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