The Tenth Mumbai International Literary Festival
Thursday, November 14th to Sunday, November 17th 2019
August 20, 2019
Literature Live! goes to the theatre! Those of you who attend the annual Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, will be aware of the Sultan Padamsee Awards which are presented during the festival to the best new play scripts. The award attracts entries from all over the world, entries notable not just for their quantity, but quality too. […]
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July 16, 2019
The essence of a democracy is that a range of political views from the Left to the Right can co-exist and engage in civilised discussion to understand each other’s viewpoints. Unfortunately, this is not the case in our country where a cacophony of voices drown out sensible debate. In this scenario, we don’t get […]
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July 1, 2019
The next Literature Live! Evening features the launch of a novel described by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen as “A book you must read.” The City and the Sea takes off from the night of a horrific rape in Delhi, leaving behind ‘the story that was’, to set out in search of ‘a story that could have been’ in […]
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June 26, 2019
The next Literature Live! Evening features the Yuva Sahitya Akademi winner Manu Pillai. His new book which will be launched at the event, has the intriguing title, The Courtesan, The Mahatma & The Italian Brahmin. What is it about? You have to come to G5A on Wednesday, June 26 at 6.30 PM to find out. For those of you who haven`t yet been […]
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June 3, 2019
Literature Live! will launch Amitav Ghosh‘s much anticipated new novel, Gun Island on Monday, June 17, at 6.30 pm at Royal Opera House. Gun Island has as diverse a cast of characters as you can imagine, from a Brooklyn–based dealer in rare books to a king cobra in Kolkata. This is a story about a world in which creatures and […]
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May 22, 2019
Now that our elections are drawing to a close, Literature Live! Evenings move away from poll-related books to something completely different. Andrew Whitehead, the former BBC India correspondent and BBC News presenter, has written a biography of Freda Houlston Bedi. Hers is a fascinating life: after marrying a handsome young Sikh in Oxford in 1933, this Englishwoman […]
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May 13, 2019
The next Literature Live! Evening launches a book which was 20 years in the making. Ruchir Sharma, New York Times best-selling author, followed elections across every major state of the country over the last two decades, his journeys adding up to a full lap around the earth! The resulting book, Democracy on the Road, takes […]
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May 5, 2019
The Election Commission has come in for a lot of flak recently for its spineless handling of incendiary and provocative speeches made by powerful politicians. It wasn’t always so: there was a time, starting from the first CEC, TN Seshan, when politicians feared the EC’s wrath if they stepped out of line. Why have things […]
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May 3, 2019
Have you heard of ‘Heartfulness’? Here`s your chance to know more about the concept when Literature Live! launches The Heartfulness Way by Kamlesh Patel and Joshua Pollock on Monday, May 6 at 6.30 PM at Crossword Bookstore, Kemp`s Corner. At the same event, we will also launch Designing Destiny by Daaji Kamlesh Patel. It`s an intriguing title because conventional wisdom says destiny is […]
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April 26, 2019
To celebrate the centenary of legendary poet and lyricist, Kaifi Azmi, we will be screening Sumantra Ghosal`s wonderful film Kaifinama: A Celebration of the Art and Times of Kaifi Azmi. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the film maker, Shabana Azmi and me. At NCPA`s Experimental Theatre on Tuesday, April 30 […]
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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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