The Hyderabad Literary Festival is a truly local mela, mixed in with the flavours of other regions of the country and of course the world. In this episode, we speak to some of the many who have participated in the festival in different ways, from organizing it to funding it to bringing in the books and art and discussion, to simply reveling in it.
Featured in the episode are:
Jayesh Ranjan, Festival Director and Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce and Information Technology, Government of Telangana
Sadhana Ramchander, Editor, and Founder, Blue Pencil Infodesign
Kalpana Kannabiran, Sociologist and Legal Scholar, Director, Central for Social Development
Aparna Rayaprol, Professor, Department of Sociology and Trustee, Rayaprol Literary Trust
Seetha Anand Vaidyam, Early Childhood Educator
Serish Nanisetti, Journalist and Author
Uday Rao, Orient Blackswan Limited
You can find all the sessions of HLF2021 on the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQMVlk0wc0EcvwNXzMvFQeA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQMVlk0wc0EcvwNXzMvFQeA)
17 Jan 2021
Hyderabad Literary Festival 2021: Behind the Scenes
Every year in the last week of January, Hyderabad hosts its own literary festival, a variegated celebration of books, cinema, art, theatre, poetry...in short, all things cultural. But not just cultural. There’s also a good dose of environment, civic discourse, and of course, street food and Irani chai. This year, though, the festival will be online, and while we will of course miss the charm of sitting under the trees and spending three days basking in the pleasures of literature and the imagination, the show will go on. In this special episode of Reading for Our Times, I speak with the four directors of the Hyderabad Literary Festival about the 2021 iteration—the challenges it brings, and the promise it still has to create “social togetherness” not just for those in the city, but everywhere on the Internet where there is a love of culture.
For more information on HLF2021, visit the website: www.hydlitfest.org (http://www.hydlitfest.org/) and follow the festival on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/hlf-india) over the three days of the festival (January 22-24) and beyond!
25 Dec 2020
Our Year in Reading--Wrapping up 2020
In all the uncertainty and anxiety of 2020, we continued to find sustenance, refuge, learning and enjoyment in books. On walls, they lent gravitas to Zoom calls, and contributed to year-end Christmas cheer as they danced into tree-like piles. But most of all, they lent warmth to the hands and delight to the eyes and mind, whether on the backlit screens of kindles or in varied font on creamy rag.
In this special episode of Reading for our Times, a few readers look back at their year in books—what they meant, what they gave, and why reading is for all time.
Here’s a list of books featured in the episode:
A Memory of Light (Book 11 in The Wheel of Time Series) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Beastly Tales from Here and There by Vikram Seth
A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer
Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald
Farthest Field by Raghu Karnad
The Spirit of Indian Painting by B N Goswami
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
If you’re ever short of book recommendations, you may wish to check out Suroor Ali Khan’s blog, which has a wealth of reviews, posted weekly: Talking About Books (https://talking-about-books.com/)
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