Schedule

2 November 2012

4.00- 4.30: Inauguration

By Chandrasekhar Kambar, Ratan Thiyam

4. 30 – 5.00:  Award Ceremony

5.00 – 6.00: Opening Session: Purani Boli Naya Daur: Boli is Back!

Speakers: Chandrasekhar Kambar, Ratan Thiyam, Kashinath Singh, Gillian Wright, Gurvinder Singh, Neelesh Mishra
Moderator: Alok Rai

6.00 – 7.00: Opening Reading: Had Anhad

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Udaya Narayana Singh, Mamang Dai, Arun Kamal, Arjun Deo Charan, Narender Singh Negi

7.15 – 8.15: Evening Performance

Ugana re: Presentation of Maithili poet Vidyapati’s compositions by Kathak Guru Shovana Narayan

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3 Nov 2012

10.00-11.00: Manipuri: The Idea of Nation

Speakers: Yumlembam Ibomcha, Bijoykumar Tayenjam
Moderator: Dr. Dhanabir Laishram

(Sponsored by National Book Trust)

11.15-12.15: Interaction:Mapping Cities

Kashinath Singh, Laxman Gaikwad, Om Thanvi

12.30-1.30 Maithili: Love’s Own Language

Speakers: Udaya Narayana Singh, Deoshankar Naveen, Gajendra Thakur
Moderator: Arvind Das

2.30 -3.30 Kannada: Tales of Modernities: Small Spaces, Big Ideas

Speakers: Chandrasekhar Kambar, Gopalkrishna Pai, Banu Mushtaq
Moderator: Mamta Sagar

(Sponsored by National Book Trust)

3.45-4.15 Interaction: Ghazal Gaon

Munawwar Rana

4.30-5.30 English: Where’s My Reader?

Speakers: Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Biman Nath, Madhuri Banerjee
Moderator: Jai Arjun Singh

5.45-6.30: Future of Indian Languages Publishing in Digital Era

Speakers: Akshay Pathak, Nikhil Chandra, Shiva Kumar, Kinshu Sinha
Moderator: Rahul Dixit

7.00-8.30 Evening Performance: Kashmiri Sufiyana Kalam

Gulzar Ahmad Ganie and party
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4 November 2012

10.00-11.00 Oriya: Reclaiming Language, Space and Body: Women Writing

Speakers: Pratibha Ray, Sarojini Sahoo, Yashodhara Mishra, Aparna Mohanty
Moderator: Paramita Satpathy

11.15- 12.15: Folk Performance: Pad Dangal

Dhavale, Jagan and others
Introduction:  Prabhat

12.30-1.30 Marathi: The City of No Outsiders Mumbai

Speakers: Laxman Gaikwad, Hemant Divate, Neeraja
Moderator: Prakash Bhatambrekar

(Sponsored by National Book Trust)

2.30-3.30 Kashmiri: My Reality, My Language

Speakers: Shahnaz Rasheed, Gulshan Badrani, Elyas Azad
Moderator: Nisar Azam

(Sponsored by National Book Trust)

14 3.45-4.15: Interaction

Girish Kasaravali, Banu Mushtaq, Mamta Sagar

4.30-5.30: Hindi: Culture and Power: A Tale of Seven Cities (Allahabad, Benares, Bhopal, Delhi, Kolkata, Lahore, Patna)

Speakers: Kashinath Singh, Ashok Vajpeyi, Arun Kamal, Alka Saraogi
Moderator: Neelabh

5.45- 6.30: Mind Your Language| Zubaan Sambhal Ke

Speakers: Sneha Khanwalkar, Ratan Rajpoot, Simran Kohli
Moderator: Vineet Kumar

6.30 – 7.00: Award Ceremnoy and Closing

Speakers: K. Satchidanandan, Raj Liberhan, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Satyanand Nirupam, Giriraj Kiradoo

7.15 – 8.30: Evening Performance

Solo by Rabbi Shergill