The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023
Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct
Anita Vachharajani is a Mumbai-based writer. Her book Amrita Sher-Gil: Rebel with a Paintbrush has won the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar Award, 2021. The book is also on the IBBY Honor List, 2020. Her stories for children have appeared in The Puffin Book of Bedtime Stories, The Puffin Book of Spooky Ghost Stories, and in various picture books. Her translations of traditional rhymes feature in The Tenth Rasa: the Penguin Book of Indian Nonsense Verse. She has collaborated on a pictorial book Amazing India on the states of India.
sessions
Political and The Personal
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12th November
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Scars of the past, informing the stories of the present
Mamang Dai, Saskya Jain
Chair: Anita Vacharajani
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Aanchal Malhotra
Author, India
Aanchal Malhotra is an oral historian and writer from New Delhi, India. She is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, and writes extensively on the 1947 Partition…
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Adi Pocha
Author, India
Adi Pocha is a Mumbai based writer, who has written commercially for television and advertising since 1984. His writing credits include India’s first daily soap on TV, Shanti, with…
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Anil Pradhan
Poet, India
Anil Pradhan (he/him/his) is a PhD candidate and UGC Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; and his research focuses on the intersectional politics of…
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Anirudh Kanisetti
Author, India
Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and…
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