| Date | Time | Venue | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Time | Venue | Topic | Speakers |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Palace Hall | The future of travel writing in the world of virtual tours: The challenges ahead. | MP Veerendra Kumar, William Dalrymple, Santhosh George Kulangara, Shireen Quadree |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 11.00 | Festival Venue | "Is feminism really different from patriarchy in its dealings with power today?" | Ritu Menon, Ruchira Gupta, Meena T Pillai |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Palace Hall | Keynote Speech: The future of the written Word in a world without Revolution | Andrei Kurkov |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "വായനയാല്‍ തിരുത്തപ്പെടുന്ന എഴുത്ത്" സമകാലിക മലയാള സാഹിത്യത്തെ സാധുവും അസാധുവുമാക്കുന്ന വായനക്കാരുടെ ഇടപെടലുകള്‍ | Santhosh Etchikkanam, Sarah Joseph, Lasar Shine, N E Sudheer |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Under The Tree | Slam poetry | Bigoa Chuol, Adithi Angiras, Girish Puliyoor |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Bamboo grove | Poetry Chain | K Jayakumar, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Meera Nair, Lakshmi Priya |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 12.00 | Festival Venue | No Country For Untouchables | Sujatha Gidla, Unni Balakrishnan |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Palace Hall | മുഖാമുഖം with T. Padmanabhan | T Padmanabhan, M P Surendran, 20 SHORTLISTED SHORT STORY WINNERS |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "The great disposession" Indian tribal identity and their unacknolwedged war | K P Sasi, Saran K Limbale, Ruchira Gupta |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Under The Tree | മലയാള കവിത പാരായണം | Anitha Thampy, Satchidanandan, Anwar Ali |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Bamboo grove | The 'in-between' novel | Jaishree Misra, Suneetha Balakrishnan |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Palace Hall | "Kerala renaissance" The contribution of Travancore royalty | Manu S Pillai, Dr Deepti Murali |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Festival Venue | "Are prize-winning novels overrated?" What goes into a booker novel? | V K Karthika, Ayesha Harunna Attah, Eric Akoto |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Balabhavan Hall | ഇതിഹാസങ്ങള്‍ കാലികമായി വായിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ | Sunil P Ilayidom |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 02 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Mandapam | Book Signing | T.Padmanabhan, M.P.Veerendra Kumar |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Palace Hall | "The perils of probe" Troubles journalists and writers face for their investigations | Josy Joseph, Vinod K Jose, KP Sasi, P.I Rajeev |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Festival Venue | "എഴുത്തിലേക്ക് കയറിവരുന്ന അവര്‍ണം" എഴുത്തിന്റെ വർണം: കഥയിലും കവിതയിലും നോവലിലും അവര്‍ണ പ്രമേയങ്ങള്‍ ഭാഷയും സ്വത്വവും വീണ്ടെടുക്കുന്നു | Narayan, S Joseph, V M Girija, G Usha Kumari |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Balabhavan Hall | How scientific is Ayurveda? | Dr. G Gopakumar, Dr. TS Jayan, Dr. V Ramankutty |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Under The Tree | കവിത: ബാലചന്ദ്ന്‍ ചുള്ളിക്കാട്‌ | Balachandran Chullikad |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Palace Hall | INAUGURATION | |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Festival Venue | INAUGURATION | |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Festival Venue | The cities in our head: Mumbai, Kolkata, New York, London and Delhi as literary characters. A discussion | Oksana Zebuzhko, Ashok Ferrey, Anil Dharker |
