News & Media 2018
- How children learn ‘hate’ from their surroundingsThe four women agreed that children learn to hate from their surroundings.
- Why women and men see sex, love differentlyAs suggested in a freewheeling and fun session with the world’s leading body language and relationship expert couple, Barbara and Allan Pease.
- Eat local, give farmers their due, says Rujuta DiwekarThrow away your weighing scales and banish TV from bedrooms.
- Delhi chronicler rues how Capital treats its treasuresEvery corner of Old Delhi has treasures in terms of heritage.
- The tragedy of being a comic novelist In India“We shouldn’t think of films, series and novels as unfriendly mediums but rather focus on our skills of telling a good story,” says Sarnath Banerjee, the author of Corridor
- A writer reveals his trauma: Having put my fictional characters though hell, I had to go there myselfIn the ‘Nordic Noir’ session, on day one of the Times Litfest Delhi, Icelandic author Hallgrimur Helgason spoke of the trauma of rape, which he experienced as a student in Germany.
- India's spymasters argue for peace with PakistanDo we need a spy in today’s age? Is the spy’s life as glamorous as James Bond movies present it?
- In conflict zones, women get caught in the crossfireWomen need to play a greater role in conflict prevention in today’s world as only 2% of peace deals signed in India is done so by women interlocutors, said Radha Kumar, an academic and author
- How does one keep the passion alive in a relationship? Hear it from the romance writersLove, sex and the secret to keeping alive the passion in a relationship were the topics of conversation at the session titled ‘Romance Brigade: Luv, Shuv and all that Fuss’. Participating were three of India’s most esteemed romance authors Ravinder Singh, Preeti Shenoy and Andaleeb Wajid.
- ‘Delhi is not about Lutyens’, it’s much more’The revolt of 1857 was not just a turning point in the history of India, but it also shaped the city of Delhi, said Swapna Liddle, author of ‘Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Delhi’.
- Crimefighters who write on crimeClare Mackintosh and Amit Lodha, authors who were cops, speak on how their careers.
- His thrillers’ secret code: A boring lifeThe Mumbai-based author of page-turners proved to be engaging company as he opened up about the processes of writing unputdownable books.
- "This is the second worst category of air" said Navroz K Dubash on air qualityAshwin Sanghi, Naina Lal Kidwai, Navroz K Dubash, Arunabha Ghosh, Rajeev Mathur and Saurav Jha spoke on the pollution problem and possible soutions for it.
- What happens when the ‘abrasive’ Thapar is interviewed by an ‘amiable’ Tharoor?Karan Thapar is known for his abrasive style of interviewing. Shashi Tharoor asked him about prodding cricketer Kapil Dev to keep him crying through a show. “At what point does the heartless journalist looking for TRPs overtake your humanity?” To which Thapar said, “It could be inexcusable, heartless, but I do think back to it with a smile that I made Kapil cry."
- #MeToo in India: Empowerment or an imitation of West?“Women get nothing when they come out against perpetrators of sexual violence. They are, in fact, punished, stigmatised and slandered if they raise their voices against powerful men,” said journalist and author Barkha Dutt as she discussed the MeToo movement, which has taken the Indian media and entertainment industry by storm in the last few months.
- Bose was seated beside 2 fuel cans, couldn’t have survived plane crash, says grandnephew Ashis RayAuthor and journalist Ashis Ray sought to put to rest speculation around Subhash Chandra Bose’s plane crash in 1945 in Taiwan, in his session at the Times Litfest on Saturday.
- Why women and men see sex, love differently In a freewheeling and fun session with the world’s leading body language and relationship expert couple, Barbara and Allan Pease, we learn about the differences between men and women.
- His thrillers’ secret code: A boring life!Ashwin Sanghi is not currently sniffing around for conspiracy theories in Delhi. He is, in fact, working on a novel set in the country’s south.
- Let’s try to converse, disagree without being disagreeable: Pranab MukherjeeMukherjee lit the “lamp of knowledge”and gave an opening statement to inaugurate the Litfest.
- A physical book is an extension of your persona: Ravinder SinghThe charm of the physical books will never fade. The smell, the pale pages and the dry rose petals cannot be ever overshadowed by the digital versions.