Bhopal Literature & Art Festival

HEARTLAND STORIES encourages the narration of stories so as to unlock those hidden human emotions that are intrinsic to all of us and which bind our spirits together. This togetherness is the powerful force that can be evoked to transform the lone individual into the powerful collective. This is where words written find voice, silence finds expression and darkness is illuminated - so as to touch and kindle the soul of every individual, every collective, every society. Heartland Stories are those stories that stimulate the intellect and provoke detailed discussion and candid dialogue. Inspired by the glorious traditions and rich history of Central India - stories from the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Sanchi (close to the Heliodorus Pillar and the Udaygiri Caves) and Bhimbhedka, the enticing and mysterious jungles of Central India, the upsurge of traditional and contemporary arts

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12-14 JAN
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estival 2024

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

ANTARANG: Invocation to Goddess Saraswati by Smita Nagdev (Sitarist). Inauguration of BLF 2024

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

ANTARANG: Samrat Vikramaditya, Life and Times: Dr Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit and R C Thakur in conversation with Dr Shriram Tiwari

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Power of Social Media Influencers in Marketing a City, Avinash Lavania , Shashank Shukla , Chinmay Godha , Anand Sharma , Madiha Reshamwala and Himanshu Bansal. Moderated by Rajeev Mishra

ABHIRANG: Banker and Custodian of Trust: Rajnish Kumar in conversation with Prof Ramesh Shivagunde and Dr Rajan Katoch

VAGARTH: BLF Presentation: Patrick Geddes, Town Planning and Environmentalism, Abhilash Khandekar. Moderated by Savita Raje

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

ANTARANG: Baat Niklegi Toh Phir, the life and music of Jagjit Singh: Sathya Saran in conversation with Vertul Singh accompanied by Ghazal Exponent Dr Neena Shrivastava

ABHIRANG: Meanings of Water Places in Past Urban Centres: Dr Sara Keller in conversation with Dr Susanne Rau and Dr Meera Dass

VAGARTH: Fashion, Sustainability and the Circular Economy: Rohit Kansal, Sudha Dhingra and Mumtaz Khan and Rishika Nema. Moderated by Vishakha Agarwal

3:50 PM - 4:30 PM

ANTARANG: Bheegi Lakeerein, Rita Jhunjhunwala in conversation with Dr Meera Dass and Maninder Kalra

ABHIRANG:  BLF Presentation: Bankruptcy and Insolvency Laws and Cases in India: Anant Merathia  in conversation wiith Shailendra Singh and Amit Pratap Singh

VAGARTH: The Everest Girl: Brajesh Rajput in conversation with Megha Parmar

4:30 PM - 5:10 PM

ANTARANG: BLF And Yash Raj Films Presentation: Making of the series ‘The Railway Men’ , Shiv Rawail in conversation with Rahul Noronha

5:10 PM - 5:30 PM

ANTARANG: ‘The Railway Men' and the Global Resonance of the Bhopal Story, Rajendra Kothari, Pratap Verma and Omar Faruq Ali in conversation with Rahul Noronha

5:30 PM - 6:10 PM

BAHIRANG: The Queen of Indian Pop, Usha Uthup in conversation with Srishti Jha and Sathya Saran

6:15 PM Onwards

BAHIRANG: Pop Queen Usha Uthup: Golden Melodies of Yesteryear, Usha Uthup Live Performance

11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Forecourt in front of Adivasi Art Gallery: Vernacular Gond Paintings: Exhibition and Demonstration by Radheyshyam Kherwar of Wasimkhar village, Balaghat

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

ANTARANG: Gita for Students, Dr Vijay Agarwal and O P Shrivastava in conversation with Dr Ritu Pandey Sharma

VAGARTH: Fireside Chat: Running a successful Legal Practice, Thrill and Challenges: Anant Merathia in conversation with Shlok Chandra

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

ANTARANG: The Last Mile, Amarjeet Sinha in conversation with R Parasuram and Ved Arya

ABHIRANG: BLF Presentation: Climate Change: Rivers and Landscapes, Manu Bhatnagar and Namgay Choden. Moderated by Surendra Kumar Sarda

 

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

ANTARANG:  BLF Presentation: Museums as Time Machines, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta. Moderated by Sunit Tandon

