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Avid, An Essar Foundation Initiative , in association with Literature Live, presents an exchange of provocative ideas between Thomas Friedman & Shashi Tharoor . On Thursday, 3rd Novemember 2011 at the Tata Theatre, NCPA at 8.00pm.
A four-day extravaganza that will witness the coming together of some of India’s greatest literary minds. Anchored by noted Indian columnist Anil Dharker, Literature Live! will offer the culturally inclined a unique experience.
This literary festival will be a non-ticketed event that will offer free entry on a first-come, first-served basis. An offer that should not be refused. |
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| 3rd November, Thursday - View Events |
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11.00 am - Inauguration of the LitFest: Writers and panelists, Thomas Friedman, Shashi Tharoor and others
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12.15 pm - Book Release and Panel Discussion: Nihal Singh’s Ink In My Veins, Discreet Biography, Are Indian memoirs and autobiographies far too discreet? Nihal Singh and paneilists. Moderator: Anil Dharker
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2.45 pm - Panel Discussion: Literature and Revolution, Can literature set off revolutions? Shashi Tharoor and panelists
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4.00 pm - Panel Discussion: Coping with critics. Ian Jack, R.Sriram and panelists
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5.15 pm - Panel Discussion: Is the World Really Flat? Taking off from Friedman’s famous book, Thomas Friedman and panelists
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6.45 pm - Performance: The Last Mughal. Dalrymple's famous book as performance, William Dalrymple with three musicians
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8.00 pm - Discussion: In conversation, Thomas Friedman and Shashi Tharoor exchange provocative ideas
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| 4th November, Friday - View Events |
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11.00 am - Panel Discussion: Reader is a Woman. Does a writer write differently for a woman reader? Deborah Baker, David Godwin, David Davidar
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12.15 pm - Book Release and Panel Discussion: Mark Tully’s new book on India. Mark Tully, William Dalrymple, Farrukh Dhondy
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2.45 pm - Poetry: Being Human. A set of new poetry from contemporary British poets - Neil Astley, Arundhathi Subramaniam, and others
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4.00 pm - Panel Discussion: Burkha - The Male Gaze. Recent books like Baker’s deal with issues raised by the burkha. Deborah Baker, Farrukh Dhondy and panelists
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5.15 pm - Panel Discussion: Lost In Translation. Do books lose out when made into movies? Anupama Chopra and panelists
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6.45 pm - Book Release and Performance. Vikram Seth’s new book of Poetry and Libretto. Vikram Seth and Tenor
Tata Theatre
- 8.00 pm - Performance: Finkelstein’s
Castle (UK). A musical adventure story with a twist! Written and Composed by Pete Wyer and Mathew Sharp. Directed by Will Tuckett. Performed by Mathew Sharp
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| 5th November, Saturday - View Events |
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11.00 am - Panel Discussion: Gay Fiction It’s Not Weird Just Queer. Ian Jack, David Godwin and panelists
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12.15 pm - Book Release and Panel Discussion. David Davidar’s Ithaca and The Big Fat Book. In an age of diminishing attention spans, why are books so fat?
