At this writing workshop, cultural curator and author Parmesh Shahani and journalists Dhamini Ratnam and Dhrubo Jyoti will explore queer memoirs with participants. Some key elements of the session include an introduction to queerness in non-fiction writing, finding the 'Other' in the 'Self', storyboarding ideas, and structuring and organising non-fiction writing.
ON November 7; 5 pm to 6.30 pm
AT West Room
Jerry Pinto and Shehan Karunatilaka
Booker Prize winner and Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka will speak to poet-novelist Jerry Pinto about the novel as a form. His debut novel, Chinaman, set against the backdrop of a cricket world cup victory and the civil war, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2012; his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, featuring a dead photographer who sets out to solve the mystery of his own death, won the 2022
Booker Prize.
ON: Nov 7; 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm
AT Tata Theatre
K Sridhar
Two Mumbai-based authors, scientist-novelist K Sridhar and engineer-writer Amrita Mahale, will be in conversation with Dilip D'Souza to speak about the intersections of science and fiction. Where does logic end and imagination begin? How does an analytical mind find poetic expression? How do reason and wonder find a common ground in writing?
ON November 8; 12 pm to 1 pm
AT Little Theatre
Twelve performance poets -- Apeksha Jadhav, Arpit Yadav, Ashay Kadam, Ashu Bhoir, Faiza Shaikh, Jhankar Bhowate, Kalpesh Suroshe, Sagina Shaikh, Sheema Farheen, Shraddha Matal, Shraddha Mishra, Tahura Mulla -- will take the stage. The group consists of youth, women, and the transgender community, writing in English, Hindi, and Marathi, who participated in workshops by Word Travels, Sydney. The poems will range from rap
to ghazal.
ON November 9; 2 pm
AT Little Theatre
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