Programme

December 13, 2012 DMK Auditorium, Kala Academy

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Inaugural Ceremony

6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Book Release: Adi Parva by Amruta Patil Hosted by: Dr. Vidya Dehejia 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Exclusive Solo Performance by world renowned soprano Patricia Rosario supported by Mark Troop & Amar Muchhala

December 14, 2012 Mandovi Hall, The International Centre Goa (ICG)

10:00 am to 10:45 am Book Release: These My Words by Eunice D’Souza Hosted by: Jerry Pinto 10:50 am to 11:40 am Song of Goa: Konkani Poetry Featuring: Ramesh Veluskar, Nutan Sakhardande, Guadalupe Dias, Nilba Khandekar, Paresh Kamat Hosted by: Madhav Borkar 11:45 pm to 12:30 pm Eyewitnesses to History: Memoirs of Goa Featuring: Irene Heredia, Rudolf Heredia, Prabhakar Kamat, Pratima Kamat Hosted by: Jose Lourenco 12:35 pm to 1:30 pm Dialogue: Fidelity to Fiction Featuring: Mridula Garg & Mamang Dai Hosted by: Prava Rai 2:30 pm to 3:20 pm Hit & Myth: Amish Tripathi Featuring: Amish Tripathi Hosted by: Jugneeta Sudan 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Book Release: Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa Featuring: Jessica Faleiro Hosted by: R. Benedito Ferrao

Zuari Hall, ICG

10:30 am - 11:15 am Dialogue: Creating Art in a Conflict Zone Featuring: Neerja Mattoo, Naseem Shafaie Hosted by: M Amin Bhat 11:30 am - 12:35 pm Ticket to ride’ A brief journey Featuring: Walter D’Souza Hosted by: Naguesh Sardesai 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm Dialogue: Critical Dilemmas Featuring: E V Ramakrishnan, Harish Trivedi Hosted by: Chandrahas Choudhury 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm Dialogue: Coming Back to Kashmir Featuring: Jyotsna Singh & Nikhil Chopra Hosted by: Asiya Zahoor

December 15, 2012 Mandovi Hall, ICG

3:10 pm to 4:10 pm “Aksharanubhava” Featuring: Achyut Palav Hosted by: Naguesh Sardesai

09:30 am to 10:30 am Take it in Blood - a documentary on M.C. Kash Featuring: Rana Ghose Hosted by: Fahad Shah

10:35 am to 11:30 am Living with Censorship: The Kashmir Experience Abolim Hall, ICG Featuring: Iftikar Gilani, Yusuf Jameel, Afsana Rashid, Fahad Shah 11:30 am - 12:45 pm Film Screening: M K Raina’s Mann Faqeeri Hosted by: Samar Halarnkar Featuring: A musical journey through the 11:35 am to 12:15 pm Sufiyana Kalam music of Kashmir Ride Across the River: Health Care in Chhattisgar Featuring: Dilip D’Souza Abolim Corridor Hosted by: Samanth Subramanian 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm Calligraphy Demonstrations 12:20 pm to 1:20 pm Struggling for a Voice: Language Battles Featuring: Achyut Palav Featuring: Naseem Shafaie, Mitra Phukan, Madhavi Sardesai 1:45 pm to 2:15 pm Hosted by: Rita Kothari Reading - Performance “Out stealing 1:25 pm to 2:15 pm horses” Dialogue: Critical Dilemmas Featuring: Astri Ghosh & Vipin Sharma Featuring: E V Ramakrishnan, Harish Trivedi Raj Bhavan Hosted by: Chandrahas Choudhury 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm (BREAK) Readings (10 to 12 Mins each) Featuring: Pundalik Naik Introduced by 3:00 pm to 3:25 pm Kiran Budkuley Book Launch: Canacona: The Last Frontier Featuring: Tony Martin & F. M. Nadaf Hosted by: Victor Rangel- Ribeiro Hosted by: Frederick Noronha Featuring: Book Release: Body Language by Manohar Shetty 3:25 pm to 4:15 pm Featuring: Maria Aurora Couto, Salil Symposium: The Future of Publishing in Chaturvedi, Landeg White, Jeet Thayil, Teju Goa Featuring: Dilip Borkar, Jose Salvador Cole Fernandes, Leonard Fernandes, Aditya Bhide 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm Hosted by: Augusto Pinto Exclusive Bhand Pather Performance Featuring: Shikargha - Dialogue between the 4:15 pm to 5:05 pm Symposium: Goa and the World hunter and the hunted Featuring: Damodar Mauzo, Brian Directed by: M K Raina Mendonca, R Benedito Ferrao, Vishram Gupte Hosted by: Prava Rai 5:05 pm to 5:50 pm Book Launch: Taking Sides: Reservation Quotas and Minority Rights in India Featuring: Rudolf Heredia, Joao Fernandes, Jason K. Fernandes, Sabina Martins Hosted by: Jerry Pinto Supported by: Goa Book Club Zuari Hall, ICG 10:00 am to 11:00 am Retrospective Featuring: Vamona A S Navelkar Hosted by: Naguesh Sardesai 11:10 am to 12:30 pm Women Printmakers - “Vocabulary, Language & Process” Featuring: Kavita Shah Hosted by: Hanuman Kambli

