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
Ifẹ Grillo is an award-winning writer, producer, performer, and educator. Ifẹ’s work focuses on unpacking what it means to be human in an innovative and engaging way and has been featured in the BBC, Bristol Old Vic, Penguin Books, Tinder and more. In 2021, they were one of the Co-Authors of Penguin’s Black Joy Anthology. They’re a National Poetry Finalist and won the UK University National Poetry Championships in 2020.They’ve always made empowering young people their mission and in 2020, they became the youngest ever trustee of the NSPCC. Ifẹ also won the World Junior Debate Championships in 2016.
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Language Is A Queer Thing
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13th November
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
A poetry recitation of brand new work
Amani Saeed, Anil Pradhan, Garfield Dsouza, Ifẹ Grillo, Megha Harish, Sanah Ahsan
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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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Amani Saeed
Poet, United Kingdom
Amani Saeed is a writer who treads the line between roots and routes. She writes poetry, blog posts, films, and whatever else is needed to get the point across….
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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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