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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

BCCL | Last updated on - Dec 3, 2019, 12:57 IST
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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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

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)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Jerry Pinto, Merete Pryds Helle, Amitabha Bagchi and Nemat Sadat in conversation with Karthika VK during the session ‘The journey of the novel’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Neeraj Kumar, Sushant Singh, Kulpreet Yadav and Ravi Subramanian in conversation with Milee Ashwarya during the session ‘Real Crime: When life is stranger than fiction’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Neeraj Paul)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Manoranjan Byapari in conversation with Arunava Sinha during the session ‘The voice of a chandal’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Andrew Otis during the session ‘How literature captured history’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Tarun Rawat)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Rana Safvi, Swapna Liddle and Feisal Alkazi in conversation with Manimugdha Sharma during the session ‘Shahjahanabad: The imperial city of Shah Jahan’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Madhavi Menon and Shreya Sen Handley during the session ‘Sex, desire and the writer's role’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Neeraj Paul)
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Susmita Mukherjee, Sharmistha Gooptu and Atima Mankotia in conversation with Harshali Singh during the session ‘Women Today: The stories we become’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Neeraj Kumar during the session ‘Do the best stories happen in real life?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Neeraj Paul)
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Vish Dhamija, Bilal Siddiqi and Mahendra Jakhar in conversation with Kulpreet Yadav during the session ‘Thrill of the kill’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Manimugdha Sharma, Parvati Sharma and Sutapa Basu during the session ‘Altering narratives: Is historical fiction a threat to history?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Times Litfest Delhi 2019: Day 2

Yashwant Sinha and Dr. Karan Singh with Pavan K. Varma during the session ‘The difficult art of writing political autobiographies’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Shanta Gokhale in conversation with Prabha Chandran during the session ‘Life told through the body’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Mahendra Jakhar during the session ‘Does the genre really matter?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Tarun Rawat)
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Jerry Pinto in conversation with Kumaar Bagrodia during the session ‘Mind matter: Can the brain be trained?’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Vivek Shanbhag, Unni R. and Vishwas Patil in conversation with Saba Mahmood Bashir during the session ‘Beyond language constraints’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Neeraj Paul)
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Javed Akhtar receives the Lifetime Achievement Award after an interactive session ‘Do you know you speak Urdu?’ with Akashdeep Ashok at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Mridula Garg, Mamta Kalia and Dr. Anamika in conversation with Sujata during the session ‘Mere Zamane Ka Kadwa aur Mushqil Sach’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Navroz K Dubash and Varun Sivaram in conversation with Siddharth Singh during the session ‘Fighting pollution: When breath becomes poison’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019.
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Sharbari Ahmed, Nemat Sadat, Sarita Mathur in conversation with Shreya Sen Handley during the session ‘Diaspora Dialogues: A world of our own’ at the Times Litfest Delhi 2019 held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on December 1, 2019. (Photo: Neeraj Paul)

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