12:35 pm to 1:20 pm Dialogue: Coming Back to Kashmir Featuring: Jyotsna Singh & Nikhil Chopra Hosted by: Asiya Zahoor 1:20 pm to 2:00 pm Rediscovering Camoens: Bard of Goa? Featuring: Landeg White Hosted by: Musharraf Farooqi 2:00 pm to 2:55 pm Dialogue: Dare to Dream Featuring: Teju Cole & Musharraf Farooqi Hosted by: Chandrahas Choudhury 3:00 pm to 3:50 pm Graphic Books: A Beginners’ Guide Featuring: Aniruddha Sen Gupta Zuari Hall, ICG 4:00 pm to 4:50 pm Communicating Across Cultures through Comics Featuring: Nicolas Wild in conversation with Amitabh Kumar 5:00 pm to 5:50 pm Pao!: The Collective Experience Featuring: a discussion with Orijit Sen & Amitabh Kumar about the Pao Collective and their first anthology of comics Hosted by: Rajiv D’Silva Supported by: Graphics Books Goa Abolim Hall, ICG 10:30 am to 11:30 am Documentary on Jnanpith awardee Ravindra Kelekar, by Jyoti Kunkolienkar Featuring: Damodar Mauzo & Sharmad Raiturkar 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Theatre Workshop Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Performance of The Mumbai Zoo Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury Jardim Garcia de Orta (Municipal Garden) 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Children’s Book Festival Organised by: Bookworm DMK Auditorium, Kala Academy 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm (Foyer Area) Calligraphy Demonstrations Featuring: Achyut Palav 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Bhagrallem Goem - Golden Goa Featuring: Journey of Konkani music’ from 16th Century to date with classical & semiclassical music Directed by: Prof. Purnanand Chari 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm Baadshah Paather - an adaptation of the Shakespeare’s KING LEAR Directed by: M K Raina



10:00 am to 11:00 am Getting the Truth out: Kashmir’s New Journalism Featuring: Fahad Shah, Afsana Rashid, Yusuf Jameel, Iftikar Gilani Hosted by: Samar Halarnkar

4:15 pm to 4:50 pm Artist/ Writer, Writer/ Artist Featuring: Savia Viegas discusses her new graphic books ‘Eddi and Diddi’ and ‘Abhanama” Hosted by: Jason Keith Fernandes

10:00 am to 11:00 am Reimaging Kashmir/ Reinventing India Featuring: Iftikar Gilani, Saadut Hussain, Kiran Nagarkar Hosted by: Jahnavi Barua

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Dilemmas of Translation Featuring: Rita Kothari, Neerja Mattoo, Astri Ghosh, Suresh Amonkar Hosted by: Varsha Das

