Tata Literature Live! is Mumbai’s largest international literary festival. Featuring authors, poets, thought leaders and more it is an intellectually stimulating event for people of all ages. The types of sessions include from book launches, panel discussions, straight talks, debates, performances and workshops – for both, kids and adults.
The tenth edition of the festival will take place from Thursday, 14th November to Sunday, 17th November 2019 in 3 locations across the city of Mumbai. N.C.P.A near Nariman Point, S.P.I.C.E in Bandra West and Prithvi in Juhu.
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Talking about the same festival Director Anil Dharker said,
Tata Lit Live is 10 years old! When we open our doors on November 14, it will be to a landmark event. Some of you will have grown ten years older with us; some of you will be here for the first time. To all of you, our ever-growing audience, we say welcome and thank you.
I remember the day the distinguished trio of Mumbai citizens, Gerson da Cunha, Sheilu Srinivasan and Padmini Mirchandani asked me, ‘Shouldn’t our city have an international literary festival?’ Yes, of course I said, ours is India’s most cosmopolitan city with a wonderful literary tradition, so Mumbai must have a litfest. “So you will do it?” they said in unison. After a moment’s thought (which lasted two days), I said ‘Why not?’ After all, how difficult would it be to organise a festival? Ring a few authors, get a sponsor or two, draw up a schedule, and you are ready to go. We all learn things the hard way.
Without the Tata group, the festival couldn’t possibly take place on the scale and of the quality that has been maintained throughout the decade. No sponsor could possibly be as supportive, and as willing to go along with us on the expansion of the festival, adding first, the Prithvi Theatre complex and then St Paul’s Institute complex last year so that the festival is now in three geographical locations of Mumbai — Nariman Point, Bandra and Juhu. Tata’s R Gopalakrishnan was our starting point, then came Mukund Rajan and now Harish Bhat, all of them have embraced the festival warmly and completely. Atul Agrawal, supported by Jayaa Sapkale, has been the Tata team that has worked with the festival all through the ten years, taking the rough with the smooth in their stride.
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Notable, authors and personalities like Naman Ahuja, Nadir Godrej, Pankaj Kapur, Perumal Murugan, Rajat Gupta, Shashi Tharoor, Shobhaa De, Shubha Mudgal, Simon Taufel, Swami Agnivesh, Vishal Bhardwaj, William Dalrymple, Yashwant Sinha will grace the event with their presence.
The sessions will revolve on topics like Economy, Agrarian Distress, Water Crisis, Mental Health, Global Warming, Arts & Culture, Literature in all its forms, Cricket.
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