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
Major General Ian Cardozo was commissioned in the 5th Gorkha Rifles (FF) in June 1958 and has fought in the wars of 1962, 1965 and 1971. Wounded in the battle of Sylhet, he is the first war-disabled officer to be approved for command of an infantry battalion and brigade. He subsequently commanded an Infantry Division and retired as Chief of Staff of a corps. Post retirement he was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairman of the Rehabilitation Council of India. He is also an acclaimed author.
sessions
Allies & Enemies
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12th November
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Launch of Manoj Joshi’s In Hard Times followed by a discussion on India’s place in the new world order
Ian Cardozo, Manoj Joshi
Chair: Pravin Sawhney
Soldiering On
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13th November
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Launch of Ian Cardozo’s Cartoos Saab, followed by a discussion on the indomitable fighting spirit of an army man
Ian Cardozo in conversation with Ishita Thakur
More speakers
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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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