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Bindhumalini Narayanswamy
Jayant Kaikini and Volga
Javed Akhtar in conversation with Rakhshanda Jalil
Dr. Neal Hall
Anand Thakore, Radha Thomas, Simon Napier-Bell and Vasundhara Das Moderator: Vikram Sampath
Prathibha Nandakumar
Akhil Katyal, Savita Bhargava and Sudhir Ranjan Singh Moderator: Dolly Singh
Vibha Rani
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Sampurna Chattarji, Tanya Mendonsa and Vivek Narayanan Moderator: Menka Shivdasani
CP Surendran
Bina Sarkar-Ellias, Nabina Das, Nitoo Das and Robin Ngangom Moderator: Maitreyee B. Chowdhury
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Raj Shekhar
Kutti Revathi
Varun Gandhi
Teejan Bai
riya Sarukkai Chabria, Poornima Kaushik
Hemant Divate, Jennifer Robertson, Nabina Das and Samantak Bhadra with K. Satchidanandan
Vivek Narayanan
Piyush Mishra
Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with Shobhana Kumar
Manohar Shetty
Bina Sarkar-Ellias, Hemant Divate, Sarabjeet Garcha and Vivek Narayanan Moderator: V K Karthika
Kamalinee Mukherjee in conversation with Dr. Neal Hall
Akhil Katyal, Priya Sarukkai, Rakhshanda Jalil and Sachin C Ketkar Moderator: Sampurna Chattarji
Mustansir Dalvi
Anand Thakore
Anjum Hasan with Usha Rao
K. Satchidanandan
Usha Rajagopalan and Geetha Srikrishnan
Menka Shivdasani
Teejan Bai
Curated by Mamta Sagar Featuring: Sudha Chidananda Gowda, M. S. Rudreswaraswamy, Tarini Shubhadayini, T. Yellappa, Shammi Sanjeev, Chand Pasha, Siddartha M. Poetry Performance: Mamta Sagar in collaboration with Vasu Dixit
Shabnam Virmani and Vipul Rikhi
Simon Napier-Bell
Description: Poetry should be looked at as a commercial art, not in artistic isolation. Learning about the music industry could be key to making money as a poet. This is a suggestion rather than a diktat. Hopefully the students and I will learn from each other as to whether I'm right or not.
Theme: Learning how the music business works. Song lyrics are poetry, and lyrics are the key to pop music success.
Karthika VK and Swati Chopra
Description: The publishing world can seem mysterious, especially if you write poetry. As poets, we ask ourselves, “Why do publishers accept some poems over others? Why were my poems turned down, while poems in a similar vein were published? What do publishers want?” This workshop will demystify what goes into the decision to publish poetry, editors’ likes and dislikes, markets, and other factors.
Sudhir Ranjan Singh
Description: The workshop aims at engaging aspiring young poets in discussions that help understand poetry better. How the art of writing poetry has evolved and what are the nuances and intricacies of writing good poetry. Hindi will be language of communication and focus area for the workshop.
Dr. Neal Hall
Description: In this interactive session Dr. Hall briefly shares his views on poetry and the poet and their intimate interplay with word forms. Reading from several poems as points of references for group discussions, Dr. Hall shares his thoughts on those man-made constructs he believes to be disarming and controlling tools oppressors utilize to oppress, or in the least, to maintain the status quo. Such tools include: faith, hope, ignorance, progress, religion, tradition, culture, formal education, anthems and flags.
Mrunalini Giri
Description: Found Poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and refraining them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
Aparna Raman and Prasanna Timothy
Description: In this workshop, children will be given a chorus line and word prompts to write a song. The kids will set their song to popular tunes with guitar accompaniment by Prasanna and sing them. This will help them appreciate the beauty of poetry through music and lyrics.
Age: 10+
Leon James
Description: In this workshop, children will get a chance to visualize and work in groups to play with poems. Kids will be divided into groups and work on individual poems using colours to convert them into paintings. The workshops intends to introduce poetry to children in a fun, visual way.
Age Between: 7+
Deepika Arwind
Description: The fun-filled group-based workshop will introduce children to the world of theatre through poetry. It will use poetry as point of departure to think about storytelling and image-making in theatre; how a poem (a piece of text) could potentially begin to form the basis for storytelling in theatre.
Age: 10+
Vikramjit Singh Rooprai
Description: This interactive workshop will be high on energy and participation and kids will be creating poems with Vikramjit to look at history in an entertaining way. Children will be introduced to Indian heritage and Indian history through fun exercises and poetry. As a group they would collectively come up with a poem and take back a piece of history in a poem. The workshop will be in a mixture of English and Hindi to appreciate the vastness of our beautiful country.
Age: 10+
Sakshi Singh
Description: Rain and Rhyme Wonder With words Weave A Web of Words A Wonderful World of Words The children will be introduced to poetry by playing with rhyming words thereby taking home, something they created by themselves weaving the magic of words.
Age: 6+
