Schedule & Sessions

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All these sessions are also on our Facebook / / Twitter pages. We go live on Instagram with Performance Poetry at 9.30 every night.

A virtual bookstore of books written by poets & speakers of the festival is also available here

Note: All times are in Indian Standard Time (GMT + 5:30 )
26  July Sunday
09:45 AM – 10:00 AM

Sufi Music by Khanak Joshi

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Ancient market of the Future – Subcontinental Poetry
(Kuladhar Saikia, Mamang Dei, Kamal Kumar Tanti)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Konkani Poetry Across a Fractured Geography (Damodar Mauzo)

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Tulu Poetry – Oral and Literary (Viveka Rai)

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Beary Poetry – Melthiri (Candle) (Umar Teekay)

12:30 AM – 01:15 PM

Kodava Folksongs in the Pattole Palame (Chinnappa Boverianda and Nanjamma)

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM

(Live via zoom)

In Search of Strange Flowers – Contemporary Indian English Poetry
(Sonnet Mondal, Rochelle Potkar [moderator], Amit Ranjan, Pervin Saket)
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Music
Sangeeta Ravindranath

01:30 PM – 02:45 PM

Diwan-e-raaz – Poetry of the Punjab
(Amarjit Chandan, Mazhar Tirmazi, Nirupama Dutt, Chiranjeev Singh [mod])
03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Wounded Republic – Dalit Voices
(MB Manoj, Ramesh Karthick Nayak, Yazhan Athi, Chandramohan S [mod])
04:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Theatre of Kindness – Spoken Word from the World
(Elaine Foster, Illya Sumanto, Manal Younus, Angela Gegg, Shantanu Anand, Mariam Riaz Paracha, Sadia Khatri, Nandini Varma)

06:00 PM – 07:30 PM

(Join Live Q&A at 07:00 PM  here  via BIC)

Beethoven Variations: A Poet’s Journey through the Music and Life of Beethoven
(Ruth Padel and Karl Lutchmayer,
Guest Artists: Nina Kanter, David Waterman and the Endellion String Quartet)

07:30 PM – 08:45 PM

(Live via zoom)

Award Ceremony

09:00 PM – 09:35 PM

Closing Ceremony

09:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Dr Aneesh Vidyashankar – Live

* Some panel titles inspired by works of Agha Shahid Ali.