Date Venue Time Programme Featuring Yatin Kakodkar - President, The International Centre Goa Damodar Mauzo, Co-curator - GALF, fiction writer & member - Goa Writers Edwin Thumboo - Eminent poet, Emeritus Professor - National University of Singapore Keynote Address: A Direction, by Charles Correa – 5:30 pm to 6:40 pm Inaugural function Internationally acclaimed architect & Urban Planner Auditorium I: Keynote Address: Books in a Social Media World, by Wendell Maquinez 04-Dec Rodricks – Internationally acclaimed designer & author Palace, ESG - Panaji Goa Unveiling the festival poster, exclusive art work by Subodh Kerkar Book Launch: Mahabaleshwar Sail's Konkani Novella 6:40 pm - 7:00 pm Aranyakand - Forest Saga translated into English by At the hands of Suresh Amonkar in the presence of Mini Krishnan Vidya Pai 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm Changing India: A Healthy Democracy? Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Sagarika Ghose Cocktails & Dinner for delegates at The International Centre Goa with a Goan folk performance by Kanta Gaude & 8:30 pm onwards Group
Children's Programme - Readings, Poetry, Featuring: Arundhathi Subramaniam, Samar Halarnkar, Katie 9:00 am to 11:00 am Journalism, Songs, Quizzes & more…… Bagli, Trusha Ganesh, Chee Malabar, Jessica Faleiro, Ali Aftab 5 to 7 Zuiyo Lawn, Hosted by Jugneeta Sudan Saeed, Dilip D'Souza and much more Dec ICG Exclusive Book Launch: Once upon a time in Goa by 10:30 am to 10:20 am Pantaleao Fernandes & Angela Ferrao Pantaleao Fernandes illustrated by Angela Ferrao
Recreation 07-Dec 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Exclusive Translations Workshop: Words World Mini Krishnan (by prior registration only) complex, ICG Mridula Sinha & Rati Saxena, Joyshree Roy in conversation with 10:00 am to 10:45 am Changing India: The Role of Hindi Astri Ghosh Fitz de Souza, Luis Assis de Correia & Teresa Albuquerque in 10:50 am to 11:35 am Republic of Kenya at 50: The Goan Contribution conversation with Eddie Fernandes Rajdeep Sardesai & Cyril Almeida in conversation with Samar 11:40 am to 12:25 pm Media 2014: Compromised Independence? Halarnkar 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm Book Focus: Daughter by Court Order Ratna Vira in conversation with Norma Alvares Mandovi Hall, 05-Dec 1:20 pm to 2:05 pm Book Focus: Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar Dilip D'Souza in conversation with Rajdeep Sardesai ICG 2:10 pm to 2:55 pm Book Focus: A Southern Music: The Karnatic Story T M Krishna in conversation with Sridala Swami Chee Malabar & Ali Aftab Saeed in conversation with Sachin 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm Artistic Journeys: Music & Politics Chatte 3:50 pm to 4:35 pm Artistic Journeys: Containing Multitudes Isa Kamari in conversation with Isabel S R Vas
4:40 pm to 5:25 pm Artistic Journeys: Academia, Novels, Painting Daisy Rockwell & Savia Viegas in conversation with Prava Rai
Ellen van Neerven, Jared Thomas & Nicole Watson in 10:00 am to 10:45 am Finding a Voice: Indigenous Australia conversation with Mridula Nath Chakraborty Devidas Gaonkar, Seby Rodrigues, Joao Fernandes, Marcos 10:50 am to 11:35 am Finding a Voice: Indigenous Goa Gonsalves in conversation with Cyril Fernandes Prajal Sakhardande & Naresh Ponnapa in conversation with 11:40 am to 12:25 pm Special Places: Special Status? Nandita Haksar Sandesh Prabhudesai, Vincy Quadros, Melvyn Rodrigues in 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Konkani: The Politics of Language conversation with Jose Lourenco 1:35 pm to 1:55 pm Initiative: Goa Food Festival Armando Gonsalves & Chef Vasco Alvares 05-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG 2:00 pm to 2:20 pm Initiative: Goa Bird Conservation Network Rajiv D'Silva & Parag Rangnekar 2:25 pm to 2:45 pm Initiative: Goa Photo Nikhil Padgaonkar & Lola MacDougall 2:50 pm to 3:10 pm Book Focus: Unforgotten Frederika Menezes, Isabel S R Vas & Mario Coelho 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm Writing in Colour Pierre Legrand in conversation with Anuradha Majumdar Abhay K, Kavery Nambisan & V Sanjay Kumar in conversation with 3:50 pm to 4:35 pm Parallel Journeys: Balancing Acts Mustansir Dalvi Keki Daruwalla & Ranjit Hoskote in conversation with Sridala 4:35 pm to 5:20 pm Parallel Journeys: Multiple Tracks Swami Exclusive Book Launch: Happy Valley Daze: Tales of 10:00 am to 10:30 am Pete Judd in conversation with Leonard Fernandes a Goa Gone by Pete Judd 10:35 am to 11:05 am Book Focus: The House With The Green Roof Ashish Vikram in conversation with Jugneeta Sudan Sagarika Ghose & Priya Ramani in conversation with Patricia J 11:10 am to 11:55 am Media 2014: Women Rising? Pereira-Sethi Lathika George, Kavery Ponnapa & Neerja Mattoo in conversation 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm Food Maketh Man? Cuisine as Identity with Fatima Silva Gracias 12:50 pm to 1:35 pm Culinary Journeys: Karen Anand Karen Anand in conversation with Aparna Jain Abolim Hall, Anuradha Goyal, Trusha Ganesh, Revati Upadhya & Helene 05-Dec 1:40 pm to 2:25 pm Finding a Voice: Blogging for Glory ICG D'Souza in conversation with Ulrike Rodrigues 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm Making a Scene: Dhaka, Kathmandu & Beyond K Anis Ahmed & Ranjit Hoskote in conversation with Thomas Bell
3:20 pm to 3:35 pm Sikkim: The Invention of Culture and Indentity Presented by Prava Rai
3:40 pm to 4:10 pm Book Focus: Losing My Religion Vishwas Mudagal in conversation with Harshvardhan Bhatkuly Exclusive Book Launch: A Spoke in the Wheel by 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm Amita Kanekar in conversation with Jason Keith Fernandes Amita Kanekar Exclusive Book Launch: Goa Travels by Manohar 4:50 pm to 5:20 pm Manohar Shetty & Abhay K Shetty
Wine Tasting Session (Limited seats, by prior 05-Dec Divli Lawn, ICG 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Conducted by Sula Wines registration only)
Exclusive Book Launch: The Black Hill by Mamang 5:30 pm to 6:10 pm Mamang Dai in conversation with Fr. Victor Ferrao Dai Exclusive Book Launch: Mirage by Damodar Mauzo, Damodar Mauzo & Vidya Pai in conversation with Maria Aurora 6:10 pm to 6:50 pm Zuiyo Lawn, translated by Vidya Pai Couto & Jose Lourenco 05-Dec Exclusive Book Launch: The Bullet and the Ballot ICG 6:50 pm to 7:30 pm Box: The story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution by Aditya Adhikari & Prashant Jha Aditya Adhikari Book Launch: 2014: The Election that Changed India 7:30 pm to 8:10 pm Rajdeep Sardesai & Naresh Fernandes by Rajdeep Sardesai
Poolside Lawn, 8:45 PM Album Launch: Feral Child by Chee Malabar 05-Dec ICG 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm 'Jazz Goa Trio' featuring Simon Hewitt-saxophone, Prashant Mahale-bansuri and Lenny Heredia-Keyboards Assembly point - ICG Front 7:00 am to 9:00 am Birdwatching in Dona Paula with Rajiv D'Silva - Goa Bird Conservation Network Office
10:00 am to 10:40 am Finding a Voice: Inventing Singapore Edwin Thumboo & Isa Kamari in conversation with Joshua Ip
10:45 am to 11:25 am Changing India: Culture, Custodianship & Inheritance Vidya Dehejia, T M Krishna & Rajmohan Gandhi
11:30 am to 12:10 pm Memory to Memoir: Writing Families, Writing Lives Vrinda Nabar in conversation with Maria Aurora Couto Exclusive Book Launch: Prince of Gujarat: The 12:15 pm to 12:55 pm Extraordinary Story of Prince Gopaldas Desai: 1887- Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Sudhir Kakar 06-Dec 1951 by Rajmohan Gandhi GALF Dr. B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture: Mandovi Hall, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Varsha Ayyar ICG Ambedkar and Reservations Sridhar Gowda, G S P Rao & Rati Saxena in conversation with Mini 2:05 pm to 2:35 pm Translocating India Krishnan Sheeba Shivangi Shah, Aditya Adhikari & Prashant Jha in 2:40 pm to 3:20 pm Finding a Voice: The New Nepal conversation with Thomas Bell 3:25 pm to 3:55 pm The Flickering Page: Writing & Flims Amrit Gangar in conversation with Arun Khopkar
