The Mumbai LitFest all set for it's third appearance

Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest makes its third appearance at NCPA. The festival, now considered one of India’s two best literary festivals, is even bigger and more ambitious this year, with over 100 participants, as many as 30 of them from overseas. 

The enclosed document lists festival scheduler, the book launches, the workshops, the authors who are going to be present, performance details etc for your reference.

Naseeruddin Shah and Astad Deboo will perform, as will foreign participants with performances much acclaimed abroad but not seen in India. Eminent personalities like Faramerz Dabhoiwala Scott Carney will conduct sessions. Also present will be Professor Juliet Mitchell of Cambridge University whose psycho-analytical studies of feminism and sibling rivalry are landmarks in their fields.

Amongst the speakers and panelists will be Shashi Tharoor, Shobhaa De, Ashok Banker whose new book marks a surprising change from his mythological series. Many leading poets from India (Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ranjit Hoskote, Gieve Patel, Arundhati Subramaniam), will read along with established English poets, (Glynn Maxwell and Ruth Padel).

Making a rare public appearance will be Marianne Pearl (whose book about her slain husband Daniel Pearl was made into the film A Mighty Heart). Lending a spiritual heft to the festival will be Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev, while Pakistani writers (Mohd Hanif, Moni Mohsin) will present their views from across the border.  Also participating will be writers from Australia, Canada and Slovenia. 

Each day will be an intellectual smorgasbord of events ranging from engaging panel discussions, book launches, workshops, open house conversations with eminent authors, publishers and literary agents, poetry readings and straight talks.