Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival - Day 1 - January 17th 2020.




The eleventh edition of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival was held from the 17th to the 19th of January 2020 at five different venues in Kolkata. Various literary events were held, and many bestselling authors, dignitaries, film and theatre personalities graced the eleventh edition of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival.

The first day of the Festival began with the inaugural session on Forgotten Treasures with William Dalrymple and Jawahar Sircar in conversation on the latest book, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company by William Dalrymple.



The inauguration was followed by discussions and conversations at the various venues of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival.
A special session on what today’s youth want to read with Vivaan Shah, Kavita Kane, Karuna Ezara Parikh and Jimmy Tangree was a unique and interesting one.
The next session was In a New Light: Revisiting Dara Shukoh, Sri Chaitanya and Veer Savarkar with Vikram Sampath, Avik Chanda, Chitrita Banerji and Oindrilla Dutt.
A brilliant session on the issues we all are grappling with at present Homelands: Identity, nationalism and belonging with Samrat Chowdhury, Bronwyn Fredericks, Carlo Pizzati, Saira Shah Halim and Saaz Aggarwal was followed by the session Frenemies? How Political can Literature truly be? where Paul Zacharia, Anita Heiss, Sandip Roy, Saikat Majumdar, Devasis and Antara Dev Sen explored the much intriguing question - Does politics influence literature and vice-versa?
 This was followed by a session Ghawre Bairey Today - contemporizing the classic where Award-winning actor-director Aparna Sen discussed her latest film: Ghawre Bairey Aaj -a contemporary take on the classic novel by Rabindranath Tagore with Piya Chakraborty, Samik Bandyopadhyay and Modhurima Sinha.



 A life in Literature: In Tribute to Late Nabaneeta Dev Sen: A tribute to the late novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen by Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Samik Bandyopadhyay and her daughters Antara Dev Sen & Nandana Dev Sen with Anjum Katyal. Excerpts from Nabaneeta Dev Sen's works were read out by the panellists reminiscing the great author.



Stories of Individual Vs State cases and struggles - David vs Goliath with Jawhar Sircar, Lal Bhatia, Sumona Chakravarty and Jael Silliman was followed by the session Legacy Wars: The Politics of History in India. In this session, Jamini Bhagwati, Ruchir Joshi, Jawahar Sircar, Vikram Sampath, and Anik Dutta discussed the influence of the timeline, which can be felt all spectrum of life like academics, movies, literature and journalism, with Shikha Mukherjee.



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