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Guwahati Literary Festival 2014 (GLF2014), DEC 27-29

28th Guwahati Book Fair and Literary Festival 2014 at the Assam Engineering Institute ground from Dec 25 - Jan 5.

The Literary Fest will be held on December 27-29. Few session will be available live on the Internet.

PUBLICATION BOARD, ASSAM
Guwahati Literary Festival 2014 (GLF2014), DEC 27-29
VENUE: NEDFi HOUSE, DISPUR, GUWAHATI

Event Photos

 

DAY ONE: 27/12/2014 (see report here: English/Assamese)

TIME

SESSIONS

PARALLEL SESSIONS

09-9:30am

Registration by participants

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09:30-10:00am

Literary Festival Launch

 

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10:00-11:30am

CONVERSATION: Shifting Sands of history: Remembering and forgetting

NAMITA GOKHALE   in conversation with Pushpesh Pant,  C P Surendran, Manorama Sarma, Pradip Sarma and Chandan kumar Sarma

PANEL: Short stories: My world, my writing

Moderator: PRASANTA RAJGURU

Panelists: Rabi Thapa, Arupa Patangia Kalita, Debabrata Das, Robin Sarma, Bipul Khataniar and  Prasanta Kumar Das

11:30-11:45

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

11:45-1:15pm

PANEL: Resisting stereotypes: Writing in Northeast

Moderator: ARUP KUMAR DUTTA

Panelists: Mamang Dai, Prabhat Bora, Janice Pariat and Dhruba  Hazarika,

PANEL: SHADOWS OF SELF: Being a poet in NE

Moderator: HARE  KRISHNA DEKA

Panelists: Robin Ngangom, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih,  Gyan Pujari,Sameer Tanti,Nilim Kumar, Anupama Basumatary and Tapati Baruah Kashyap

01:15-2:00pm

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

02-03:30pm

CONVERSATION: North East India: On the map, off the mind (Altering perceptions through history and literature)

SAMUDRA GUPTA KASHYAP in conversation with Mark Tully, Arnab Goswami, John Elliott and Rahul Bhattacharya

 

03:30-03:45pm

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

03:45-04:30pm

TALK: Remembering Indira Goswami

Chair: NAMITA GOKHALE

Speaker: MITRA PHUKAN

PANEL: Is there a North-East identity?

Moderator: UDDIPANA GOSWAMI

Panelists:  Mausami Kandali, Bibhash Choudhury, Janice Pariat, Kaushik Deka and Manjit Barua

04:30-05:30pm

PANEL: Myth, society and storytelling

Moderator: DR. BIRENDRA NATH DUTTA

Panelis­ts: Neelesh Misra, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Imran Hussain

PANEL: Emerging trends in fiction

Chair: JERRY PINTO

Co-Chair- Phanindra kumar Dev Choudhury

Panelists: Ankush Saikia, Janice Pariat, Anjali Joseph and Pankaj Govinda Medhi,

05:30-06:00pm                                                                                        Transportation to Book Fair venue

06:00-07:30pm                        TALK: Why the nation ought to know Chair: Dhruba Jyoti Borah Speaker: Arnab Goswami

DAY TWO: 28/12/2014 (full day report)

TIME

SESSIONS

PARALLEL SESSIONS

09:30-10:30am

Mark Tully in conversation with John Elliott

 The poetic gaze

Chair: HIRENDRA NATH DUTTA; Co-chair: ROBIN NGANGOM

Panel: Sananta Tanty ,Bipuljyoti Saikia, Anubhab Tulasi, Nilima Thakuria Haque, Rajib Baruah, Gangamohan Mili ,Bijoy Sankar Barman and Kamal Kumar  Tati

10:30-11:30am

CONVERSATION: Women’s narratives: The personal is political

Urvashi Butalia in conversation with Tilottoma Mishra,  Arupa Patangia Kalita and Nandana Dutta

11:30-11:45

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

11:45-1:15pm

CONVERSATION: Interrogating social reality through cartoons

EP UNNY in conversation with Salam Khan, Pankaj Thapa and Champak Borbora

CONVERSATION: Weaving memories: Writing, remembering

Nagen Saikia  in conversation with Apurba Sarma and Sabita Goswami

 

