DAY 1 – FRIDAY – 15 SEPTEMBER 2017
9:00 – 9:30 | Venue: K K Hebbar Gallery and Art Center
Inauguration of Art Exhibition
9:00 – 9:30 | Venue: Study Room, MCPH
Inauguration of Photography Exhibition
9:30 – 10:00 | Venue: MCPH Pavilion
Inauguration of Book Fair
10:00 – 10:45 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Inauguration of Literary Meet by Chief Guest Prof Chandrashekhara Kambara. Guest of Honour Smt Vaidehi. Presided by Dr H Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, Manipal University, Manipal
10:45 – 11:45 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Inaugural Address by Chandrasekhar Kambara
11:45 – 12:00
Tea Break
12:00 – 1:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
A Poet’s Journey: A Glimpse into K Satchidanandan’s Creative World
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
New Directions in Kannada Literature with Mallepuram G Venkatesh, O L Nagabhushana, U Maheshwari, Vivek Rai, and Muraleedhara Upadhya
4:00 – 4:30
Tea Break
4:30 – 5:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Word to Reel: Girish Kasaravalli in conversation with N Manu Chakravarthy
DAY 2 – SATURDAY – 16 SEPTEMBER 2017
9:30 – 10:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Anjum Katyal and Shanta Gokhale on Writing and Theatre
10:30 – 11:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Sandip Roy on Writing about Family and Sexuality
11:30 – 11:45
Tea Break
11:45 – 1:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Mythology and Contemporary Sensibility: Kiran Nagarkar on Writing for Stage
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Understanding Blindness in Literature with Hemachandran Karah, L Subramani and Shilpaa Anand
4:00 – 4:30
Tea Break
4:30 – 5:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Bandish: A Literary Perspective by Anuradha Kuber
5:30 – 6:00
Tea Break
DAY 3 – SUNDAY – 17 SEPTEMBER 2017
9:30 – 11:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Literature Across Borders and Languages: The Art of Translation with Aleix Ruiz Falques, Kamala Ramaswamy, Nalini Thampi, Sajal Dey and N T Bhat
11:30 – 11:45
Tea Break
11:45 – 1:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Poetry and the Lyric in Jayant Kaikini’s Voice
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Complexities of Life Writing: Biography, Autobiography and Travelogue with Ira Pande
3:00 – 4:00 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Ananya Kasaravalli and Arunaraje Patil on ‘Freedom’ and Women Crafting Movies
4:00 – 4:30
Tea Break
4:30 – 5:30 | Venue: Gangubai Hanagal Auditorium
Dialogues between Writer and Critic with C N Ramachandran and Vivek Shanbhag