PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm, e Park Meltdown: From the Highlands of Tibet to WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY the Deltas of Asia 10.00 am - 1.00 pm, Modern High School Michael Buckley, environmentalist, ReadRite – An Interactive Litfest for Schools travel-writer & documentary lmmaker, in his Chief Guest: Justice Leila Seth. With writers Meltdown in Tibet, discusses the damage to Kanishk aroor, Pia Padukone, Devdan India & China’s fragile ecosystems from Chaudhuri, Sandip Roy & Indrapramit Das, extensive development projects. With Sutanu columnist & author Salil Tripathi, & litterateur Ghosh, environmental consultant & Tilottama aroor. Dr Sreeradha Dutta, Director, MAKAIAS, Presented with Modern High School. followed by an audiovisual presentation. For participating schools only. Presented with e Park, Pan Macmillan India & Oxford Bookstore. INAUGURATION APEEJAY KOLKATA LITERARY 7.30 pm, e Park FESTIVAL 2015 TASCHEN celebrates 125 years of National 6.30 pm, Indian Museum Geographic Creating & Sustaining: Cultural Heritage & Taschen, international publishers of art, design Contemporary India & photography books, celebrates 125 years of A panel discussion on tangible & intangible the iconic National Geographic magazine. heritage featuring Shashi aroor, Charles Renowned Paris-based photographer Reza Allen & Jawhar Sircar. Moderated by Swapan presents his award winning photography for Chakravorty. Guest of Honour Leila Seth. NatGeo & will be in conversation with Neha Commencing with a vibrant performance by Dara, Deputy Editor, National Geographic traditional artistes of Manipur, choreographed Traveller India. Moderated by Marc Parent, by Priti Patel & presented by Anjika. TASCHEN. Presented with the Indian Museum Bi-centenary Presented with e Park, TASCHEN & National Year Programme (BcYP) with support from the Geographic India, & Oxford Bookstore. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian ...... Studies (MAKAIAS). is event will be held SATURDAY, 17 JANUARY outdoors. Please join us for tea at 6.00 pm...... 10.30 am - 12.00 noon, Oxford Bookstore First Day First Show: New Voices in Fiction THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY On writing a rst novel: Saskya Jain, Pia 10.30 am - 11.30 am, Oxford Bookstore Padukone, Sorabh Pant, & Avik Chanda launch Of Memory & Repentance: Revisiting the their debut novels, followed by a conversation history of Bangladesh on writing a rst novel. Launch of e Colonel Who Would Not Repent: Presented with Oxford Bookstore. e Bangladesh War & its Unquiet Legacy by Salil Tripathi, followed by a discussion with K. Anis 12.00 noon - 1.00 pm, Oxford Bookstore Ahmed, writer & publisher, Bangladesh. A Case of Exploding Ideas: A Literary Presented with Aleph Book Company & Oxford Conversation Bookstore. Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer & journalist, in conversation with Ruchir Joshi, 11.30 am - 1.00 pm, Oxford Bookstore writer, lmmaker & columnist. In Search of the Indian Masterpiece Presented with Oxford Bookstore. Launch of A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces edited by David Davidar, with a reading from the 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm, Western Quadrangle, anthology by Shashi aroor, followed by a Victoria Memorial discussion with contributors Upamanyu Border Crossings: Across the Language Chatterjee, Shashi aroor, & Kanishk aroor. Divide Presented with Aleph Book Company & Oxford With Florence Noiville (France), K. Anis Ahmed Bookstore. (Bangladesh), Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan), moderated by Razi Ahmed, Director, Lahore 3.00 pm - 4.00 pm, Rabindranath Tagore Literary Festival. Guest of honour Nabaneeta Centre, ICCR Dev Sen. India Shastra: Points of View Presented with Victoria Memorial & Oxford Launch of India Shastra by Shashi aroor, a Bookstore. collection of essays on contemporary India. Guest of Honour Krishna Bose will release the 4.00 pm - 5.15 pm, Western Quadrangle, book, followed by a discussion with Sandip Roy, Victoria Memorial Senior Editor, Firstpost.com. Having the Last Word with Hanif Kureishi Presented with Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR. Hanif Kureishi CBE, British playwright, screenwriter, lmmaker, novelist & among 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm, Rabindranath Tagore e Times List (2008) of ‘ e 50 greatest Centre, ICCR British Writers since 1945’ interacts with Fairy Tales at Fifty: Twists in the Tale Kolkata audiences after three decades. e Launch of Fairy Tales at Fifty, Upamanyu author will be in conversation with author Chatterjee’s ‘wonderfully wicked & witty’ new Jeet ayil & Sujata Sen, Director, British novel, followed by readings & a conversation Council, Eastern India. with Jeet ayil. Presented with e Jaipur Literature Festival, Presented with Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR British Council, Victoria Memorial & Oxford & Oxford Bookstore. Bookstore.

