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AKLF 2018 is here! Welcome to Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2018! The internationally renowned and eagerly awaited Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) welcomes you back to the St. Paul’s Cathedral lawns. A non-prot initiative free for everyone, AKLF is the only literary festival to have emerged from a bookstore - the iconic 98 year old Oxford Bookstore. The upcoming 9th edition of AKLF is poised to scale new heights, with a meticulously curated programme, bringing the world and the nation to Kolkata. Speakers from across the globe, from Australia, UK, Scotland, France, Germany, Haiti and more. Join eminent novelists, lmmakers, artists, poets, and social commentators to bring you a heady mix of literature, arts and current affairs. This year we collaborate with Bonjour India, the prestigious French initiative across Literature and the Arts, as well as leading international festivals, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Henley Literary Festival, to present exciting programs; and reaffirm our link with the Jaipur Literature Festival through our exclusive Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. We offer a bigger and better Oxford Junior Literary Festival (OJLF) for young readers; announce a major new award for emerging women writers; bring you an array of India’s top poets at Poetry Café; and introduce Mind Your Own Business, a B2B segment for students and young professionals. Come join us! VENUES - St. Paul’s Cathedral 1A, Cathedral Road, Kolkata – 71 Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan 57 A Park Street, Park Mansions, Gate 4, Kolkata, West Bengal 700016 Tollygunge Club 120, Deshapran Sasmal Road, Saha Para, Tollygunge Golf Club, Tollygunge, Kolkata West Bengal 700033 Harrington Street Arts Centre 8, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, (opp The American Consulate, next to ICCR), Suite No. 5 & 25B 2nd Floor, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071 Indian Museum 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Rd, Colootola, New Market Area, Dharmatala, Taltala, Kolkata West Bengal 700016 Lalit Great Eastern 1,2,3 Old Court House Street, Dalhousie Square, Kolkata, West Bengal 700069 1 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE DAY 1 11TH JANUARY, 2018 (THURSDAY) St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Future Tent 10:00 - 10:30 OJLF is presented in association with Oxford Bookstores, The Teachers' Centre and The Creative Arts, Kolkata. OJLF Inauguration. With author Nandana Sen and singer Usha Uthup. Uma Kismat Paul opens the festival. 10:30 - 11:15 Big Little Book Award winner writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen. A dramatised reading by The Creative Arts, followed by an interactive session with the author. Presented with Parag - An initiative of Tata Trusts. 11:30 - 12:00 Talky Tumble at Jumble Farm Nandana Sen presents her new book Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm: an interactive session. 12:10 - 12:40 Telling Tales: Dancer Anita Ratnam shows how to tell stories through dance. 12:50 - 13:20 True to Life: Anita Agnihotri, award-winning author, discusses how fiction grows out of everyday experience. 13:30 - 14:30 Bookwise: Literary Quiz by Xquizit. For Middle School. 16:30 - 17:30 Metajingle. A multidisciplinary theatrical event with performers from France and Kerala. Presented with Bonjour India St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Oxford Pavilion 17:30 - 18:15 Cover to Cover. Announcing the Oxford Bookcover Prize shortlist. With jury members Alka Pande, Dayanita Singh. (Mod) Neeta Sreedharan. With a journey through Satyajit Ray’s book cover designs by Debasis Mukhopadhyay. Presented with Jaipur Literature Festival and Oxford Bookstores. 18:15 - 18:30 AKLF Inauguration 18:30 - 19:30 Salaam Mira! Three decades in Cinema. Internationally renowned filmmaker Mira Nair in conversation with writer Chandrahas Choudhury. 20:00 - 21:30 Plug-in* *Tickets available on bookmyshow/ at venue 2 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE DAY 2 12TH JANUARY, 2018 (FRIDAY) St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Future Tent 10:00 - 10:45 Doing My Bit: Thinking Green. An interactive session with theatre group Chupkatha led by veteran actor Dolly Basu and Areet Roychowdhury. 10:50 - 11:30 Time Travel: Namita Gokhale with her new book Lost In Time: Ghatotkacha And The Game Of lllusions. 11:40 - 12:20 Us and Them: From British Raj to today. With Catherine Maclean and Debanjan Chakrabarti. Presented with Edinburgh International Book Festival and An Lanntair, Scotland. Supported by British Council. 