| 02 Feb 2018 | 19:00 | Nishagandhi | Entertainment-Raghu Dixit project | |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Palace Hall | "മലയാളിയുടെ ആന" കൊടും സ്നേഹം, കൊടും ദ്രോഹം BOOK LAUNCH - Anita Nair | Anita Nair, N A Nazeer, Dr. T S Rajeev |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Festival Venue | Why I am a Hindu? | Dr Shashi Tharoor, Mihir Bose |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "മലയാളി, ഉപദേശീയതയുടെ പുതിയ എഴുത്തുകാരന്‍" ദേശീയത ഹിംസാത്മക ദേശീയതയായി പരിണമിക്കുന്ന കാലത്ത് മലയാളം പോലുള്ള ഉപദേശീയതകളുടെ പ്രാതിനിധ്യം എഴുത്തുകാരെ എങ്ങനെ ബാധിക്കുന്നു? | Satchidanandan, T T Sreekumar, P P Ramachandran, P N Gopeekrishnan, Indu Menon |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Under The Tree | Storytelling | Monicah Wanjiru |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Bamboo grove | Fiction reading | Felicia Yap, Oksana Zabuzhko, Bernice Chauly |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Palace Hall | "Cartoon in the time of killer egos" | E P Unny, Keshav, Sujith Kumar, Bonny Thomas |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Festival Venue | Mending walls or breaking walls? Is India's diplomacy with neighbours a failure? | T C A Raghavan,T P Sreenivasan, Ullekh NP |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "Critical mass" The English speaking population of India is second only to America. Yet publishers find the numbers hard to convert into consumers. | Ritu Menon, Sudeep Sen |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Under The Tree | മലയാള കവിത പാരായണം | P P Ramachandran, S Joseph, V G Thampi |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Bamboo grove | Fiction reading | Ayesha Harruna Attah, Andrei Kurkov, CP Surendran, Jaishree Misra |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Palace Hall | Are the glorious days of sports writing over in this digital era? | Ayaz Memon, Dileep Premachandran, M P Surendran |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Festival Venue | "വിമര്‍ശകര്‍ ഹാജരുണ്ടോ? " അനിഷ്ടങ്ങള്‍ കുറ്റകൃത്യമായി മാറുന്ന അസഹിഷ്ണുതയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശകര്‍ എന്തു ചെയ്യണം? | Veeran Kutty, C S Venkiteshwaran, Deepak Shankaranarayanan |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "Migration and labour" Kerala's impending crisis | Reji Kuttappan, Dr K M Seethi, Benyamin, Sabin Iqbal |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Under The Tree | Storytelling | |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Bamboo grove | Biography: Is truth the first casualty? | Sheela Reddy, Eric Akoto, Prasanna Rajan |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Palace Hall | "Other India" Northeast narratives | Dr. Rita Chowdhury, Pradip Phanjoubam, Satchidanandan |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Festival Venue | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "How politics shapes culture" Bengal in the 60s | Maitrayee Chaudhuri, Sudeep Chakravarti, Gauradari Das |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Under The Tree | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Palace Hall | "Debutants in action" Why take to a profession that is suicidal? | Deepak Unnikrishnan, Sabyn Javeri, Felicia Yap, Sabin Iqbal |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Festival Venue | The future of the Indian metros | Gurmeet Rai, Kamal Malik, Peter Rich, K K Muhammad, V Sunil |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Balabhavan Hall | Technology, media, and the element of trust, BOOK LAUNCH - Venu Balakrishnan | Prof Devdas Rajaram, Subrashtha, Prasanna Rajan, Srinivasan K Swamy |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Under The Tree | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Palace Hall | "Temporary people, and their permanent problems." | Deepak Unnikrishnan, Sabin Iqbal |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Festival Venue | The dangers of subnationalism in a secular country | Ullekh NP, Vinod K Jose, Pradip Phanjoubam |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Balabhavan Hall | The evolutionary nature of good and evil | Ashok Ferrey, Dr. Amberish Satwik |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Under The Tree | മലയാള കവിത പാരായണം | P P Ramachandran, S Joseph, Arya Gopi, P Raman |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Bamboo grove | Poetry Chain | K Jayakumar, Gopikrishnan Kottoor, Meera