ABHIRANG: World Upside Down: How India is Recalibrating its Geopolitics, Sujan R. Chinoy in conversation with Pankaj Saran and Shishir Priyadarshi

VAGARTH: Spies, Art & Terrorism, Tarun Mehrishi in conversation with Rishi Shukla and Dr Pradeep Kapoor

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

ANTARANG - VAGARTH FORECOURT: Bamboo Ensemble from Dindori, Eco Tunes Live Performance by Subhasis Sabyasachi & Team

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

ANTARANG: Wildlife Pursuit: Shivang Mehta and Aly Rashid in conversation with Latika Nath

ABHIRANG:The Andaman Islands Development, Ajay Saini, Pankaj Sekhsaria and Vice Admiral (retd) Bimal Verma in conversation with Amitabh Pande

VAGARTH: BLF Presentation: Role of Culture in City Development, Case Study Maheshwar, by Research Students of SPA Bhopal

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

ANTARANG: West Asia at War, Will there ever be Peace? Talmiz Ahmad and Pankaj Saran in conversation with Vikram Mehta

ABHIRANG: The Spirit of India, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee in conversation with Dr Sandeep Shastri 

VAGARTH: Remembering Munshi Premchand, Sara Rai in conversation with Dr Seema Raizada

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: From Ashoka to Chandragupta II: Archeological remains at Vidisha: Dr Meera Dass in conversation with Dr Rima Hooja

ABHIRANG: Rani Durgawati :The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen, Nandini Sen Gupta in conversation with Dr Neha Jain and Jyoti Pande

VAGARTH: Pathways to a Dominant and Inclusive India, Dr Ganesh Natarajan in conversation with Rajat Kathuria and Seema Verma

5:00 PM - 5:50 PM

ANTARANG: Pitchside: A Close View of Indian Cricket: Amrit Mathur in conversation with Arun Lal and Shlok Chandra

ABHIRANG: Politics, Victory and Loss: Abhigyan Prakash, Jayshree M Sundar and Brajesh Rajput in conversation with Dr Sandeep Shastri

VAGARTH: Leading A Life with Purpose: Ved Arya in conversation with R Parasuram and Gauri Singh

6:00 PM - 6:50 PM

ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Influence of Western Classical Music and Theatre on Modern Indian Arts by Sunit Tandon. Moderated by Shailaja Srinivasan

ABHIRANG: Modern Indian Poetry: Jamshed and Tajender Singh Luthra in conversation with Vertul Singh

VAGARTH: Fireside Chat: Being a Successful Diplomat, what it takes: Ajay Bisaria in conversation with Dr Neha Jain

 

7:00 PM - 7:50 PM

ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Vivan Sundaram, The Works of a Master by Pankaj Butalia. Moderated by Dr Rima Hooja

ABHIRANG: BLF Presentation: Music, Cinema and Art for National Development: DJ Narain. Moderated by P K Dash

VAGARTH: Fireside Chat: What it takes to be a popular TV Anchor: Abhigyan Prakash in conversation with Brajesh Rajput

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

SATRANG: Students' Painting Competition  
For School (9 to 12) & College Students
Walk-in Registrations from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
 

1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

KATHARANG: Storytelling Workshop & Contest 
For College Students
Walk-in Registrations from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Workshop by International Storyteller Ms Jyoti Pande

11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Forecourt in front of Adivasi Art Gallery: Vernacular Gond Paintings: Exhibition and Demonstration by Radheyshyam Kherwar of Wasimkhar village, Balaghat

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Bhopal Heritage Walk - Bhopal Heritage Walk - A journey of historical and architectural development from the 11th C to 21st C (Paramara embankment, Ancient water bodies, Gond Fort, Dargah, Hammam, Palaces, Iqbal Maidan, Sadar Manzil, Tajul Masajid). Starting from Kamla Park

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

ANTARANG: BLF Presentation: Constitutional Morality, Justice Madan B Lokur. Moderated by Bishwajit Bhattacharyya

ABHIRANG: History and its Expression in Architecture: The Fort and City of Shahjahanabad and the Garden Tomb of Humayun, Anisha Shekhar Mukherji and Neeru Misra in conversation with Dr Meera Dass and Saurabh Popli