01:15-2pm

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

02-3:30pm

PANEL: Publishing the new dynamics: Seeking voices

Moderator: MANAS PRATIM SAIKIA

Panelists: C P Surendran, Preeti Gill, Bhaskar Dutta Baruah, Simar Puneet and Aditi Maheshwari,

PANEL: The world of short fiction

Moderator: ANURADHA SARMA PUJAREE

Panelists: Ratna Bharali Talukdar, Banti Senchoa, Anamika Bora , Sanjeev Pol Deka,Apu Varadwaj and Pranjal Sarma Basistha

03:30-03:45pm

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

03:45-04:30pm

TALK: Changing social and cultural trends in China with focus on writing

Chair: PUSPESH PANT

Speaker-Alka Acharya

TALK: Conversation of a poet with self: Ode to Amrita Pritam

Chair: ARUPA PATANGIA KALITA

Speaker: Nirupama Dutt

04:30-05:15pm

PANEL: Northeast: Beyond conflict

Moderator: ­SANJOY HAZARIKA

Panelists: Rahul Bhattacharya, Aruni Kashyap, Monalisa Changkija, Uddipana Goswami and Kaushik Deka

CONVERSATION: Playwrights at work

DULAL ROY  in conversation with Sukracharya Rabha, Saponjyoti Thakur and Pabitra Rabha

05:15-6:00pm                                                                                         Transportation to Book Fair venue

06:00-07:30pm                                             Live Storytelling and Song performance by Neelesh Misra at the Book Fair venue

 

 

DAY THREE: 29/12/2014 (Full day report)

TIME

SESSIONS

PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

PANEL: Northeast: From World War to wars within

Moderator: SAMUDRA GUPTA KASHYAP

Panelists: Easterine Kire, Govinda Prasad Sarma ,Siddhartha Sarma and Pradip Phanjoubam,

CONVERSATION: Tuning into literature: Music and literature

MITRA PHUKAN in conversation with Akhu, Rakhshanda Jalil and Loknath Goswami.

10:00-11:30am

11:30-11:45

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

11:45-01:15pm

PANEL: In the shadow of the gun: Literature from a conflict zone

Moderator: ARINDAM BORKATAKI

Panelists: Megan Kachari, Pranati Deka, Anurag Mahanta, Raktim Sarma, Arpan Saikia and Gobinda Basumatary.

PANEL: Not lost in translation: Building bridges

Moderator: ANTARA DEV SEN

Panelists: D N Bezbaruah ,Madan Sarma, Tribeni Goswami Mathur,  Bipul Deuri, Deep Saikia and Somak Ghoshal

01:15-2:00pm

Lunch break

 

02:00-3:30pm

CONVERSATION: Indigenous literatures: Writing roots

Tabu Ram Taid in conversation with  Bijoya Sawian and  Anil Boro .

PANEL: Wildlife and writing

Moderator: ARUP KUMAR DUTTA

Panelists: Soumyadeep Dutta, Anwaruddin Choudhury, Abhijit Rabha and Shiela Bora.

03:30-3:45pm

TEA BREAK

TEA BREAK

03:45-4:30pm

TALK: Progressive trends in Urdu literature

Chair: NAMITA GOKHALE

Talk: Rakhshanda Jalil

Poet NIRUPAMA DUTT in conversation with Balinder Dhanoa and others.

04:30-5:15pm

TALK: Art of the novel today

Chair: DHRUBAJYOTI BORA

Talk: JERRY PINTO

Film Show on Bhupen Hazarika and Jadav Payeng.

05:15-6:00pm                                                                                                     Transportation to Book Fair venue

06:00-7:30pm                                                                                       Kavita Seth’s concert: Soulful Sufi evening

 

 

DAY FOUR: 30/12/2014

06:00-7:30pm            IMPHAL TAKIES CONCERT (Book Fair Venue)

 

 

*Please note ,this programme is subject to last- minute changes.

For more pictures  and day by day reports (free), please contact us at editor@assamtimes.org

Browse through the Event photos here..

 

 

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