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
Rukmini S. is an independent data journalist based in Chennai, India. Her work focuses on inequality, gender, caste and politics. Rukmini’s pandemic podcast ‘The Moving Curve’ won an Emergent Ventures Covid-19 India Prize in 2020. Her work on estimating COVID deaths in India won a 2022 Sigma Award, the global data journalism awards, and a Jury’s Special Mention (Investigative Reporting) at the Asian College of Journalism awards in 2022. Her first book, Whole Numbers & Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, was published in December 2021. Her second book is due in 2023.
sessions
Sense & Census
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09th November
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10:00 pm - 10:45 pm
How demographics underpin global transformations
Paul Morland in conversation with Rukmini S.
Do The Math
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12th November
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6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Using statistics to understand contemporary India
Rukmini S. in conversation with Sumana Ramanan
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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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