10th Anniversary Edition of Goa Arts & Literature Festival - 2019

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE Programme is subject to change, for updated schedule refer to www.goaartlitfest.com
Date Venue Time Programme Featuring
Performance: Konkani Lok Dhoon - Goan Folk Music
5.00 pm -5.25 pm Ravindra Kelekar Dnyanmandir
Medley
Hosted by Jose Lourenco
Pushkar, Director - The International Centre Goa
Damodar Mauzo, Co-curator - GALF, fiction writer &
member - Goa Writers
Keynote Address:
Why we should all speak up - and what happens
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Inaugural function when we do
Laran by Priya Ramani, veteran journalist, editor and
Amphitheatre commentator
05-Dec Lawn, ICG Keynote Address:
Readers and Writers: Evolving Equations
by Harish Trivedi, reputed scholar
Unveiling of GALF artwork created by Savia Viegas,
versatile author / artist
6:35 pm - 6:50 pm Exclusive Poetry reading Salil Chaturvedi
6:55 pm - 7:45 pm Flashpoint 2019: One Nation, One Narrative? Naresh Fernandes, Patricia Mukhim and Amita
Kanekar in conversation with Samar Halarnkar

Laran
Amphitheatre 8:30 pm onwards Welcome dinner with cocktails for official delegates
Lawn,ICG

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 Date Venue Time Programme Featuring
06-Dec Laran Annexe, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Young GALF 2019 Sessions Conducted by Bookworm Goa

Masood Hussain and Nandita Haksar in conversation

10:00 am - 10:40 am Flashpoint 2019: Morning in Kashmir?
with David Devadas
Ivo de Figueredo in conversation with Chandrahas
Mandovi Hall, 10:45 am - 11:25 am Book Launch: A Stranger at my Table
06-Dec Choudhury
ICG
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Book Launch: A song for Saligao Clarice Vaz in conversation with Heta Pandit
Tony Joseph and Priyamvada Gopal in conversation
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm Flashpoint 2019: Imperilled Democracy ?
with Dilip D'Souza
Date Venue Time Programme Featuring
Heta Pandit, Eddie Fernandes and Ibha Gupta, Goa
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Book Launch: The Matata Trilogy
Heritage Action Group
Arjun Subramaniam in conversation with Arun
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm India Wars
Prakash
Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with
2:45 pm - 3:25 pm Book Launch: Love without a story
Abhay Sardesai
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm Book Discussion: Early Indians Tony Joseph in conversation with Namit Arora
Mandovi Hall,
06-Dec Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with Samar
ICG 4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Book Discussion: But You Don't Look Like a Muslim
Halarnkar
Prajwal Parajuly, Anungla Zoe Longkumer and Mitra
5:05 pm - 6:00 pm Ways of Belonging: India 'Beyond the Ganges'
Phukan in conversation with Samrat X
GALF 2019 Ambedkar Memorial Lecture: Ambedkar
6:05 pm - 7:00 pm Anand Teltumbde
and Democracy

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 10:00 am - 10:30 am Book Launch: Henrik Ibsen Translated Astri Ghosh in conversation with Ivo de Figueiredo

Victor Rodrigues Nunes, Mangalesh Dabral, Gabriel

10:35 am - 11:15 am Multilingual Poetry Readings
Rosenstock and Sudeep Sen
Rita Kothari and Vivek Shanbhag in conversation
11:20 am - 12:00 pm Translation Matters: Expanding the Canon
with Mini Krishnan
Sunanda Mehta in conversation with Nirmala
12:05 pm - 12:45 pm The Extraordinary Life & Death of Sunanda Pushkar
Govindarajan
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm The Unremembered: Indian Soldiers of World War II Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
06-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG Nirmala Govindarajan in conversation with Jerry
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm Book Launch: Taboo
Pinto and Antara Dev Sen
Saee Koranne in conversation with Fatima Silva
2:45 pm - 3:25 pm Book Launch: Pangat
Gracias
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Literary Lives Mridula Garg in conversation with Supriya Nair
Keki Daruwalla in conversation with Arundhathi
4:25 pm - 5:15 pm Literary Lives
Subramaniam
Damyanti Biswas, Meenal Shrivastava, Parimal
5:20 pm - 6:00 pm Finding a Voice: Debutants Gandhi and Sanjay Dharwadker in conversation with
Usha Alexander

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 10:00 am - 11:00 am Film: Saxtticho Koddo: The Granary of Salcete Vince Costa in conversation with Arti Das
Philosophy of Music in the contest of profound Art-
11:05 am - 11:45 pm Ritwik Sanyal
Music of Dhrupad
Art Presentation: Raja Ravi Verma and the art of
11:55 am - 12:30 pm Vidya Kamat
intervention
12:35 pm - 1:15 pm Presentation: Walk with Gandhi Gabriel Rosenstock and Masood Hussain
Raga Olga D'silva, Ethel da Costa and Rajorshi
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Live Readings
Chakraborthy in conversation with Jugneeta Sadan
Abolim Hall,
06-Dec
ICG
Presentation: Notes from beyond words: select book
2:05 pm - 2:45 pm Saba Hasan
sculptures, text installations and videos

2:50 pm - 3:30 pm Book Launch: The Sixth River Maaz Bin Bilal in conversation with Rita Kothari

3:35 pm - 4:20 pm Poetry Readings Rochelle Potkar and Sanket Mhatre

4.25 pm - 5:05 pm Flashpoint 2019: Pakistan Tilak Devasher in conversation David Devadas
Derek Mascarenhas in conversation with Suneeta
5:10 pm - 6:00 pm Book Launch: Coconut Dreams
Peres Da Costa