Nair, Lakshmi Priya |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Palace Hall | Preview of Willian Dalrymple's book on the East India Company | William Dalrymple |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Festival Venue | "The new Ukrainian narrative" Living with and rebelling against Russia. | Andrei Kurkov, Oksana Zabuzhko |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "ഈ ഭാഷ എന്നും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ലേ?" കഥ കണ്ടെടുക്കുന്ന ഭാഷ: ഭാഷകളുടെ വീണ്ടെടുപ്പാണ് ഫിക്ഷനില്‍ നടക്കുന്നത് എന്നൊരു വാദം ഉയര്‍ന്നുവരുന്നുണ്ട്. മലയാളത്തിലെ ഗ്രാമ്യഭാഷകളുടെ വീണ്ടെടുപ്പ് സത്യമോ?, BOOK LAUNCH - Unni R | Unni R, S Hareesh, Vinoy Thomas, Francis Norohna, P S Rafeeq |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Under The Tree | "Translation" The problem of diversity of Indian languages | Gaurahari Das, Prasanna K Varma, RITA CHOWDHURY, Prathbha Rai, T V Varkey |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Bamboo grove | Do we need god? | Renuka Narayanan, K P Sasi, Monicah Wanjiru |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Palace Hall | The numbers in my words | Ashok Ferrey |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Festival Venue | The role of culture/landmark architecture in urban regeneration | Peter Rich |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Balabhavan Hall | "Good game, bad game" On money, racism and doping in sports | Mihir Bose, Dileep Premachandran |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Bamboo grove | "കഥ കഴിഞ്ഞോ?" സോഷ്യൽ മീഡിയയും പുതിയ സിനിമയും ശക്തമായി ഇടപെടുമ്പോൾ കഥയെഴുത്തിനു എന്ത് പ്രസക്തി?, BOOK LAUNCH - Yama | Sethu, Santhosh Etchikkanam, V J James, K Rekha, Yema |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 18.00 | Palace Hall | On history, Hinduism and the national identity | Dr Shashi Tharoor |
| 03 Feb 2018 | 18.00 | Balabhavan Hall | ||
| 03 Feb 2018 | 19:00 | Nishagandhi | Entertainment-Karsh Kale sound system | |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Palace Hall | രാഷ്ട്രീയ കവിതയുടെ കേരള ജീവിതം | Satchidanandan, Prabha Varma |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Festival Venue | "To see with other's eyes, to live with other's hearts." A discussion between doctors, donors and recipients | Dr. Raman Kutty, Sanjay Cherian |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Balabhavan Hall | The New Asian voice | Numair Chowdhuri, Mohammed Hanif, Ashok Ferrey, Bernice Chauly |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Under The Tree | Poetry Reading: English | Sudeep Sen, Adithi, Anupama Raju |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 10:00 | Bamboo grove | "സ്വര്‍ണം, സൗന്ദര്യം, സമൂഹം" മലയാളിയുടെ സാമൂഹിക സങ്കല്‍പങ്ങളെ നിര്‍ണയിക്കുന്ന മഞ്ഞലോഹത്തിന്റെ സാധ്യതകള്‍ | Dr. AK Jayashree, G Usha Kumari, M PSurendran, Bhagyalekshmi |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Palace Hall | ചലച്ചിത്ര സംഗീതം; ഋതുഭേദങ്ങള്‍ | BOOK LAUNCH-Ravi Menon | K Jayakumar, Bijibal, Ravi Menon |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Festival Venue | The medical nude | Dr Amberish Satwik |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "കേരളം ലൈംഗിക ന്യൂനപക്ഷ സൗഹൃദമോ?" തങ്ങളുടെ ഇടം സ്ഥാപിച്ചെടുക്കാന്‍ പൊതുസമൂഹത്തില്‍ നടത്തേണ്ട പൊളിച്ചെഴുത്തുകള്‍ എന്തൊക്കെ? | Jeevan Job Thomas, Sheetal Shyam, Soorya Abhilash, Dev R, Jijo Kuriakose |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | Under The Tree | Storytelling | Monicah Wanjiru |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 11:00 | |||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Palace Hall | "The Big Conflict " Local culture Vs Global Cities | Riyas Komu, Ashok Ferrey, Anil Dharker, N P Ullekh |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Festival Venue | "Pakistan and fiction" We believe Pakistan is a tough place for freedom of speech. Yet fiction is flourishing How and why? | Mohammed Hanif, Sabyn Javeri, Numair Chaudhuri |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Balabhavan Hall | "എന്തു കൊണ്ടാണ് മലയാളത്തില്‍ ഒരു ഷെര്‍ലെക് ഹോംസ് ഉണ്ടാവാത്തത്?" മലയാളത്തിലെ അപസര്‍പക സാഹിത്യം അത്തരമൊരു സാധ്യത