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Poetry Café
Friday, 17 January 2020
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY 10.00-10.50 Of Feathered Friends: Stories by Sarita Dasgupta.
11.00-12.00 Nabaneeta Dev Sen RevisitedThe Creative Arts (TCA) present a dramatised story by Nabaneeta Dev Sen. Followed by a conversation with her daughters Nandana Dev Sen and Antara Dev Sen.
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN AUDITORIUM 10.00-11.00 Wild Life TalesWith Green Oscar award winning �lmmaker Ashwika Kapur.
11.00-12.00 Bulbul Sharma - My Favourite ThingsAn interactive session.
Saturday, 18 January 2020
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY
10.00-10.50 Poetry Open Mic With Joie Bose. Read your original poem in any language. For 8-12 year olds.
11.00-12.00 Making Moves: Nature and Us
Storytelling through Dance. A workshop with Sohini Roy Chowdhury.
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN AUDITORIUM
10.00-11.10 Know Your CityA Heritage Quiz by Calcutta Heritage Collective.
11.15-12.00 True Crime: Stories from the �lesWith Subrata Biswas (Narcotics Expert) and Vivaan Shah.
Sunday, 19 January 2020
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY10.00-10.50 Stories of Bapu's Experiments with FoodArthy Muthanna Singh shows us a little-known side of Gandhiji.
11.00-12.00 From Italy with LoveWith storyteller Emanuela Sabbatini
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN AUDITORIUM 10.00-10.50 Aman ki AshaRuchhita Kazaria talks of cross border friendship and postcards for peace.
11.00-12.00 Terribly Tiny Tales With Sonali Lahiri.
ALLEN PARK11.30-12.00 Mobile library for street children. Apne Aap and Oxford Bookstore.
Friday, 17 January 2020
18.00-18.50 City MedleyNew poems by city poets Debasish Lahiri, Sunil Bhandari, Baisali Chatterjee Dutt, Anjana Basu, Rajorshi Chakraborty, Mehul Devkala.
19.00-20.00 Earth has music for those who listenWith Bulu Mukhopadhyay, Jaydeep Sarangi, Lapita Sarkar, Rajdeep Dutta, Sourish Samanta, Riya Dhole, Mayuki Ghosh, Anwesha Chakraborty Payel Sadhya. Presented by New Alipore College, English Department
Saturday, 18 January 2020
18.00-18.40 Poetry in a Time of TurmoilDiscussion on the role of the poet in dark times, with Ananda Lal, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sharmila Ray.18.45-20.00 Healing Words Readings by Ananda Lal, Ananya Chatterjee, Amit Shankar Saha, Gopal Lahiri, Jaydeep Sarangi, Madhu Sriwastav, Nishi Pulugurtha,
Nabanita Sengupta, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sutapa Chaudhuri, Sanghita Sanyal, Saptaparna Roy, Tania Chakravertty, Sharmila Ray, Amita Ray. Moderator: Joie Bose. Presented by IPPL
Sunday, 19 January 2020
18.00-18.40 MarginSpeak Poetry Slam with poet/performer Keith Jarrett of the UK. Moderator: Radhika Singh.In association with British Council
18.45-19.25 Apocalypse Now Swiss poets Marc Lee and Markus Kirchhofer read their work on nature and the environmentModerator: Radhika Singh.Co-presented with the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
19.30-20.00 Open MicStraight from the Heart. Moderator: Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY
Friday, 17 January 2020
ALLEN PARK
11.30-12.15 Inaugural Session: Forgotten TreasuresWilliam Dalrymple presents his new book Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, followed by a conversation with Jawhar Sircar.
12.20-13.00 Top of the Pops: What today's readers wantVivaan Shah, Kavita Kane, Karuna Ezara Parikh, Lisa Heidke.Moderator: Jimmy Tangree
13.10-14.00 In a New Light: Revisiting Dara Shukoh, Sri Chaitanya and Veer Savarkar.Vikram Sampath, Avik Chanda, Chitrita Banerji. Moderator: Oindrilla Dutt
14.10-15.00 Homelands: Identity, nationalism and belongingSamrat Choudhury, Bronwyn Fredericks, Carlo Pizzati, Saira Shah Halim. Moderator: Saaz Aggarwal
15.10-16.10 Frenemies? How political can literature truly be? Paul Zacharia, Anita Heiss, Sandip Roy, Saikat Majumdar, Devasis.Moderator: Antara Dev Sen
16.20-17.10 Ghawre-Bairey Today - contemporising the classic.Aparna Sen discusses her latest �lm with Piya Chakraborty, Samik Bandyopadhyay.Moderator: Modhurima Sinha
17.20-18.20 A Life in Literature: In tribute to Nabaneeta Dev SenWith Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Antara Dev Sen, Nandana Dev Sen, Samik Bandyopadhyay.Moderator: Anjum Katyal
18.30-19.20 David vs Goliath: e Individual and the StateJawhar Sircar, Lal Bhatia, Sumona ChakravartyModerator: Shutapa Paul
19.30-20.30 Legacy Wars: e Politics of History in IndiaJaimini Bhagwati, Ruchir Joshi, Jawhar Sircar, Vikram Sampath, Anik Dutta.Moderator: Shikha Mukerjee
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY
15.00-16.30 AKLF Adda: Fridays for FutureWith Karuna Ezara Parikh, Ajay Mittal, Mallika Jalan, Suchismitra Sen Basu, Abhinav Bajpai, Madhuri Bhattacharya.
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DU BENGALE
12.30-13.30 Café Littéraire: Calcutta Encore!
Author Shumona Sinha skypes in to talk about the English translation of her French novel Calcutta. In association with Alliance Francaise du Bengale
18.00-20.00 Film Screening: Into the LabyrinthOn Indologist Alain Danielou. Dir. Riccardo Biadene Followed by audience interaction.