Date Venue Time Programme Featuring

Laran
06-Dec Amphitheatre 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Performance: Talaash - The Band of Seekers, Folk-pop band
Lawn, ICG

Laran Annexe,
07-Dec 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Young GALF 2019 Sessions Conducted by Bookworm Goa
ICG
Rang Karnad: play reading session - Tribute to Girish Aruna Ganu, Ramita Gurav, Mamata Verelekar and
07-Dec Zuiyo Lawns 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Karnad by Dhaee Aakhar Goa Dattaprasad Shetkar; moderated by Arati Das

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 Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Neeraj Amarnani in
9:25 am - 9:55 am Book Launch: HDFC Bank 2.0
conversation with Ashley Dmello
Niraja Jayal, Anand Teltumbde and Nandita Haksar
10:00 am - 10:40 am Reforming India
in conversation with Naresh Fernandes

10:45 am - 11:25 am Literary Lives Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with Keshava Guha

11:30 am - 12:10 pm Book Launch: Accidental Magic Keshava Guha in conversation with Samhita Arni

12:15 pm - 12:55 pm Literary Lives: How we began In conversation: M. Mukundan and Sethumadhavan

Priyamvada Gopal in conversation with R Benedito

Mandovi Hall, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm Book Launch: Insurgent Empire
07-Dec Ferrao
ICG
Chandrahas Choudhury and Prajwal Parajuly in
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm Finding a Voice: The Novelists
conversation with Samhita Arni
2:45 pm - 3:25 pm Rivers Remember: The Climate Change Catastrophe Krupa Ge in conversation with Supriya Nair
Sivakami and Martin Macwan in conversation with
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm Ways of Belonging: Inclusion
Samar Halarnkar
4:15 pm - 4:55 pm Finding a Voice: The New Afghanistan Omaid Sharifi in conversation with Kaustubh Naik

5:00 pm - 5:40 pm Literary Lives Rita Chowdhury in conversation Jugneeta Sudan

Ranjit Hoskote, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Sumana

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Poetry Readings
Roy and Mustansir Dalvi

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 Prajal Sahrakardande and Celsa Pinto in conversation
9:30 am - 9:55 am Exclusive Launch: Parmal 2019
with Raya Shankhwalker and Heta Pandit
10:00 am - 10:40 am Book Launch: Goa Gold Goa Silver Prajal Sahrakardande
Miniya Chatterji in conversation with Patricia Pereira
10:45 am - 11:25 am Presentation: Indian Instincts
Sethi
07-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG 11:30 am - 12:10 pm Mridula Garg: The Last Email Mridula Garg in conversation with Antara Dev Sen
Bilingual Book Launch: 'Struggles with Imagined
12:15 pm - 12:55 pm Mustansir Dalvi and Hemant Divate
Gods and other poems '
Victor Rodriguez Nunez, Katherine M. Hedeen and
1:00 pm - 1:40 pm Bilingual Book Launch: Inverse
Hemant Divate
1:45 pm - 2:25 pm Presentation: Shakespeare in Indian Cinema Poonam Trivedi in conversation with Kiran Budkuley

Date Venue Time Programme

2:30 pm - 3:10 pm Samhita Arni: The Prince Samhita Arni in conversation with Ranjit Hoskote

3:15 pm - 3:55 pm Abdullah Khan: Patna Blues Abdullah Khan in conversation with Mustansir Dalvi
Dhruba Hazarika, Mona Zote and Mamang Dai in
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm Finding a Voice: The Margins?
conversation with Samrat X
Priya Kuriyan and Nishant Saldanha in conversation
07-Dec Zuari Hall, ICG 4:45 pm - 5:25 pm Finding a Voice: Representation?
Aniruddha Sen Gupta
Clara Astarloa and Mangalesh Dabral in conversation
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Book Launch: Mandalay
with Brian Mendonca
Sujatha Fernandes and Ivo de Figueredo in
6:05 pm - 6:45 pm Goa Diaspora: Where is Home?
conversation with Suneeta Peres da Costa
V Srinivas, Harshad Pore and Alfred Almeida in
6:50 pm - 7:30 pm Finding a Voice: Why write?
conversation with Rachna Patni

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 9:30 am - 11:30 am Film: Meshampur Akshay Singh
11:35 am - 12:15 pm Book Launch: Cities and Canopies Seema Mundoli in conversation with Krupa Ge
Amruta Patil in conversation with Arundhathi
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Book Launch: Aranyaka
Subramaniam
Dhruv Bogra and Piya Bahadur in conversation with
1:05 pm - 1:45 pm Finding a Voice: On The Road
Aniruddha Sen Gupta
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm Book Launch: How do you know what you know ? Janki Santoke
2:25 pm - 2:55 pm Book Launch: Ramayana Book of Life Shubha Vilas
Abolim Hall,
07-Dec 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Remembering Nabaneeta Dev Sen Antara Dev Sen
ICG
Maaz Bin Bilal, Rochelle Potkar, Rochelle Dsilva and
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm Poetry Readings
Mona Zote
Nupur Anand, Akanksha Mittal in conversation with
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Finding a Voice: The Inner Guide
Rajorshi Chakraborti
5:05 pm - 5:45 pm Publishing Next: Where's the Literature in Literature Dilip D'souza, Sumana Roy, Astri Ghosh and
Festivals? Damodar Mauzo in conversation with Leonard
Fernandes
5:50 pm - 6:45 pm GALF 2019 Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Patricia Mukhim
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Performance: The Goa University Choir in Concert

Laran
Closing Dinner with cocktails for official delegates
07-Dec Amphitheatre 8:30 pm onwards
Lawn,ICG

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