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Workshops

8 Nov 2025 | West Room 1 | 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

'SUBJECT' MATTERS
Writing someone else's story

Workshop by Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta

  • Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta shows how to build a narrative voice and empathy for a subject, in writing biographies.

    Workshop profile:

    • Writing for posterity

    • Biography as creative non-fiction

    • Basic elements of a biography

    • Developing a narrative voice

    • Overcoming challenges in this genre

    • Write a chapter on a ‘subject’

    • Read and share

  • Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is a  biographer, cultural researcher, and communications expert. As The Reading Coach, she is known for her storytelling. She also writes the weekly BookStrapping column on Storyboard18.

    As a biographer, she has written books on  actor Sanjeev Kumar,  educator Savitribai Phule, and  the  Maratha warrior Murarirao Ghorpade. Her recent work Win the Battle of Your Mind in the Age of Social Media: Scroll Less, Read More reflects her role as The Reading Coach, and her concerns regarding the loss of reading skills.

    • This workshop is open to participants aged 18 and above.

    • Entry for all workshops is limited and is on a first-come-first-serve basis.

    • Once the workshop registration reaches full capacity, the form will close.

    • An offline waitlist will be prepared at the venue from 10 a.m. onwards for the same-day workshop, subject to seat availability.

    • All registered participants must report at the workshop venue at least 30 minutes before the start of the workshop to confirm their seat, failing which their seat will be made available for the offline waitlist.

    • Waitlisted registrations must report at the workshop venue 20 minutes prior to the workshop start time. Depending on seat availability they will be accommodated.

    • All registrations will close 15 minutes before the start of the workshop.

    • Please inform us if you’ve registered but cannot attend.

    • For queries, please email us at registrations@litlive.in

    • The schedule and venue are subject to change.

    • Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest reserves the right to admission to all workshops.

The registration form for the workshop is now closed.


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