VAGARTH: BLF Presentation: Women Leadership in the 21st Century: An imperative, Gitanjali J Angmo in conversation with Shalini Mahajan

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

ANTARANG: Energy Transition for India: Anil  Kumar Jain, Vikram Mehta and Manu Srivastava in conversation with Dr Rajat Kathuria

ABHIRANG: Cultural Connectivity, Dr Sachchidanand Joshi , C Rajasekhar and Shaurya Doval in conversation with P K Dash

 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

ANTARANG - VAGARTH FORECOURT: Bamboo Ensemble from Dindori, Eco Tunes Live Performance by Subhasis Sabyasachi & Team

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

ANTARANG: Managing Pakistan Without Getting Angry: Ajay Bisaria in conversation with Pankaj Saran

ABHIRANG: Legends Never Die: Eternal Greats, Irrfan Khan and Satish Kaushik: Mayank Shekhar in conversation with Dr Neelkamal Kapoor and Sathya Saran

 

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

ANTARANG: India's Five Trillion Dollar Economy: What It Takes: Rajat Kathuria, Madan Sabnavis and Rajan Katoch in conversation with Raghav Chandra

ABHIRANG: BLF Presentation: Resilience, the lives of India's disabled soldiers by Ambreen Zaidi. Moderated by Ranjeeta Sahay Ashesh

VAGARTH: Is our Constitution a Colonial Legacy?  Shlok Chandra in conversation with and Dr Surya Prakash

4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

ANTARANG: The Stories Behind Tiger Conservation, Gargi Rawat and Latika Nath and Raghav Chandra in conversation with Deshdeep Saxena

ABHIRANG: Shivaji: India's Great Warrior King, Vaibhav Purandare in conversation with Nandini Sen Gupta and Dr Sachchidanand Joshi

VAGARTH: Emotional Intelligence for Enlightened Leadership: Dr Dalip Singh in conversation with Rashmi Bhargava

5:00 PM - 5:50 PM

ANTARANG: China, Forever Enemy or Potential Friend? Jayadeva Ranade and Pankaj Saran in conversation with Brig Sanjay Agarwal

ABHIRANG: BLF Presentation: Is There Any Virtue in Laziness? by Indrajit Hazra. Moderated by Bhaskar Indrakanti

VAGARTH: Fireside Chat: Sports Marketing the Billion Dollar Opportunity: Tarun Mehrishi in conversation with Jyoti Pande

6:00 PM - 6:50 PM

ANTARANG: In the Language of Remembering, The Inheritance of Partition, Aanchal Malhotra in conversation with  Dr Seema Raizada

ABHIRANG: Human Rights and Protecting the Child by Dr Veerendra Mishra Moderated by Dr Neha Jain

VAGARTH: Creating Public Art Places: Dr Sachchidanand Joshi in conversation with Dr Rima Hooja

7:00 PM - 7:50 PM

ANTARANG: Rahein na Rahein hum, Mehka Karenge, the Timeless Legacy of Lata Mangeshkar, Dr Mrudula Dadhe Joshi in conversation with Pankaj Saxena

 

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ANTARANG: Dance Offerings from Brahmaputra Valley - Kalabhumi Dance group of Padmashree Indira PP Bora & Dr. Menaka PP Bora. Award ceremony and Valedictory function

3:30 PM - 7:30 PM

KAVYARANG: Students’ Live Poetry Recitation 
By Contest Winning School (9 to 12) and College Students

11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Forecourt in front of Adivasi Art Gallery: Vernacular Gond Paintings: Exhibition and Demonstration by Radheyshyam Kherwar of Wasimkhar village, Balaghat

Note: Schedule is subject to changes
Disclaimer : The speakers are solely responsible for the views expressed by them during the festival and the society is not liable for them.

How To Reach Event Location

  The nearest airport is Bhopal, which is 12 KMs away.


  The nearest convenient railway station is Bhopal, which is 3 KMs away.


  The nearest major city is Bhopal, which is 3KMs away.

The Society for Culture & Environment will hold the fourth edition of 'Heartland Stories — Bhopal Literature and Art Festival 2022 as a physical cum virtual event, between 25-27th March 2022.

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