5.00 pm - 6.00 pm, Rabindranath Tagore 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm, Western Quadrangle, Centre, ICCR Victoria Memorial Wild Tales of Bush & Field - Saad bin Jung in History between Literature & Social Science Conversation Eminent historian & writer Ramachandra Guha Saad bin Jung of the Pataudi royal house, dissects approaches to History. Followed by an author, columnist, former international interaction with Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor cricketer, wildlifer, angler, conservationist & Emeritus, Jadavpur University. photographer, launches Matabele Dawn, his Presented with Victoria Memorial & Oxford book of African travel writings. Chief Guest Bookstore. Sahebzada Wasif Mirza, descendant of the Nawab of Awadh, will release the book. e 7.00 pm, Lascar War Memorial author will be in conversation with Bikram Honour, Fidelity & the Great War Grewal, author, birdwatcher & conservationist Launch of Honour & Fidelity: India's Military & travel writer Michael Buckley. Contribution to the Great War 1914-18 by Presented with Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR Captain Amarinder Singh. To commemorate the & Oxford Bookstore. centenary of WW1, Capt. Singh, military historian, painstakingly retraces the footsteps 7.00 pm, Tollygunge Club of the Indian Battalions during the First World Beastly Tales - Fables for Our Times War. Audiovisual presentation & interaction A collection of pieces by Vikram Seth & with Sunanda K Datta-Ray, journalist & author. James urber. Motley presents a stage Chief Guest General Shankar Roychoudhury, rendition of Vikram Seth’s poetic parables former Chief of Army Sta, will release performed by Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak the book. Shah, Heeba Shah & Kenny Desai. Produced by Presented with Roli Books, Open Doors, INTACH Jairaj Patil. & Oxford Bookstore. is event will be held Presented with Tollygunge Club & Motley outdoors. Productions...... Please collect your passes from Oxford Bookstore, SUNDAY, 18 JANUARY Park Street. is event will be held outdoors...... 9.30 am - 11.00 am, Indian Museum e Literary Mile: A Literary Heritage Walk FRIDAY, 16 JANUARY Join fellow enthusiasts on a literary stroll down 9.00 am - 12 noon, Apeejay Lawns, Park Street historic Chowringhee & Park Street, starting e Hero in Me with Jeroninio Almeida from rare manuscripts at the Indian Museum In memory of Jit Paul. Motivational & to De Rozio’s grave in the Park Street Cemetery. leadership coach Jeroninio Almeida, author Starting at Indian Museum main gate at 9.30 am. of Karma Kurry, addresses students on the Presented with INTACH, Indian Museum & importance of Character, Karma & Individual Oxford Bookstore. With support from Calwalks & Social ResponsibilityTM, as exemplied by Presidency University Literary Society. Jit Paul, Karmayogi & mentor Apeejay Please pre-register at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street. Surrendra Group. Presented with 91.9 Friends FM, Apeejay Karmayuga, 11.30 am - 1.00 pm, Bengal Club i-Congo, Apeejay Schools & Oxford Junior. My Bookshelf: A Literary Adda Hanif Kureishi, Ashis Nandy, Ramachandra 10.30 am - 11.30 am, Oxford Bookstore Guha, Shekhar Gupta, Sugata Bose, Kalyan Ray, Whoddunit? A Crime Writers’ Conclave Mohammed Hanif, Tilottama aroor, Meera Crime Writers Caryl Ferey (France), Hakan Mitra, Ruchir Joshi, K. Anis Ahmed & others Nesser (Sweden), Zac O’Yeah (Sweden/India), at an informal ‘adda’. in conversation with Kishwar Desai. Presented by Oxford Bookstore & Bengal Club. Presented with the Hindustan Times Crime Writers Please collect your passes from Oxford Bookstore, Festival New Delhi, Crime Writers Forum of South Park Street. Asia, & Oxford Bookstore. Supported by French Book Oce & Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi. 