23 July Sessions

Note: All times are in Indian Standard Time (GMT + 5:30 )
23 July Thursday
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Music
Tritone
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Glass House Children’s Poetry
Trailblazers
12:30 PM – 01:00 PM

Inauguration & Keynote
Padma Vibhushan Sri Sri Ravishankar

01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Ambassador TP Sreenivasan, Ambassador A. N. D. Haksar & Ambassador Nirupama Rao
02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
The Walking Violinist
Aneesh Vidyashankar
03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Opening Ceremony & Keynote
Chandrashekar Kambar

03:30 PM – 04:05 PM

Singing in the Dark – Poets on Covid
(K. Satchidanandan, Nishi Chawla, George Szirtes, Amir Or, Elizabeth Kuruvilla [mod])

04:15 PM – 05:15 PM

(Live Q&A at the end via zoom)

Keki Daruwalla
Reading followed by Q&A

06:00 PM – 06:30 PM
Beethoven Variations: A Poet’s Journey through the Music and Life of Beethoven
(Ruth Padel and Karl Lutchmayer)
06:30 PM – 08:15 PM

(Join Live Q&A at the end of this session here  via BIC)

Reading John Keats in the Bicentenary of His 1820 Volume
(Annie Chandy Mathew, Nicholas Roe)
08:15 PM – 09:30 PM

(Live Q&A at the end via zoom)

Our Songs Came Through – Native Nations Poetry
(LeAnne Howe, Deborah Miranda, Tanaya Winder, Kimberly Blaeser, Tacey Atsitty, Roberta Hill, Cedar Sigo, Jennifer Foerster)
09:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Open Mic
(on instagram – Join here )