 – 7.30
7.30 – 8.30
Book Launch – Vidya Rao’s books
Vidya Rao (Hindustani Vocal)
Ananda Shankar (Dance)



Wed 18 Jan
Venue 1
Venue 2
Venue 3
10 - 11
In Conversation
Suniti Namjoshi
with C Vijayasree

Spl Programs for School Students – Cheryl Rao, Vandna Mathur
11- 12
Art of the Matter
Alekhya Punjala, Vidya Rao, Pritham Chakravarthy, M Nagabhushana Sarma (Moderator)

Adopting / Adapting to India

Gillian Wright, Mark Tully,
Robert Bohm, Meitim Connolly
Jean-Manuel Duhaut (Moderator)

                 - do -
12 - 1
Readings (English)
Navkirat Sodhi, Kazim Ali, Prageeta Sharma, Meena Alexander (Chair)
Readings (Fiction-English)
K Srilata Rao, Swati Chawla, Sagarika Chakraborty, Sudha Balagopal (Chair)
                  - do -
1 – 2 LUNCH
2 - 3
“’Death, be not proud’: Tributes to Vaclav Havel, Indira Goswami and Arun Kolatkar”
Readings by The Little Theatre.
Shankar Melkote and team
Readings (Urdu nazms)
Ashraf Rafi, Hasan Farrukh, Mushaf Iqbal Tausifi (Chair), Masood Jafri

3 - 4
Readings (English Poetry) –
Charanjeet Kaur (Chair), M K Ajay , Amrita Nair, Semeen Ali, Sushmita Sadhu

Readings (Hindi Poetry)
Rishabha Deo Sharma (Ch), Ahilya Misra, Shashi Narayan Swadeen, Kishori Lal Vyas
             
                     4 – 4.30 TEA
4.30 – 5.30
Urdu-Hindi Mushaira
Muztar Majaaz, Sardar Saleem, Jagjeevan Asthana, Tasneem Johar, Elizabeth Kurian Mona, Syed Khalid (Chair), Narendra Rai


5.30 – 6
Valedictory
GSP Rao, T Vijay Kumar, Amita Desai




3 comments:

Swar Thounaojam said...

Dude, this is sooper cool. I would have come off if I didn't have another festival in Bombay at the same time.

Anonymous said...

is gulzar coming? please, tell me gulzar is coming!

Space Bar said...

Swar: Come come! Forget Bombay!

Anon: Yes, as far as I know he is.