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm, e Park Breaking rough - On Beating Poverty 11.30 am - 1.00 pm, e Park Launch of Meera Mitra’s Breaking rough: e Big Fat Bollywood Bubble India’s Stories of Beating the Odds on Poverty. Tisca Chopra, author of Acting Smart in a Followed by a discussion with lmmaker discussion on the romance of Bollywood with Goutam Ghose, social theorist Ashis Nandy & Amrita Chowdhury, Publishing Director, social activist Sudha Kaul. Chief Guest Ashis Harlequin India, & writer Ruchir Joshi. Nandy will release the book. Moderated by Moderated by Nandita Palchoudhuri. Anjum Katyal. Presented with Ladies Study Group, Kolkata & Presented with Rainlight Rupa & Oxford Oxford Bookstore, Park Street. Bookstore. Please collect your passes from Oxford Bookstore. 5.00 pm - 6.30 pm, e Park 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm, Indian Museum, 2nd Floor e Home & the World - Calcutta Revisited Literary Commons: Indigenous Literatures Launch of photographer Laura McPhee’s e & the 21st Century Home & the World – A View of Calcutta. Opening Australian indigenous writers Ali Cobby comments & moderation by Modhurima Sinha. Eckermann & Lionel Fogarty, in conversation Kalyan Ray, eminent author & academic, will with Mridula Chakravarty & Mona Zote, release the book. Guest of Honour, Joanne Esther Syiem, & Robin Ngangom, writers Joria, Director, American Center, Kolkata. from Northeast India. Moderated by Photographs displayed courtesy INTACH. Tilottama aroor. Presented with American Center Kolkata, Presented with the Indian Museum, Australia INTACH & Oxford Bookstore. Council for the Arts & Oxford Bookstore 7.00 pm, National Library Steps 2.30 pm, Oxford Bookstore Has India kept Her Tryst with Destiny? e Great Indian Blogging Contest Panel Discussion with Shekhar Gupta, Ashis Kolkata based bloggers meet for the award Nandy, Srinath Raghavan & Sugata Bose. ceremony for the best blog on the theme of Presented with National Library & Oxford e Great Indian Chamcha. University Press. Presented with e Times of India & Oxford is event will be held outdoors. Bookstore. With support from Kolkata Bloggers.

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm, Indian Museum Imploding Realities? Perspectives on 17-18 JANUARY Contemporary India 11.00 am - 4.30 pm, Launch of John Elliott’s Implosion: India’s Tryst Apeejay Lawns, Park Street with Reality, followed by a discussion with Oxford Junior Book Fest journalist Sajeda Momin & political An activity-crammed fun fest to commentator Shikha Mukerjee. Chief Guest promote a love of books & reading, Suranjan Das, Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta with interactive sessions of University, will release the book. story-telling, role-playing, Presented with the Indian Museum, HarperCollins improvisation, & more! With Publishers India, & Oxford Bookstore. famous writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen reading from her work, & talking 4.30 pm - 6.00 pm, Bhowanipore Educational to the children; & sessions led by Society College well-known Kolkata cultural e Great Indian: with Sorabh Pant personalities like S. V. Raman, Stand up comic & author Sorabh Pant lets it rip. novelist Anjana Basu, award A laugh a minute. winning theatre actor Ramanjit Presented with e Times of India. Kaur, theatre actor & writer Baishali Chatterjee Dutt; theatre 5.00 pm - 6.00 pm, e Park artiste Shuktara Lal, amongst Anticipating India: Issues of National others. Interest Curated & conducted by e Creative Launch of senior journalist Shekhar Gupta’s Arts. Presented with e Creative Anticipating India: e Best of National Interest, a Arts, Soi, Kolkata & Oxford Junior. ringside view of contemporary Indian history, For invited schools only. followed by a discussion with Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. Presented with e Park, HarperCollins Publishers India & Oxford Bookstore. Programme subject to change.

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