Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia lights a lamp during the inaugural ceremony of the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Preeti Shenoy and Ravinder Singh during the session 'Write India: Nurturing new talent' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Tridib Chatterjee in conversation with Koel Mallick, Abir Chatterjee and Sagnik Chatterjee during the session 'Why sleuths are a rage in Bengali films' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Mimi Chakraborty and Shobhaa De in conversation with Festival Director and Executive Editor of Times of India, Vinita Dawra Nangia during the session 'Is happiness the price you pay for success? at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Harsh Neotia presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Shirshendu Mukherjee at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Manoranjan Byapari in conversation with Supriya Newar during the session 'The voice of a chandal' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Sharbari Ahmed and Shobhaa De in conversation with Kishwar Desai during the session 'Are women authors neglected?' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Bratya Basu, Bani Basu and Sekhar Samaddar during the session 'Kolkata stage from Noti Binodini to Modern Times' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Vir Sanghvi and Papa CJ in a friendly banter during the session 'Game Changers: The Naked Truth' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Anand Neelakantan, Anuja Chandramouli and Mallar Chatterjee during the session 'The science behind mythology' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Diana Preston and Michael Preston in conversation with Manimugdha Sharma during the session 'Empire of the Moghul: Epic rise & fall of a dynasty' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Jhimli Pandey, Saikat Majumdar and Ruchira Gupta during the session 'Sex and the City' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Satyarth Nayak in conversation with Kalpana Sharma during the session 'Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Shashtipada Chattopadhyay, Sekhar Basu, Amar Mitra and Bani Basu during the session 'Din Bodol er Golpo' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Kishwar Desai, Dr. Tapati Sengupta and Rishabh Kothari during the session 'Inheritance of loss: Trauma lives on' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Vaibhav Purandare and Vikram Sampath during the session 'Savarkar: Hero or Anti-hero?' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Merete Pryds Helle, Milan Vohra and Dipankar Mukherjee during the session 'Importance of storytelling' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Nemat Sadat speaks during the session 'LGBTQIA: Coming Out and Coming-Of-Age' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Diana Preston, Michael Preston, Andrew Otis and Anuja Chandramouli during the session 'The outsider's view: Foreigners writing on India' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

Sudeep Chakravarti, Mukul Agarwal, Supriya Newar and Dipankar Mukherjee during the session 'Calcutta, Kolkata or Kalkatta' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.