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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

BCCL | Last updated on - Dec 3, 2019, 13:23 IST
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Acclaimed writer and historian William Dalrymple during the session ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

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.
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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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Swapan Dasgupta and Prafulla Ketkar during the session ‘Why India shifted rightwards: India after 2019’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Gudrun Eva during the session ‘Importance of Storytelling’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Anand Neelakantan during the session ‘Science of mythology’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Vivek Shanbhag, Avni Doshi and Shunali Shroff 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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Pushpesh Pant, Dr Annamalai and Purushottam Agrawal during the session ‘Gandhi @ 150: The Father lives on’ chaired by Sanjiv Shankaran at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Perumal Murugan in conversation with R Sivapriya at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

William Dalrymple during the session ‘Forgotten Masters: Indian painting for the East India Company’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Salma Yusuf Husain, Pushpesh Pant and Romy Gill during the session ‘Zaika-e-Dilli’ chaired by Varud Gupta at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Celebrity Nutritionist Pooja Makhija during the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Madhu Gurung, Manjul Bajaj and Shreya Sen Handley during the session ‘Short Stories make a comeback’ chaired by Dipankar Mukherjee at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Hindol Sengupta, Nazia Yusuf Izzudin and Aparna Vaidik during the session ‘The challenge of being Indian’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Sudeep Sen and Victor Rodriguez Nunez during the session ‘World in verse: Poetry and translation’ chaired by Katherine Hedeen at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Navdeep Suri, Rakhshanda Jalil and Radhika Oberoi during the session ‘Jallianwala Bagh and after: The trauma lives on’ chaired by Aanchal Malhotra at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Madhu Gurung, Manjul Bajaj and Shreya Sen Handley during the session ‘Short Stories make a comeback’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Gulshan Grover and Mahima Chaudhry during the session ‘Beauty and the Bad Man’ chaired by Yasser Usman at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Alex Rutherford during the session 'Building an empire of words' at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Gudrun Eva M., Merete Pryds Helle and Maurice Fitzpatrick in conversation with Vasudha Chandna Gulati during the session ‘Global appeal of the written word’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Kavita Kane, Anuja Chandramouli and Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan during the session ‘Women in mythology: Redefining desire’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Jonathan Gil Harris and Jai Arjun Singh during the session ‘Masala Shakespeare: The bard’s continuing relevance’ chaired by Devapriya Roy at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Shubha Mudgal in conversation with Milan Vohra during the session ‘Looking for Ms. Sargam’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 1

Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Amruta Patil during the session ‘Female Rishis: The untold stories’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Kumar in conversation with Premanka Goswami during the session ‘Shiksha: Experiments with education’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Vish Dhamija in conversation with Ananth Padmanabhan during the session 'Book Launch: Rita Ferreira Series' at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Gen. V P Malik and Major DP Singh in conversation Rachna Bisht Rawat during the session ‘20 years of Kargil’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Nemat Sadat, Saba Dewan and Paro Anand during the session ‘Life beyond sexual identities’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.
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Navdeep Suri and Harpreet during ‘Khooni Vaisakhi: A musical tribute to Jallianwala Bagh martyrs’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on November 30, 2019.

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