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20 Jan 12 (Day 1) Darbar Hall Mughal Tent Baithak Front Lawns Samwad
10AM-11AM       1. Inaugural Session & Keynote gaddress: 'Bhakti Poetry: The Living Legacy'

Purushottam gAgarwal and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.

 
11.15AM-12.15PM 'Tolstoy the Man'

Rosamund Bartlett, introduced gby Chiki Sarkar.

 		 'The gVision of the Gurus'

Madan Gopal Singh,
Navtej Sarna,
Navtej Singh Bharti,
moderatedg by Nirupama Dutt.

 		 'Green Thoughts in a gGreen Shade'

Anna Pavord, Jamaica Kincaid, moderatedg by Pradip Krishen.

 		 'From gInk Lake'

Michael Ondaatje in conversation gwith Amitava Kumar.

 		 Young Adults Workshop>gDemocracy Dialogues
12.30

1.30PM

 'Little Magazines: Voicesg from Below
 

Neerja Mattoo, Lalit Kumar, K. Satchidanandan, Giriraj Kiradoo, chaired by Antara Dev Sen.

 		 'The Disappointment of Obama'

David Remnick in conversationg with Samanth Subramanian.

 		 'Rajasthan Ek Khoj: The gSpirit of Rajasthan' Vijay Shankar Vyas, CP Deval, Hariram Meena, gRima Hooja. Moderated by Malashri Lal. 'Midnight's Child'

Salman Rushdie in conversation gwith Hari Kunzru

 		 Youngg Adults Workshop>Democracy Dialogues
1.30-2.30PM LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2.30-3.30PM "The Argumentative Indian ing Ancient India"

Gurcharan Das , Oscar Pujol, Alex Watson in conversation gwith Vijay Tankha.

 "do Diwane Sheher mein"

Pawan Sharma gand Gulzar introduced by Neeta Gupta

 'Whistling in the Dark: Writingg Gender'

Hoshang Merchant, R. Raj Rao conversation

 		 'The Arab Spring: A Winter’s View' Kamin Muhammadi Navdeep Suri, Karima Khalil, Raja Shehadeh, Hisham Matar, Max Rodenbeck ing conversation with Barkha Dutt "An Equal gWorld" OP Valmiki, Gogo Shymala in gconversation with S Ananad
3.45-4.45PM 'Ardh Satya : Kuch Ankahi Kahaaniya: Maowaadi Guerilleyg aur Bhartiya Ganrajya'

Rahul Pandita, Neelabh Ashk and Kavita Srivastava,
moderated gby Nirupama Dutt

 		 'Our Lady of gAlice Bhatti'

Mohammed Hanif ing conversation with Shoma Chaudhury

 		 'Writing the New Latin America'

Pola Oloixarac ing conversation with Chnadrahas Choudhury.

 		 "Stage by Stage"g

David hare and Girish Karnad in conversation

 

 'Designing gImaginary worlds'

Samit Basu

 
4.45-5.15pm TEA TIME TEA TIME TEA TIME Bookg Launch: Rajasthan Tourism TEAg TIME
5.15-6.15pm "Of Gods and Meng"

Hari Kunzu intruduced by Amitava Kumar

 'The Truth of Poetry and the Truth of Politics’ Kapil Sibbal in conversationg with Ashok Vajpeyi 'Katha Kosh: The Never - ending Story
Charan Singh Pathik, Laxmi Sharma, Deepti Naval, and Navtej Sarna, introduced by Neeta Gupta		 'Prison Diaries'

Iftikhar Gilani, Anjum Zamarud Habib, Sahil Maqbool, moderated by Siddharth Vardarajan.

 		 'The Prize: Awarding Literary Excellence or compounding hype ?'

K. Satchidanandan, Harrison Kelly, Jeet Thayil, Manhad Narula and Mukund Padmanabhan, chaired by Alastair Niven, introduced by Mita Kapur

 
6.30-7.30pm 'Exile on Main Street: Change and the City'

Readings Jeet Thayil, Ruchir Joshi

 		 'Imagining India, Interpreting it'

Tarun Tejpal in conversation with Sunil Khilnani.

 		      
Evening Programme:
1.   Gods Robots
2.   Jaipur Kawa Brass Band
3.   Rajisthan artists : Chugge Khan and Nathoo Lal Solanki
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