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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE Panels at DMKM Auditorium: 04:10:2014 Session: Plenary: 1000-1045 Thomas Keneally speaks about his work and about writing in Australia; Pundalik Naik on how alive is Konkani literature in Goa; Vishnu Surya Wagh on regional literature and importance of the languages. 1045-1100 Tea. 1100-1200: Raw nerve: In a flat world, the problems of practicing creative skills: All languages representation – Father Gomes, Jose dos Santos on Goa as a metaphor for what is lost in Portuguese literary imagination; Miguel Syjico on Yearning for a dictator: The Philippines and the pitfalls of political disillusionment. Mridula Koshy on feminine sensibilities at work in literature. 1200-1300: Glowing ink: 50 years and still writing: Thomas Keneally in conversation with Steve McCarty 1300-1400: William Dalrymple presents Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan 1400-1500: Foreign witnesses, native cultures: Liam Fitzpatrick in conversation with Hartosh Bal and Sudeep Chakravarti. 1500-1600: Oracle: Six poets give their word in a world that lacks pause. Session moderated by CP Surendran; Louis de Berneirs, Manohar Shetty, Mamta Sagar, Meena Kandaswamy and Vishnu Wagh. 1600-1700: How expensive is free speech? Our panelists Radhika Jha, Sandesh Prabhudesai along with Amandeep Sandhu and Shweta Bajaj discuss their career in going against the grain. 1700-1800: The Solving of the Puzzle: Rahul Jayaram in conversation with crime thriller writers Kulpreet Yadav and Aroon Raman on the art of unraveling mysteries. 1800-1900: Other rooms, Other voices: Miguel Syjuco, Jose dos Santos, Romesh Gunasekara in conversation with Stephen McCarty. Panels at Black Box 04:10:2014 1100-1200: Memoirs - Fact or fiction: What is the impulse for memoir writing? To preserve? To offer a yardstick? Yashodara Lal, Sudeep Chakravarti and Hartosh Singh Bal on whether it is better to lay the truth bare or discover it. Session moderated by Shweta Bajaj. 1200-1300: “Play With Me” Ananth Padmanabhan’s book launch by William Dalrymple followed by conversation on Sex and sensibility: When writing about sex, how much is too much? Do women and men write differently about sex? Ananth Padmanabhan, Margaret Mascrenhas discuss whether it is better to be coy or coital. In conversation with Vivek Tejuja. 1300-1400: Poetry and politics: Mamta Sagar moderates and speaks with Kutti Revathi, Tishani Doshi, Manohar Shetty and Vishnu Surya Wagh. 1400-1500: Fact, fiction, truth and other lies: Kishwar Desai, Sidharth Bhatia, Alexandre Moniz Barbosa dissect each word in conversation with Vivek Tejuja 1500-1600: Notes from the margin? KR Meera, Ramakant Khalap, Pundalik Naik in conversation with Bhushan Bhave 1600-1700: Lights, camera, writing! Vishnu Surya Wagh, CP Surendran, Arunachalam in conversation with Rahul Jayaram. 1700-1800: The Narrative Voice: how writers arrive at a fictional identity to suit their material. Prajwal Parajuly, Shehan Karunatilaka, Devdan Choudhury, Romesh Gunesekara in conversation with Sudeep Chakravarti. DAY 2 05:10:2014 Panels at DMKM Auditorium: 1000-1050: Your words, other mouths: Tom Keneally in a free-wheeling conversation on the adaptation of books to movies with Chandrahas Chowdhury. 1100-1150: Asian voices, foreign markets: Do Asian writers modulate themselves for western acceptance. Miguel Syjuco, Manu Joseph, Prajwal Parajulay moderated by CP Surendran. 1200-1300: The occupational hazard of being a poet Louis de Bernières and Tishani Doshi in conversation with Steve McCarty. 1300-1350: The Unsevered Connection: Goa and Portugal: Jose dos Santos and Alexandre Barbosa, Dilip Borkar, Savia Viegas in conversation with Frederick Noronha. 1400-1450: Conflict in media: The changing holding patterns and unbiased news: Liam Fitzpatrick, Sandesh Prabhudesai, Stephen McCarty in conversation with Shweta Bajaj 1500-1550: Battle-scarred words, the Literature of war: Jose dos Santos, Amandeep Sandhu, Nandita Haksar, Sudeep Chakravarti in conversation with Rahul Jayaram 1600-1650: Queen’s English with an accent: Literature from Australia: Thomas Keneally, Kirsty Murray with Chandrahas Chowdhury. 1700-1750: Nine Lives And Other Travels: William Dalrymple At Black Box: 05:10:2014 1000-1050: Thinking pad: Goa as a thinking pad for writers. Shweta Bajaj throws the dice at writers in and from Goa. Alexandre Moniz Barbosa, Nandita Haksar, Sudeep Chakravarti, Jugneeta Sudan, Savia Viegas. 