Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Deepika Padukone, Boney Kapoor Satyarth Nayak, Gauri Shinde and Milee Ashwarya during launch of the book ‘Sridevi: The eternal screen Goddess’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Smriti Irani and Parameswaran Iyer in conversation with Navika Kumar during the session ‘Swachh Bharat: For a better India’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Tarun Rawat)

Ashwin Sanghi, Ravinder Singh, Anand Neelakantan in conversation with Ravi Subramanian during the session ‘Crafting a bestseller’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Ramesh Sharma and Maurice Fitzpatrick in conversation with Prabha Chand during the session ‘Making of political biopics’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Shobhaa De and Usha Uthup during the session ‘Breakthrough women: Shobhaa De and Usha Uthup’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Ishant)

The cover of Ashwin Sanghi’s book ‘The Vault of Vishnu’ was launched by Ravinder Singh, Anand Neelakantan and Ravi Subramanian during the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Chetan Bhagat in conversation with Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia during the session ‘Can words heal? Motivation, happiness, success’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Readings and recitations from Urdu poetry on Ram by Fouzia Dastango, Chinna Dua and Rashmi Agarwal, introduced and curated by Rakhshanda Jalil, Founder, Hindustani Awaz, during the session ‘Kahani Ram-i Hind Ki’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Tarun Rawat)

Shobhaa De and Usha Uthup during the launch of the book ‘Ullas ki Nao’ by Vikas Kumar Jha at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Ishant)

Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia’s book ‘Reimagine Your Life’ launched by Chetan Bhagat at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Shovana Narayan and Anita Dua in conversation with Kena Shree during the session ‘Yoga and dance: Nritya is yoga, yoga is nritya’ as at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Jaimini Bhagwati, Raghav Chandra and Rajiv Dogra in conversation with Atima Mankotia during the session ‘Bureaucrats as writers’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Ishant)

Usha Uthup and Vikas Kumar Jha during the session ‘Usha Uthup: Ullas ki Nao’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Alex Rutherford and Andrew Otis in conversation with Jonathan Gil Harris during the session ‘A passage to India: The outsider’s perspective’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Vaibhav Purandare and Vikram Sampath in conversation with Hindol Sengupta during the session ‘Savarkar: Hero or anti-hero?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Avni Doshi, Sarita Mathur and Kishwar Desai in conversation with Shubhrangshu Roy during the session ‘Writing as a spiritual journey’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Shobhaa De, Preeti Shenoy and Kavita Kane in conversation with Shaili Chopra during the session ‘Women authors: Forces at play’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia launches Vishwas Patil’s book ‘Panipat’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Bhaichand Patel, Raghav Chandra and Harshali Singh in conversation with Dipankar Mukherjee during the session ‘When the muse bites’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.

Milan Vohra during the session ‘Does romance writing need a tweak?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Tarun Rawat)