Exclusive Book Launch: Recasting India: How Hindol Sengupta, R K Misra in conversation with Sudeep 4:00 pm to 4:40 pm Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Chakravarti Largest Democracy by Hindol Sengupta
Naresh Fernandes & Samar Halarnkar in conversation with 10:00 am to 10:40 am Media 2014: The Rise of the Start-ups Govindraj Ethiraj Books Focus: Korma, Kheer and Kismet & The Sood 10:45 am to 11:25 am Pamela Timms & Aparna Jain in conversation with Lathika George Family Cook Book 11:30 am to 12:10 pm Literary Journeys: Manifold Streams Sitanshu Yashaschandra in conversation with E V Ramakrishnan Clear.Hold.Build: Hard Lessons of Business and 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm Sudeep Chakravarti in conversation with Hindol Sengupta 06-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG Human Rights in India 2:05 pm to 2:45 pm Artistic Journeys: Embroidery Life, Weaving Dreams Alka Pande in conversation with Kirandeep Kaur Artistic Journeys: Goa as the Inspiration for 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm Wendell Rodricks in conversation with Vidya Dehejia Creativity 3:35 pm to 4:15 pm Literary Journeys: Almost Home Githa Hariharan in conversation with K Anis Ahmed 4:15 pm to 4:30 pm Poetry Reading Subodh Sarkar Konkani: New Voices of the Soil & Walter Menezes, Nayana Aadarkar, Harsha Shetye in conversation 10:00 am to 10:40 am Exclusive Book Launch: Kapaz Jaki by Wilfred Goes with Wilfred Goes Exclusive Book Launch: Sinful Goa: Paradise in Peril 10:45 am to 11:15 am Tony Martin in conversation with Augusto Pinto by Tony Martin Exclusive Book Launch: Learning at Bodhshala by Rajan Venkatesh & Therese Almeida with conversation with 11:20 am to 12:00 pm Rajan Venkatesh Claude Alvares Book Focus: Scent of a Game: Wildlife Conservation 12:05 pm to 12:45 pm Raghav Chandra in conversation with Robin Gupta Abolim Hall, ... 06-Dec ICG Selma Carvalho, Eddie Fernandes, Suneeta Peres da Costa in 2:05 pm to 2:45 pm Goa: The Diaspora Writes Back conversation with Ulrike Rodrigues 2:50 pm to 3:10 pm Book Focus: The Vanishing Kodavas Presented by Kavery Ponnapa 3:15 pm to 3:35 pm Book Focus: Bandra by Hand Presented by Savio Lobo Anil Samant & Neeta Torne: Geeta Gawas, Dattaprasad Jog, Paresh Naik, Vinay Madgaonkar, Shekhar Naik, Sandeep 3:40 pm to 4:30 pm Kavya Spandan: Picture Poetry - readings Manerikar, Satywan Pednekar, Vishnu Vete, Yuvraj Yadav, Dayanand Padloskar
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm Vehicles leave for Raj Bhavan 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm Reception hosted by the Honorable Governor of Goa at Raj Bhavan Mridula Sinha, Edwin Thumboo, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Keki Daruwalla, Ranjit Hoskote, Mustansir Dalvi, Sridala Swami, 06-Dec Arundhathi Subramaniam, Joshua Ip, Dileep Jhaveri, Manohar Raj Bhavan Luminous evening of poetry readings (& Exclusive 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Shetty, Salil Chaturvedi, Vishnu Surya Wagh, Menka Shivdasani, Book Launches) Rajay Pawar, Madhav Borkar, Naguesh Karmali, Rati Saxena, Abhay K, Arun Mhatre, Mamang Dai, E V Ramakrishnan, Subodh Sarkar
Dinner hosted by Hon Governor of Goa (by invitation only) Chandrabhan Prasad, Ellen van Neerven & Arun Khopkar in 10:00 am to 10:40 am Media 2014: Empowering the margins? conversation with Dilip D'Souza E V Ramakrishnan, Subodh Sarkar & Rati Saxena in conversation 10:45 am to 11:25 am Translating India: Vanishing Bilingualism with G S P Rao 11:30 am to 12:00 pm Changing India: A New Diplomacy? Abhay K & Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Prashant Jha
