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
Pravin Sawhney is author of four books: The Defence Makeover: Ten Myths That Shape India’s Image; Operation Parakram: The War Unfinished; Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power (co-authored with Ghazala Wahab); and The Last War: How AI Will Shape India’s Final Showdown With China in 2022. He has been the editor and publisher of FORCE newsmagazine since 2003. He was the South Asia correspondent for Jane’s International Defence Review. He was commissioned officer in the Indian Army (artillery) for 14 years after which he took early retirement to pursue journalism
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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
Battlefronts
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13th November
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Launch of Pravin Sawhney’s The Last War, followed by a discussion on the testy relationship between India and China
Manoj Joshi, Pravin Sawhney
Chair: Probal DasGupta
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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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