The Bengaluru Poetry Festival was conceptualized as a celebration of
all things poetry. From the classical to the modern, from hymn to haiku, from ballad to ode, poetry is what makes language dance. The rhyme, the rhythm, the words all merge into the perfect pitch, so we think and ache, and remain human.
AJ Thomas
Ajoy Bose
Akarsha
Alif and Mohammad Muneem
Alvin Pang
Amarendra Dhaneshwar
Amit Ranjan
Amruta Dongray
anamika
Ananda Lal
Andrea Jeremiah
Aneesh Vidyashankar
Anuja Chandramouli
Anupama Raju
Asang Ghosh
Bhuchung D Sonam
Biswamit Dwibedy
Chandrashekar Kambara
DC Rajappa
Dibyajyoti Sarma
Ga jagadeesh
Gili Haimovich
Jayant Parmar
Jayanta Mahapatra
Jogi
Kavish Seth
kavita seth
Mamang Dai
Mangalesh Dabral
Manisha Agarwal
Manjiri Indurkar
Manmohan Singh
Michael Creighton
Mona Zote
MR Kamala
Nandita Bose
Neela Bhagwat
Nilim Kumar
Nirupama Menon Rao
Paramita Satpathi
Perumal Murugan
Prashanth Shankaran
Prathibha Nandakumar
Rabia Kapoor
Rahul Soni
Ramachandra Guha
Rohinton Daruwala
S Diwakar
Sameer Tanti
Shabana Azmi
Shantanu Chaudhari
Sohini Basak
Sophia Naz
Sridala Swami
Srilata Krishnan
Sundeep Bhutoria
Sunita Raina
Ulrike Almut Sandig
Urvashi Bahuguna
Usha Uthup
Uttaran Das Gupta
Vasant Abaji Dahake
Vishal Bhardwaj
Yatindra Mishra
Lamp Lighting by Shabana Azmi
Aneesh Vidyashankar
Neela Bhagwat with Sumit Naik and Umakant Puranik
S. Diwakar, Jogi, M.R Kamala and Prathibha Nandakumar
Mamang Dai, Michael Creighton and Nirupama Menon Rao
DC Rajappa, GA Jagadeesh
Yatindra Mishra with Sundeep Bhutoria
Anand Lal, Bhuchung Sonam and Dibyajyoti Sarma
Kavish Seth?
Amruta Dongray and Nandita Bose with Prashant Sankaran
Alvin Pang, Gili Hamovich and Ulrike Almut Sandig
Ajoy Bose with Nirupama Menon Rao
Dr Chandrashekhara Kambara
AJ Thomas, Manmohan Singh, Paramita Satpathi, Sunita Raina and Vasant Abaji Dahake
Ulrike Almut Sandig with ALIF
Kavita Seth with Kavish Seth
Perumal Murugan
Biswamit Dwibedy, Manjiri Indurkar, Rabia Kapoor and Rahul Soni with Amit Ranjan
Amarendra Dhaneshwar with an introduction by Ramachandra Guha
Sohini Basak, Sridala Swami, Srilata Krishnan and Urvashi Bahuguna
Bhuchung Sonam, Mona Zote and Sophia Naz
Usha Uthup with Sundeep Bhutoria
Anamika, Asang Ghosh, Jayant Parmar, Manglesh Dabral with Yatindra Mishra
Anupama Raju, Dibyajyoti Sarma, Rohinton Daruwala and Uttaran Das Gupta
Manisha Agarwal
Jayanta Mahapatra
Mamang Dai, Mona Zote, Nilim Kumar and Sameer Tanti
Akarsha Kamala
Vishal Bhardwaj with Shantanu Chaudhari
Language: (Bilingual) English and Hindi
Duration: 60 mins
Ticket Price: Rs.500
Facilitator: Anamika
Language: (Bilingual) English and Hindi
Duration: 60 mins
Ticket Price: Rs.500
Facilitator: Sourav Roy
Language: English
Duration: 90 mins
Ticket Price: Rs.500
Facilitator: Michael Creighton
Age: 5+
Entry: Free
Age between: 8-13 years
Entry: Free
Age: 5+
Entry: Free