With the Italian Cultural Centre and Alliance Francaise du Bengale
OXFORD BOOKSTORE
18.00-20.00 Poetry in Social Media Somak Sinha, Karuna Ezara Parikh, Su�a Khatoon, Ayushman Jamwal.
In association with Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust
Saturday, 18 January 2020
ALLEN PARK
12.00-12.50 ABC Go! Bulbul Sharma, Savvy Soumya Misra, Kaveree Bamzai discuss reading as empowerment with Devi Kar. Followed by the launch of Savvy Soumya Misra's Beyond Charity. In association with Oxfam India
13.00-13.50 From Here to ere: Travel, Discovery, AdventureJo Lendle, Paul Zacharia, Carlo Pizzati, Prajwal Parajuly. Moderator: Monica Shie
14.00-14.50 Regret to Redemption?Rajat Gupta in conversation with Kaveree Bamzai.
15.00-15.50 Reigning Supreme? Interrogating the Judiciary Abhinav Chandrachud, Arunava Ghosh in conversation with human rights lawyer Debjyoti Ghosh.
16.00-16.50 And the Winner Is… Announcing the Prabha Khaitan Woman's Voice Award 2019With Shobhaa De and jurors Anita Agnihotri, Saikat Majumdar, Anjum Katyal, Sundeep Bhutoria.Moderator: Shutapa PaulCo-presented with Prabha Khaitan Foundation
17.00-17.50 Atmakatha - e Usha Uthup StoryEveryone's beloved Didi, popstar Usha Uthup opens up about her personal journey, with her biographer journalist Vikas Jha. Moderator: Ramanjit Kaur
18.00-18.50 Sing my Beloved CountryUsha Uthup on how music celebrates a multicultural India. With Bachi Karkaria.
19.00-20.10 Metamorphosis: e
journey from book to screenBachi Karkaria, Saurabh Shukla, Anand Neelakantan.Moderator: Raju Raman
Pop up interventions and interactions by French theatre group Les Souffleurs
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY & AUDITORIUM
15.00-16.30 AKLF Adda: Pride and Prejudice Experiences and perspectives across the Pride Rainbow spectrum. Pawan Dhall, Sandip Roy, Sangeeta Dutta, Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, Debjyoti Ghosh.
16.40-17.50 More and Less – �ying through a three dimensional bookAn immersive book ride, which transports us beyond the word on the page into the world of a book. With Swiss artist/authors Markus Kirchhofer and Marc LeeCo-presented with the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DU BENGALE
12.30-13.30 Café LittéraireInteractive session with Les Souffleurs.Co-presented with Institut Francais and Alliance Francaise du Bengale
19.00-19.45 Orient ExpressFrench author Iréne Frain discusses her connections with the Orient with Christine Cornet. Formal opening of the new Alliance Francaise space.With Institut Francais
OXFORD BOOKSTORE
14.00-16.00 Can Comics be modern mythology? Pinaki De, Ayushman Jamwal.
In association with Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust
17:00–19:00 Build Your BrandA Workshop on innovative marketing techniques by Penguin Senior Vice President, Niti Kumar.
TOLLYGUNGE CLUB MAIN LAWN
18.30-19.30 Living Life Queensize: Women who Win. From the Epics to Today. Shobhaa De, Kavita Kane, Kaveree Bamzai. Moderator: Sandip RoyCo-presented with The Tollygunge Club
Sunday, 19 January 2020
ALLEN PARK
11.30-12.20 e Feel Good Factor: e eternal appeal of romancePreeti Shenoy, Lisa Heidke.
Moderator: Milee Ashwarya
12.30-13.20 By Design: Announcing the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize Shortlist. With juror Shobhaa De, artist and author Bulbul Sharma, and book designer Sunandini Banerjee.Moderator: Niti Kumar
13.30-14.50 Shut Up or Shut Down: Dissent and DemocracyAbhinav Chandrachud, Prayaag Akbar, Ruchir Joshi, Anuradha Bhagwati, Kaushik Sen.Moderator: Sharmistha Goswami Chatterjee
15.00-15.45 SheShines: Feminism as force of change Garima Gupta, Anuradha Bhagwati.Moderator: Ayushman JamwalIn association with Kunwar Viyogi Memorial Trust
15.50-16.40 To Dream the Impossible DreamJo Lendle on the adventures of pioneering explorer Wegener. In conversation with Sandip Roy.In association with Goethe-Institut / Max Muller Bhavan & Seagull Books
16.45-17.35 Girl, Interrupted: Empowering the girl child Emanuela Sabbatini, Leena Kejriwal, Sujata Sen, Virendra K. Arora.Moderator: Mukherjee Jhimli Pandey In association with Karamchand Thapar Foundation
17.40-18.30 e Last Word: Publishing and the Woman Boss. Karthika V K, Preeti Vyas, Milee Ashwarya, Niti Kumar.Moderator: Anjum Katyal
18.40-19.30 Ikigai: A Japanese Way of Being Francesc Miralles in conversation with Karuna Ezara Parikh.
19.30-20.30 e Many Sides of Saurabh Shukla Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright. In conversation with Vinay Sharma.
GOETHE-INSTITUT / MAX MUELLER BHAVAN LIBRARY
15.00-16.30 AKLF Adda. In or Out:North-East India and Questions of Belonging. Manogya Loiwal, Samrat Choudhury, Prajwal Parajuly, Bijoya Sawian and Sabah Al-Ahmed.
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DU BENGALE
12.30-13.30 Café Littéraire Chinmoy Guha on the French New Novel and its discoveries.Presented with Alliance Francaise du Bengale and Institut Francais
17th - 19th January
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