ഇല്ലാതാക്കിയോ? | G R Indu Gopan, P K Rajasekharan, Loknath Behra, Subhash Chandran, C.V.Balakrishnan |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Under The Tree | കവിതയുടെ ഭാഷ | Anvar Ali, Anitha Thampi |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 12:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Palace Hall | "The counter-colonial food war" The conquest of international kitchens | Shafeena Yusuff Ail, Sashi Jacob |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Festival Venue | "Writing fiction in Malaysia and getting away with it" | Bernice Chauly, Felcia Yap |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Balabhavan Hall | സാമൂഹിക മാധ്യമങ്ങളിലെ സ്ത്രീസാന്നിധ്യം എന്തു മാറ്റങ്ങളാണ് കേരളത്തില്‍ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നത്? | J Devika, Dr. AK Jayashree, Unni R, NA Naseer |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Under The Tree | Storytelling | Monicah Wanjiru |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 13:00 | Bamboo grove | The art of the film poster and the narrative it represents | I Shanmughadas, Sabu Colonia, Riyas Komu, Parvathy T |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Palace Hall | Mahabharatha: How politically relevant is reinterpreting characters in contemporary light? | Anand Neelakandan, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, B Jeyamohan, Satchidanandan |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Festival Venue | മലയാളിയുടെ സുവിശേഷം | Joy Mathew, Sreekanth Kottakal |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Balabhavan Hall | Oriya literature "Emerging from Bengali colonialism" | Prathibha Ray, Gaurahri Das, Jatindra Kumar Nayak, Maitrayee Chaudhuri |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Under The Tree | "പ്രവാസിയുടെ സര്‍ഗാത്മക ജീവിതം" കേരളത്തിന് മാത്രം അവകാശപ്പെടാവുന്ന പ്രവാസ സാഹിത്യം, BOOK LAUNCH - Beniyamin | M Mukundan, Dr. KM Seethi, Benyamin, K Kannan |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 14:00 | Bamboo grove | "പ്രവാസിയുടെ സര്‍ഗാത്മക ജീവിതം" കേരളത്തിന് മാത്രം അവകാശപ്പെടാവുന്ന പ്രവാസ സാഹിത്യം, BOOK LAUNCH - Beniyamin | M Mukundan, Dr. K M Seethi, Benyamin, K Kannan |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Palace Hall | Indian literature in 21st century: trends and prospects | David Davidar, Prasanna Rajan |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Festival Venue | The things I see in my head | Sabriye Tenberken |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Balabhavan Hall | തെറിയുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയം അത്രമേല്‍ തെറിയാണോ തെറിവാക്കുകള്‍? | Kalpetta Narayanan, Rishi Das, Lasar Shine, V M Devadas, Dinu |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Under The Tree | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 15:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Palace Hall | "The Word surely is trans-gender" Why should there be a category of ‘fem-writing’? | Meenakshi Madhavan Reddy, K R Meera, Paramita Satpathy |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Festival Venue | The new African woman | Ayesha Hurrana Attah, Monicah Wanjiru, Bigoa Chuol, |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Balabhavan Hall | How artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are redefining the media ecology | Prof Devdas Rajaram |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Under The Tree | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 16:00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Palace Hall | "The murder the day before" How to solve a crime in a world without memory | Felicia Yap, C P Surendran |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Festival Venue | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Balabhavan Hall | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Under The Tree | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 17.00 | Bamboo grove | ||
| 04 Feb 2018 | 18.00 | Palace Hall | VALEDICTORY | 5.00 pm |
| 04 Feb 2018 | 19:00 | Nishagandhi | Entertainment-Karthik Music Experience |
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