The Tenth Mumbai International Literary Festival
Thursday, November 14th to Sunday, November 17th 2019
April 17, 2019
Welcome to another exciting Literature Live! Evening when we launch a really topical book by the country’s leading psephologists Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala. Aptly titled THE VERDICT, it’s their attempt to decode India’s elections. I will be in conversation with them at Crossword Book Store at Kemp’s Corner on Wednesday, April 24 at 6.30 PM. […]
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April 4, 2019
Literature Live! is happy to announce the launch of Rajat Gupta`s book Mind Without Fear on Wednesday, April 10 at 6.30 PM at the Walchand Hirachand Hall, Indian Merchants’ Chamber building (Next to Churchgate station). Without doubt, Rajat Gupta was one of the biggest stars in the world of finance and management. He was the first foreign-born Managing Director of McKinsey & Co […]
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March 16, 2019
The economist we are all proud of, Dr Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, now Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is back with a book. And Literature Live! with Harper Collins Publishers, in association with KPMG in India, is happy to announce its launch on Wednesday, […]
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February 26, 2019
Literature Live! is pleased to invite you to a special Literature Live! Evening when we will launch P Chidambaram`s book Undaunted. On Monday, March 4 at NCPA`s Experimental Theatre at 6.30 PM. In conversation with him, along with me, will be Sajjid Chinoy, Chief India Economist at J P Morgan and Menaka Doshi, Managing […]
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February 12, 2019
Literature Live! is happy to announce the launch of India Unmade by Yashwant Sinha, former Finance Minister and External Affair Minister, and now a trenchant critic of the BJP government. He will be in conversation with Sidharth Bhatia, Founding Editor of The Wire. With election fever in the air, we can expect fireworks during […]
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January 21, 2019
Ashok Alexander`s has been an incredible journey. After qualifying from St Stephen`s, Delhi School of Economics and IIM Ahmedabad, he joined McKinsey in New York in 1986. Later, he was part of a small group that moved to India to establish its highly successful India practice. His life took an unusual turn when the Bill & Melinda Gates […]
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January 8, 2019
Close on the heels of our evening on January 17, we have something completely different three days later: from the creativity of the novel to the creativity of science. The first invitation featuring Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is already with you. To deliver the science talk, we are proud to present the very eminent Nobel Laureate Sir Venki […]
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January 1, 2019
We start the new year with a bang. Our first evening of 2019 features Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the brilliant Indian-origin writer based in the United States. This is her very first event in Bombay. She will be in conversation with Ashwin Sanghi, best-selling author of The Rozabal Line, Chanakya`s Chant and The Krishna Key. Chitra`s new book is The Forest of Enchantments […]
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September 17, 2018
We are celebrating the success of Ramachandra Guha`s latest book, Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World. TheGuardian called Guha ‘Gandhi`s finest biographer’. He is that for sure, but he is also a wonderful chronicler of post-Independence history, with books that are scholarly, yet eminently readable. He will be in conversation with Naresh Fernandes, Founding […]
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August 18, 2018
Who doesn`t want to know about The Arts of Seduction? That`s the title of the book Literature Live! will launch at NCPA`s Experimental Theatre on Wednesday, August 22 at 6.30 PM. The author is London based Seema Anand. She is a story-teller, a TED speaker and lectures extensively on the Kamasutra. No wonder she […]
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