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

Nilanjana Bhowmick

Author, India

Nilanjana Bhowmick is the author of Lies Our Mothers Told Us – a work of narrative non-fiction that is a scathing but hopeful commentary on the lives of Indian women told through the real life stories of women from across the country. She is an independent journalist whose articles have appeared in TIME, National Geographic, the New Internationalist Magazine, Washington Post, the Guardian, Business Insider, the Daily Beast and several others. She has contributed poems and short stories to international anthologies and literary magazines. She has won three international awards for her journalistic work on gender and development. She lives in New Delhi.

sessions

Book In Focus

  • 13th November
  • 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Ambi Parameswaran, Hannah Lalhlanpuii, Nilanjana Bhowmick, Paul Morland
Chair: Hrishi K

Celebrating Women : The Shashi Baliga Memorial Session – Double shift

  • 13th November
  • 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The price of being an Indian superwoman
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Bhowmick, Taran Khan
Chair: Gayatri Rangachari Shah

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