Kovalam Literary Festival 2011 at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 29th September 2011

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10:30 am - 9:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Multipurpose Hall & Conference Block, Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Details : Kovalam Literary Festival 2011.
Authors who will be present include Fatima Bhutto; Mohammed Hanif who will read from his new book Our lady of Alice Bhatti; Mirza Wahid, London based Kashmiri expat writer who will read from his new book Kashmir The Collaborator; Shehan Karunatileka, Sri Lankan author of the acclaimed cricket novel, Chinaman; Amit Chaudhury; release of Anita Nair’s new anthology of poems Malabar Mind; Suresh Menon and Bishen Singh Bedi will talk about the new biography of Bishen Singh Bedi (Penguin); Palash Mehrotra; Arvind Mehrotra who talk on his new work on Kabir’s poems; Ashwini Singh, author of Chanakya’s Chant; Rahul Bhattacharya; and many others.
Schedule : 
10.30 am Anuradha Roy reads The Folded Earth. Followed by QA
11.30 to 1.30 Presenting short story writer Savyon Liebrecht, and playwright Prof Motti Lerner from Israel
Post Lunch session :
2.30 pm Arvind Mehrotra reads from his translation of Kabir’s poems Songs of Kabir followed by QA. In session with Prof Sanjay Srivastava
4.00 pm Mohammed Hanif reads from Our lady of Alice Bhatti. In session with Manu Joseph
5.00 pm Jug Suraiya on his new book, JS and the Times of My Life
7.00 to 8.30 Three book launches:
1. Wildlife Trust of India book by Ashok Kumar on tigers of Dudwa National Park
2. Anita Nair’s collection of poems Malabar Minds by Harper Collins
3. Suresh Menon’s biography Bishan. In session with Bishan Singh Bedi. Penguin India
8.30 to 9.30 Ska. Vengers Delhi’s hip-hop band in concert

Collaboration : Noctilucent

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Kovalam Literary Festival 2011 at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 29th September 2011 Kovalam Literary Festival 2011 at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 29th September 2011 Reviewed by DelhiEvents on Thursday, September 29, 2011 Rating: 5

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