Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Union Minister for Law & Justice and for Communications & Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurating the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Formal inauguration of Times Litfest Delhi 2019 by Jay Panda, Pinaki Misra, Amitabh Mattoo, Pavan K Verma, Kanwal Sibal and Salman Khurshid before the session ‘Article 370: Kashmir and its Future’ at Rajnigandha Hub, India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Union Minister for Law & Justice and for Communications & Information Technology and Chief Guest Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurating the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Unveiling of India's most coveted women author awards by AS Mehta, President and Director, J K Paper and Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia during the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Unveiling of India's most coveted women author awards by AS Mehta, President and Director, J K Paper and Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia during the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

After formal inauguration of Times Litfest 2019 by Jay Panda, Pinaki Misra, Amitabh Mattoo, Pavan K Verma, Kanwal Sibal and Salman Khurshid before the session 'Article 370: Kashmir and its Future' chaired by Rahul Shivshankar at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Saroj Bala in conversation with Sutapa Basu during the session ‘Ramayana retold with scientific evidence’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Audience during the session ‘Ramayana retold with scientific evidence’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Sutapa Basu in conversation with Saroj Bala during the session ‘Ramayana retold with scientific evidence’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Yamini Aiyar, D Shyam Babu and Chandrabhan Prasad during the session ‘Dalits as Entrepreneurs 2.0’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Swapan Dasgupta, Rajeev Gowda, Rajdeep Sardesai and Prafulla Ketkar during the session ‘Why India shifted rightwards: India after 2019’ chaired by Nalin Mehta at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Sister B K Shivani in conversation with Narayani Ganesh during the session ‘Soul-to-soul: That thing called Love’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Sister B K Shivani during the session ‘Soul-to-soul: That thing called Love’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Stephen Alter during the session 'YA literature: How the fables have turned' at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019. Jan Weitendorf, Deepa Agarwal and Nandini Sengupta also attended the session.

Gudrun Eva, Preeti Shenoy and Anuja Chandramouli in conversation with Tino De Sa during the session ‘Importance of Storytelling’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Ashwin Sanghi during the session ‘Science of mythology’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Manu Joseph during the session 'Yogi or Bhogi… What should a King be?' at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Avni Doshi, Shunali Shroff and Vivek Shanbhag during the session ‘Imperfect families: Breaking the silence’ chaired by Kanchana Banerjee at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

Harivansh during the session 'Icons of ideological politics in India' at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.