5:00 pm to 5:50 pm Dialogue: The Return of the Activist Storyteller Featuring: Amruta Patil & Orijit Sen Hosted by: Venita Coelho

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Dialogue: The Politics of Publishing Featuring: Sethumadhavan & Varsha Das Hosted by: Kishwar Desai

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Returning the Western Gaze: Pandita Ramabai Featuring: Meera Kosambi

Abolim Hall, ICG

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Theatre Workshop Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Dialogue: Flying While Brown: The Rise & Fall of Race in Obama’s America Featuring: Teju Cole & Himanshu Suri Hosted by: Jeet Thayil

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Dialogue: This Revolution will be Tweeted Featuring: Teju Cole, Saadut Hussain Hosted by: Vivek Menezes

1:45 pm to 2:15 pm Reading - Performance “Out Stealing Horses” Featuring: Astri Ghosh & Vipin Sharma

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Rediscovering Camoens: A Goan Bard? Featuring: Landeg White Hosted by: Musharraf Farooqi

Jardim Garcia de Orta (Municipal Garden) 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Children’s Book Festival Book Release: The Extras by Kiran Organised by: Bookworm Nagarkar Hosted by: Jerry Pinto

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Dialogue: Finding My Voice Featuring: Meena Kandasamy, Jahnavi Barua Hosted by: Anushka Ravishankar 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Exclusive William Dalrymple Book Release: Return of the King Featuring: William Dalrymple Hosted by: Jeet Thayil 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Behind the Green Room: A Pioneering Journey in Indian Fashion Featuring: Wendell Rodricks Hosted by: Sathya Saran

Zuari Hall, ICG

12:30 pm to 1:30 pm MUSUI and MAIYA Featuring: K S Radhakrishnan Hosted by: Hanuman Kambli 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm Searching for Zarathusthra Featuring: Nicolas Wild Hosted by: Amruta Patil 3:20 pm to 4:10 pm When Crows Are White Featuring: Jerry Pinto Hosted by: Jose Lourenco

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Dialogue: Writing a Biography Featuring: Sudhir Kakar Hosted by: Harish Trivedi

Abolim Hall, ICG

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Theatre Workshop Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury 2:15 pm to 3:00 pm Performance of The Mumbai Zoo Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury

Azad Maidan, Panaji

7:30 pm to 8:00 pm Valedictory Address Featuring: Jerry Pinto, Sethumadhavan 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm Himanshu Suri - Solo Rap Performance 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm Lou Majaw & friends The Legendary Rocker from Shillong

Azad Maidan, Panaji

5:30 pm to 6:00 pm Performance of ‘That’s Your Line Anyway’ Featuring: Tathagata Chowdhury 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm GALF Public Readings Featuring: Willy Goes, Vishnu Surya Wagh, Brian Mendonca, Saadut Hussain, Landeg White, Meena Kandasamy Hosted by: Jerry Pinto 7:45 pm to 9:15 pm Krishna Leela - theatrical performance; amalgamation of dance, drama and poetry Directed & choreographed by: Verushka Pather Co-presented by: Natya Ananda Fine Arts Academy, South Africa, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi and dancers the Tharanginee School, Chennai, India

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Kashmir: Is the Hindu - Muslim divide Surmountable? Featuring: Neeraj Mattoo, Yusuf Jameel, M Amin Bhat, Indu Kilam Hosted by: Asiya Zahoor 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Different Ways of Belonging Featuring: Mitra Phukan, Naseem Shafaie, Katha Kakkar, Meena Kandasamy Hosted by: Dilip D’Souza 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Book Release: Dharmanand Kosambi’s selected writing Featuring: Meera Kosambi Hosted by: Maria Aurora Couto

Zuari Hall, ICG

11:30 am to 12:45 pm The Journey of an Artist Featuring: Jatin Das Hosted by: Hanuman Kambli

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm The Making of a Diva Featuring: Patricia Rozario Hosted by: Victor Rangel - Ribeiro

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