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The sixth edition of the Bhopal Literature and Art Festival 2024 will be a vibrant physical event at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal between 12-14th January 2024


Events

Events &
Program Schedule

Program Schedule

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.

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