BE PART

CHIEF GUEST
Shri Bhupender Yadav
(Lok Sabha MP, Alwar | Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change)

GUESTS OF HONOUR
Smt. Diya Kumari
(Deputy Chief Minister - Rajasthan)

Shri K. Laxman
(Rajya Sabha MP & Member, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs)

SPECIAL GUEST
Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla
(Member of Parliament & Former Foreign Secretary)

DISTINGUISHED GUEST
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
(Fiction Laureate, Ireland)

Monisha Advani in conversation with Diana Mickevičienė, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, Mohamed Maliki

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Ireland) chairs a conversation with Hema Devare (India) and Branimir Farkaš (Croatia), exploring the interplay between life, storytelling and theatre.

Ranjit Rae (India) joins Thierry Mathou (France) in a conversation exploring Bhutan through Mathou’s books on the country.

K.S.P.V. Pavan Kumar (India) in conversation with Prashant Agrawal (India)

Mamang Dai (India) explores the poetry and literary world of Indran Amirthanayagam (USA).

Navtej Sarna (India) chairs a conversation with M.M. Tawfik (Egypt), Anju Ranjan (India) and Janne Teller (Denmark) on the enduring appeal of short stories.

Major General K. Narayanan (Retd.) (India) joins Gurjit Singh (India), Aftab Seth (India) and Sudhir T. Devare (India) to explore the past, present and future of India’s ties with its Asian neighbors.

Raffaela Puggioni (Italy) digs deep into the crisis facing Europe in conversation with Sandra Kalniete (Latvia), Frédéric Doré (France), Piotr Antoni Świtalski (Poland)

Krishnan Srinivasan (India) in conversation with Mandla Langa (South Africa)

Trisha De Niyogi (India) in discussion with Laimonas Talat-Kelpša (Lithuania), Janne Teller (Denmark) and Gurjit Singh (India) on stories told through sketches

Deepak Bhojwani (India) in conversation with Jorge Heine (Chile)

Padma Rao Sundarji (India) unravels the mystery of Thomas Prinz (Germany)

Chinmaya Lal Thakur (India) in conversation with Felicity Volk (Australia)

Navdeep Suri (India) chairs a conversation with Gonchig Ganbold (Mongolia), Mohamed Tawfik (Egypt) and Navtej Sarna (India)

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Ireland) chairs a conversation with Sandra Kalniete (Latvia), Ernesto Pinto-Bazurco Rittler (Peru) and Aftab Seth (India)

Dnyaneshwar Mulay (India), Poonam Surie (India), Indran Amirthanayagam (USA) Anju Ranjan (India). Reading & Discussion

Sreeram Chaulia (India) analyses India’s ties with Pakistan with T.C.A. Raghavan (India), Ruchi Ghanashyam (India) and Ajay Bisaria (India)

Felicity Volk (Australia) expands her horizon of Nepal in discussion with Madan Kumar Bhattarai (Nepal), Lisa Choegyal (Nepal), and Ranjit Rae (India)

Vikas Swarup (India) chairs a conversation with Mandla Langa (South Africa), Frédéric Doré (France) and Firat Sunel (Turkey) on novels and their plots.

Major General K. Narayanan (Retd) (India) in conversation with South Korean writers Thae Yong-ho and Hye Seon Oh

Keshav Padmanabhan (India) converses with debut novelist Pujya Priyadarshini (India)

Monisha Advani (India) attempts to understand the travelling lenses of writers in conversation with Enrique Criado Navamuel (Spain), John Brady Kiesling (USA), Sadhna Shanker (India)

Jorge Heine (Chile) chairs a conversation with Mariano Caucino (Argentina), Ernesto Pinto-Bazurco Rittler (Peru) and Alberto Guani (Uruguay) on the region’s histories, connections and contemporary perspectives.

Kallol Bhattacherjee (India) in conversation with Tariq Ahmed Karim (Bangladesh) on his book

Olesia Mamchych (Ukraine) in conversation with Luís Filipe Castro Mendes (Portugal)

Talmiz Ahmad (India) chairs a conversation with Narayanappa Janardhan (India), Navdeep Suri (India) and Anil Trigunayat (India) on the shifting geopolitical landscape of West Asia and the complex forces shaping the Middle East.

Padma Rao Sundarji (India) in conversation with Krishnan Srinivasan (India), Thomas Prinz (Germany), and Firat Sunel (Turkey) on crime fictions and thrillers

Abdulla Shahid (Maldives) chairs a conversation with Ani Yeremyan (Armenia), Mookhesswur Choonee (Mauritius) and Dnyaneshwar Mulay (India)

Nasmeem Farhin Akhtar (India) in conversation with Mpho Boshego (South Africa) on her debut novel Diplomatic Ties.

Nalin Surie (India) chairs a conversation with Gonchig Ganbold (Mongolia) and Madan Kumar Bhattarai (Nepal)

S. Venkat Narayan (India) chairs a conversation with Branimir Farkaš (Croatia), Dr. Waiel Awwad (Syria) and Padma Rao Sundarji (India) on how journalism navigates diplomacy, conflict and crisis—and shapes our understanding of a changing world.

T.C.A. Raghavan (India) chairs a conversation with Poonam Surie (India), Vikas Swarup (India), Enrique Criado Navamuel (Spain).

M Behzad Fatmi (India) in conversation with Sundeep Waslekar (India)

CHIEF GUEST 
Shri Haribhau Kisanrao Bagade
(Governor of Rajasthan)

GUEST OF HONOUR
Shri Pramod Pandurang Sawant
(Chief Minister - Goa)