1100-1150: Rare notes: Sidharth Bhatia festival book launch followed by a story of a rocking generation: Bhatia in conversation with Sudeep Chakravarti. Panel introduced by Armando Gonsalves and presented by Heritage Jazz Festival. 1200-1250: Death of the fairy child: The reading sensibility of the nine-year-old adult. Kirsty Murray in conversation with Savia Viegas 1300-1350: Breaking In: Nida Sayed, Kalyani Rao, Saskya Jain’s festival book launches and in conversation with Manjula Narayan. 1400-1450: Painting on the wall: Sudeep Sen and Bulbul Sharma in conversation with Liam Fitzpatrick on framed and speaking images. 1500-1550: Printer’s Devils: Copyrights, translations, contracts and innovation in publishing: What are these? Are we getting it right? Subhanjan Sarkar in discussion with Daniel Watts, Mamta Sagar, Leonard Fernandes and Frederick Noronha. 1600-1650: Terms of Engagement: Articulation of human struggles in conflict areas. Amandeep Sandhu, Sudeep Chakravarti , Nandita Haksar with Shweta Bajaj. 1700-1750: What have I got against you? Rahul Jayram tries to understand this question from Meena Kandaswamy, Bulbul Sharma, Mamta Sagar and Kutti Revathi, Ira Trivedi DAY 3 06:10:2014 Panels at DMKM Auditorium: 1000-1050: The Individual and the Institution: How to restore faith in political processes and parties: Romesh Gunesekara, Miguel Syjuco, Ramakant Khalap, Datta Naik, Hartosh Bal. Session moderated by Rahul Jayaram. 1100-1150: AUDIO: Readings. Tishani Doshi, CP Surendran, Prajwal Parajuly 1200-1250: Trust me, I have an iphone! Everybody is an expert because we can broadcast ourselves. Social media has effected the shifting of decision making into the hands of the lay public. Are experts therefore taking a back seat? Vivek Tejuja in conversation with Manjula Narayan, Sandesh Prabhudesai, Radhika Jha, Christophe Kloebe. 1300-1350: Romancing the poetry: CP Surendran, Mamta Sagar & Manohar Shetty. 1400-1450: Encrypted? Bhushan Bhave in discussion with Pundalik Naik and Dilip Borkar analyse the dilemma in Konkani script. 1500-1550: New news-New media’s upstarts. What does it take to start a successful new media venture. How is success defined? Fausto Costa, Radhika Jha, Dilip Borkar and Hartosh Singh Bal lead a discussion on who’s hogging the new media pie. What role does a modern editor/storyteller play? About how access to information changes the relationship between the media and the public. 1600-1650: India in Love: Ira Trivedi’s book launch by Romesh Gunesekara followed by a presentation by Ira Trivedi. 1700-1750: Parting Notes: Thomas Keneally, Kirsty Murray, Romesh Gunesekara, Pundalik Naik 06:10:2014 At Black Box: 1000-11.00: Image & Text: The unbroken relation: Margaret Mascarenhas discusses the relationship between image and text with Liam Fitzpatrick. 1100-1200: Documentary: Shweta Bajaj and Rohit Gandhi. 1200-1300: The portable Goan: Goan writing in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese language.s Alexandre Moniz Barbossa, Savia Veiges, Ramakant Khalap reflect on writing coming from Goa. 1300-1400: Food for thought: Can baking a pudding be great literature? Kornelia Santoro and Dinesh Patel on culinary writing journey. 1400-1500: To live, to fall, to err, to triumph, to create life out of life: Writers discuss their shaping influences. Shehan Karunatilaka, Romesh Gunesekara, Kirsty Murray, Manu Joseph in conversation with Subhanjan Sarkar 1500-1600: Marathi Language Panel 1600-1700: New Writing: Devdan Choudhury, Kalyani Rao, Dinesh Patel in conversation with Lipika Bhushan. 1700-1800: Fractals, book launch by Sudeep Sen. Readings and conversation with CP Surendran. Events at Publishing Corner: HCI - WRF Goa, 2014 Saturday, 4th Oct 2pm to 4pm Creative Writing Workshop by Margaret Mascarenhas 4pm Reading of Sorting Out Sid by Yashodhara Lal 5pm Reading of The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy Sunday, 5th Oct 11am to 1pm Social Media for Authors — a workshop by Jugal Mody 2pm Reading of Toke by Jugal Mody 3pm #harperpitch with Sathya Saran 4pm Reading of My Beautiful Shadow by Radhika Jha 5pm Reading of Sun Mere Bandhu by Sathya Saran Monday, 6th Oct 2pm to 4pm #harperpitch with Sathya Saran 4pm Reading of The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph 5pm Reading of Sun Mere Bandhu by Sathya Saran