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2.45 pm - Book Release and Panel Discussion: C.Y. Gopinath’s new book on Corruption. C. Y. Gopinath, Chetan Bhagat and panelists
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4.00 pm - Panel Discussion: How to Get Published. David Godwin, Pramod Kapoor, David Davidar
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5.15 pm - Panel Discussion: Blasphemy and Freedom. How can freedom of speech be compatible with the concept of blasphemy? Mark Tully, Ian Jack, Farrukh Dhondy
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6.45 pm - Performance, Mona Monologue. Shakespeare in today’s setting. Written by Farrukh Dhondy, Performed by Lucid Arts (UK)
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- 8.00 pm - Whale Song (UK). Whale Song comprises six new poems woven with new music for the cello and bansuri. Written and performed by Matthew Sharp and Sameer Rao. Words by Sir Andrew Motion
Death’s Cabaret (UK). A cabaret concerto, it promises to be an unforgettable night. Written by Martin Riley. Composed by Stephen Deazley. Music at the Brewhouse. Performed by Matthew Sharp and the Sacconi Quartet Produced by Sharp Productions in collaboration with Music at the Brewhouse
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| 6th November, Sunday - View Events |
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11.00 am- Performance: Ramprahar (Marathi). Vijay Tendulkar’s powerful and insightful words brought to life. Directed by Sandesh Kulkarni, Produced by Samanvay, Pune
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12.15 pm - Panel Discussion: Gurus as Poets - Kabir, Rumi, Lal Deb. Tanslated by Ranjit Hoskote, Arvind Krishna, Mehrotra, Farrukh Dhondy. Moderator: Arundhati Subramaniam
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2.45 pm - Book Release and In conversation: Javed Akhtar’s Jalwa. Are film lyrics the new poetry? Can poetry and film lyrics live happily ever after? Javed Akhtar in conversation
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4.00 pm - Book Release and Panel Discussion: Ad Katha - A Century of Advertising. Release and reading of a book on the history of Indian advertising. Alyque Padamsee, Piyush Pandey, R. Gopalakrishnan, Rama Bijapurkar. Moderator: Gerson Da Cunha
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5.15 pm - Lecture: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, The Pulitzer Prize winning book by Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee
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6.45 pm - Panel Discussion: Frugal Innovation. Are our innovations better than the West’s, because of our very different approach? Dr. Siddharth Mukherjee, R. Gopalakrishnan and panelists
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- 8.00 pm - Performance: Spent (Canada). A two-person comedy about the financial meltdown, A Why Not Theatre and Theatre Run Production. Originally produced by theatre Smith-Gilmour
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Anil Dharker is a Mumbai-based writer and columnist. At various stages in his life, he has been an engineer on the academic staff of the University of Glasgow, a consultant in a Mumbai architectural firm, a film critic and censor, a promoter of New Cinema with the National Film Development Corporation and an editor successively, of Debonair, Mid-Day and Sunday Mid-Day, The Independent, and The Illustrated Weekly of India.
He is still remembered for his long stint as TV critic at The Sunday Observer, where readers, viewers, producers, Doordarshan directors-general and ministers found his column the one they loved to hate. These were reprinted in an anthology by HarperCollins titled Sorry Not Ready: Television in . Dharker has written a coffee-table book on Goa; a biography of industrialist OP Jindal, The Man Who Talked To Machines; and a book on Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, The Romance Of Salt. Recently, he brought out an anthology, Icons: The Men & Women Who Shaped Today's India. |
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| Shashi Tharoor |
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Author, United Nations peace-keeper, refugee worker, human rights activist, a former Minister of State for External Affairs, and now an elected member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, Dr Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience.
Dr Tharoor is also the award-winning author of 12 books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-ed pieces and book reviews in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek and The Times of India.
His three novels are the classic The Great Indian Novel, which is required reading in several courses on post-colonial literature; Riot and Show Business (1992) which received a front-page accolade in the New York Times Book Review and has since been made into a motion picture, Bollywood.
In January 1998, Dr Tharoor was named a ‘Global Leader of Tomorrow’ by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was named to India’s highest honour for overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, in 2004. In 2010 he was named Digital Person of the Year at the first-ever Indian Digital Media Awards.
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| Thomas Friedman |
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Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter and columnist. He is the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.
He is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the honorary title, Order of the British Empire (OBE).
In January 1995, Friedman took over the New York Times’ Foreign Affairs column. After a long stint in the Middle East in the years after 9/11, Friedman decided to do some reporting elsewhere, particularly India. In April 2005, he published his fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. The book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2005. It has sold more than four million copies in 37 languages.
After 9/11, Friedman began making documentaries for the New York Times–Discovery Channel joint venture. Over the next few years he co-produced, reported, and narrated six.
Friedman and his wife, Ann, reside in Bethesda, Maryland.
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| Event Details |
| When and Where ? |
Date: Thu, Nov 3
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: NCPA, Nariman Point |
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Date: Fri, Nov 4
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: NCPA, Nariman Point |
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Date: Sat, Nov 5
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: NCPA, Nariman Point |
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Date: Sun, Nov 6
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: NCPA, Nariman Point |
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| Fees: |
| Free (On Prior Registration Only) |
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| Olivia -9819731922 |
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| How to Register ? |
| Click here for Registration |
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| Phone: +91 - 9930134972 / 9930134990 |
| Email: register@avidedu.in |
| Website: www.avidedu.in, www.litlive.in |
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