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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

BCCL | Last updated on - Dec 9, 2019, 15:16 IST
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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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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Harsh Neotia presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Shirshendu Mukherjee at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.

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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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 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.
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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.

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Rishabh Kothari speaks during the session 'Meditation: The heartfulness way' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Vir Sanghvi and Pushpesh Pant discuss the changing culinary landscape during the session 'Kolkata's tryst with taste' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Vishwas Patil in conversation with Gopal Lahiri during the session 'Interview: Bose and the revolution for freedom' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Usha Uthup, Vikas Kumar Jha and Milan Vohra during the session 'Usha Uthup: Life of the pop star' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Preeti Shenoy and Ravinder Singh in conversation with Saikat Majumdar during the session 'Can books help change lives?' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Anjana Basu, Merete Pryds Helle and Jashodhara during the session 'YA literature: How the fables have turned' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Subodh Sarkar, Angshuman Kar, Nibedita Acharjee and Ayan Bandyopadhyay during the session 'Bangla Kabita Chirantan' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Narayan Debnath, Jogen Chowdhury, Shirshendu Mukherjee and Harsh Neotia Mukherjee during the inaugural session of the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Usha Uthup, Dr. Arpita Ray Chowdhury and Dr. Plaban Mukherjee during the session 'Donate an organ, save a life' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Nemat Sadat and Sudarshan Chakravorty in conversation with Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee during the session 'Beyond sexual identities' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

V S Ramachandran, Rajesh Kumble Nayak and S V Raman during the session 'Chandrayan Diaries: Mission to the Moon' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Mani Shankar Mukherjee in conversation with Kalyan Moitra during the session 'Lekhok kise Bhoe Pae' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Sharbari Ahmed, Satyarth Nayak, Anand Neelakantan and Sharmistha Gooptu during the session 'Great adaptations: Caught in the wide web' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Times Litfest Kolkata 2019

Pushpesh Pant and Prof. Arun Bandyopadhyay during the session 'Gandhi@150: The Relevance of Satyagraha' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Jogen Chowdhury presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to Narayan Debnath at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Rajdeep Sardesai in conversation with Vaibhav Purandare during the session 'India after 2019: A country in transition' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.
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Shruti Garodia speaks during the session 'Immersive experience: Walking through the courts of Akbar and Vijayanagar' at the Times Litfest Kolkata 2019 held in Kolkata on December 8, 2019.

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