Exclusive Book Launch: A Railway Runs Through: Selma Carvalho in conversation with R. Benedito Ferrao, Eddie 12:05 pm to 12:55 pm Goans of British East Africa by Selma Carvalho Fernandes & Alan Rodrigues GALF Dr. B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Chandrabhan Prasad Mandovi Hall, Ambedkar’s India Project 07-Dec Daisy Rockwell, Vidya Pai & Neerja Mattoo in conversation with ICG 2:05 pm to 2:45 pm Are Translators Traitors? Musharraf Farooqi K. Anis Ahmed, Cyril Almeida, Aditya Adhikari in conversation with 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm Changing India: Towards A New Regionalism? Samar Halarkar 3:35 pm to 4:15 pm Exclusive Book Launch: Taste by Daisy Rockwell Daisy Rockwell in conversation with Musharraf Farooqi
4:20 pm to 5:00 pm Media 2014: Looking into the Subcontinent Thomas Bell & Sam Miller in conversation with Sreenivasan Jain
5:05 pm to 5:45 pm Book Focus: The world in my Hands K Anis Ahmed in conversation with Ali Aftab Saeed Augusto Pinto, Xaview Cota, & Mustansir Dalvi in conversation 5:50 pm to 6:30 pm Finding a Voice: Translation Dilemas with Kiran Budkuley
10:00 am to 10:55 am Panel Discussion: How to become a policy wonk? Sachin Kalbag, Sarah Farooqui, Raj Cherubal & Pavan Srinath Nitin Pai, Narayan Ramachandran, Manjeet Kripalani, Vinay 11:00 am to 11:55 am Panel Discussion: Can our politics do good policy? Sahasrabuddhe & MR Madhavan Screening: Narayan Gangaram Surve, a short film by 12:00 pm to 12:55 pm Presented by Arun Khopkar Arun Khopkar Exclusive Book Launch: Emails from India: Women 2:05 pm to 2:45 pm Janis Harper & Ulrike Rodrigues Write Home by Janis Harper 2:50 pm to 3:10 pm Poetry Reading: Central Time Ranjit Hoskote 07-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG 3:15 pm to 3:35 pm Poetry Reading: When God is a Traveller Arundhathi Subramaniam 3:40 pm to 4:00 pm Poetry Reading: Escape Artist Sridala Swami 4:05 pm to 4:25 pm Poetry Reading: Fire Altar Keki Daruwalla 4:30 pm to 4:50 pm Poetry Reading: Brouhahas of Cocks Mustansir Dalvi 4:55 pm to 5:35 pm Book Focus: The Smoke is Rising Mahesh Rao in conversation with Mustansir Dalvi Nicole Watson, Hazel Manuel, Kalyani Rao & Aarti Raman in 5:40 pm to 6:20 pm Finding a Voice: Writing for Genres conversation with Jessica Faleiro 10:00 am to 10:40 am Writing Cities: Kathmandu, Delhi, Bombay Thomas Bell & Sam Miller in conversation with Naresh Fernandes Why the Indian Man must Cook: For National 10:45 am to 11:15 am Samar Halarnkar Renewal Helene D'souza, Pamela Timms & Kornelia Santoro in 11:20 am to 11:50 pm Finding a Voice: the food bloggers conversation with Revati Upadhya Abolim Hall, 11:55 am to 12:25 pm Cooking for Happiness Kornelia Santoro & Samar Halarnkar 07-Dec ICG Kavery Nambisan, Githa Hariharan in conversation with Mahesh 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm Finding a Voice: How Novels Unfold Rao Yugank Naik, Anwesha Singbal, Wilfred Goes conversation with 2:05 pm to 2:45 pm Konkani and the New Media Sandesh Prabhudessai Nim Gholkar, Kalyani Rao, Janis Harper & Hazel Manuel in 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm Finding a Voice: Second Careers conversation with V Sanjay Kumar Saumya Balsari, Jared Thomas & Aumkar Shah in conversation 3:35 pm to 4:15 pm Finding a Voice: Writing for Young Adults with Jugneeta Sudan 4:20 pm to 5:00 pm Goa's First Diaspora Gopalkrishna Pai in conversation with Kiran Budkuley Abolim Hall, Media 2014: Golden Age for Little (and Literary) Suneeta Peres da Costa, Lola MacDougall, Menka Shivdasani in 07-Dec 5:05 pm to 5:45 pm ICG Magazines? conversation with G S P Rao Githa Hariharan & Fatima Noronha in conversation with Keki 5:50 pm to 6:30 pm Crafting Short Stories Daruwalla
Smoking Chutney - Goa's phenomenal latin-jazz-funk-blues band Laran 07-Dec Amphitheatre, 7:30 pm onwards Featuring: Chrystal Farrell-vocals, Benoy Rai-guitar, Sancho Menezes-keyboards, Colin D'Cruz-bass, Bosco D'Soza-drums ICG