The Eleventh Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Monday, November 16th to Sunday, November 22nd 2020

Virtual Festival
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Purva Naresh

India

Purva is a playwright and a theatre producer. She has ten full length plays, three shorts, three feature films and two web series as a writer, to her credit. She has collaborated with Bake House Australia and Curve Theatre, UK, on ‘Jatinga’ and ‘The Pink Saree Revolution’. Her other plays include, ‘Ok Tata Bye Bye’, ‘Aaj Rang Hai’, ‘Preth’, ‘Bandish’ and ‘Ladies Sangeet’. She received the Bismillah Khan Award from the Government of India and in 2012, the Ladli Media award for the best play on gender sensitisation.

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Staging Life

Panel Discussions Sunday, 17th Nov 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Godrej Theatre - NCPA

Playwrights as anthropologists.

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  • A C Grayling

    England

    A C Grayling CBE, is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s…

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  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Scotland

    A former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Alexander has written more than 100 books. He is best known for ‘The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’…

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  • Ambarish Satwik

    India

    Ambarish is a Delhi-based vascular surgeon and writer. His debut novel ‘Perineum: Nether Parts of the Empire’, a rogue, fictive sexual history of the British Raj, was published in…

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  • Amrita Mahale

    India

    Amrita is the author of the novel ‘Milk Teeth’. Her writing has appeared in ‘Hindustan Times’, ‘Scroll’, ‘Himal Southasian’ and ‘Brown Paper Bag’. Amrita was trained as an aerospace…

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