12:30 - 13:20 Akla Chalo Re: Excerpts from Three Women - A Musical Theatre. What can Tagore's women teach today's women? By Isheeta Ganguly with performers Avantika Averkar, Mahnaz Dhamania, Kohmal Khanna and Abhishek Chauhan. (Mod) Theatre artiste Ramanjit Kaur. 13:30 - 14:30 Joy Bangla! Exploring Sudeep Chakravarti's provocative new book The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community. Sudeep Chakravarti with socio- political pychologist Ashis Nandy and academic-cum-novelist Kalyan Ray. (Mod) Poet Sudeep Sen 14:40 -15:40 Out of the Woods? Last Girl First: The need of the hour. Poet and dancer Tishani Doshi performs her new poem. Followed by a discussion with activist Ruchira Gupta, student Juhi Khatoon. (Mod) Paromita Chakravarti 15:50 -16:50 Of Museums and Memory: Photographer Dayanita Singh unveils her critically acclaimed Museum Bhavan. Exploring the book as artefact and a museum of memory. With Prof. Swapan Chakravorty 17:00 -18:00 High Hitler? Norman Ohler discusses his NYT bestseller Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich with neuropsychiatrist Dr Chandrasekhar Mukherji and Raju Raman. Presented with Goethe Institut MMB Tollygunge Club 19:00 - 20:00 India@70: Recap. Review. Where do we stand as a nation? Mira Nair, Mark Tully, Bittu Sahgal, Advaita Kala. (Mod) Salil Tripathi. Presented with The Tollygunge Club**. **Passes available at Oxford Bookstore 3 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE DAY 2 12TH JANUARY, 2018 (FRIDAY) St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Oxford Pavilion 11:00 - 12:00 Travel and the Pleasures of Leisure. Award winning Australian writer Robert Dessaix in conversation with novelists Chandrahas Choudhury and Prajwal Parajuly. (Mod) Writer Sandip Roy. Chief Guest H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, High Commissioner of Australia. Supported by Australian High Commission. Presented with Flying Squirrel Holidays. 12:10 - 13:10 Of Nawabs and Kababs: The Cuisine of Lucknow A new look at the much-lauded Lukknavi cuisine by Sunita Kohli and Chand Sur. In conversation with Shahenshah Mirza, descendant of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, and leading food writer Pushpesh Pant. 13:20 - 14:20 Litfests and the Real World: Staying relevant With representation from UK, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Jaipur. Sue Ryan, Casi Dylan, Catherine Maclean, Namita Gokhale, Sanaz Fotouhi. (Mod) Sirish Rao. Supported by British Council. 14:30 - 15:30 Cities of the Future. Is there a new way of envisioning the city of tomor- row? With Anu Majumdar of Auroville, writer Naresh Fernandes, industrialist Harsh Neotia and architect Manit Rastogi. (Mod) G.M. Kapur, INTACH. 15:40 - 16:40 In the Shadow of the Himalayas. Namita Gokhale discusses her Himalayan trilogy with writer Prajwal Parajuly. 16:50 - 18:00 Crossing the Line: Women on the big screen who question, challenge, break the rules. Vishal Bhardwaj, Aparna Sen, Mira Nair, Ratna Pathak Shah, Nandana Sen. (Mod) Modhurima Sinha. Introduced by Prerana Langa. Presented with Yes Foundation 19:30 - 21:30 Plugin* St. Paul's Cathedral, Portico 18:00 - 19:00 Poetry Café Inauguration. Mauj-e-Saraab: Minu Bakshi presents her new Urdu ghazals. With cultural activists Sundeep Bhutoria and Saira Shah Halim. 19:00 - 19:30 Poetry Café Readings: Arthur Cardozo, Anjana Basu, Nalini Paul. *Tickets available on bookmyshow/ at venue 4 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE DAY 3 13TH JANUARY, 2018 (SATURDAY) St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Future Tent 10:00 - 10:40 Green Alert! Leading personalities Arindam Sil, Bittu Sahgal, Ravi Kant Sinha, Chief Wildlife Warden WB, and Joydip Kundu in an interactive session on nature. Presented with NGO SHER and Sanctuary Nature Foundation. 10:45 - 11:25 India@70: Leading theatre group The Creative Arts conducts an interactive session. 11:30 - 12:10 #Trending: What do young readers want? With global children's literature guru Daniel Hahn and publisher Karthika V. K. (Mod) Educationist Devi Kar. Presented with Henley Literary Festival, UK, and British Council 12:10 - 12:50 A Dog's Life: Leading children's writer Gillian Wright with her fun book about Mishti the Mirzapuri Labrador. 13:00 - 14:00 Women Writers Worldwide - The Challenges Ahead Award-winning Austra- lian writer Anna Funder, Sanaz Fotouhi of Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators, Bangladesh-US writer Abeer Hoque, Scottish poet Nalini Paul. (Mod) Tishani Doshi. With support from the Australian High Commission and British Council. An Inner Quest: Expressions of spirituality. Kabir, Gurbani, Auroville: 14:10 - 15:10 explorations and discoveries. Vidya Rao on Kabir, Anu Majumdar on Auroville, while Minu Bakshi sings Gurbani. (Mod) Prof Kavita Panjabi. Reversing the Gaze: How the experiences of the ex-colonies can inform 15:20 - 16:20 postcolonial thinking. Mahmood Mamdani, Hon. Harinder Sidhu, Mark Tully, Jawhar Sircar. (Mod) Sujata Sen A Book is Born: The Art of Making a Book. Discussing Witness, Rehearsing 16:30 - 18:00 Freedom and more. Sudhanva Deshpande, Sanjay Kak, Itu Chaudhuri, Shernaz Dastur, Madhubanti Roy Chowdhury. (Mod) Arundhati Ghosh. Presented with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) 18:10 - 19:00 Age of the Strongman Basharat Peer discusses his forthcoming book on the current global political situation with Salil Tripathi. St. Paul's Cathedral Portico 18:00 - 18:45 The French Connection: An Evening of Erotica. French-Haitian poets James Noel, Makenzy Orcel; and Sudeep Sen's poems in French and English transla- tion, introduced by Zulma Publisher Laure LeRoy. Presented with Bonjour India 18:50 - 19:30 Poetry Café Readings: Jerry Pinto, Avik Chanda, Mousumi Banerjee, Ananya Chatterjee 5 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE DAY 3 13TH JANUARY, 2018 (SATURDAY) St. Paul's Cathedral Lawns, Oxford Pavilion 11:00 - 12:00 The Big Brother Syndrome: On censorship and popular culture. Social commentators C.P. Surendran, Salil Tripathi, Sudeep Chakravarti, Ananya Vajpeyi.