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

Virtual Festival
Real Books

Live on YouTube, Facebook,
Twitter & Instagram

Speakers

  • Emanuela Sabbatini

    Italy

    Emanuela  is the President and Co-founder of AFLIN. It implements projects of sensitisation, education, training and health, meant especially for women and children.

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  • Eshkol Nevo

    Israel

    Eshkol Nevo is the author of best-selling and prize winning novels, ‘Homesick’, ‘World Cup Wishes’, ‘Neuland’, ‘Three Floors Up’ and ‘The Last Interview’.

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  • Frédérick Lavoie

    Canada

    Frédérick is a nonfiction writer and a freelance foreign correspondent. He has lived in Russia, India and the United States and has reported from more than 30 countries for various Canadian and European media.

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  • Gauri Sinh

    India

    Gauri is the former Editor of ‘Bombay Times’ and ‘DNA After Hrs’. Her latest crime thriller, ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ (2019) is out now.

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  • Gayatri Rangachari-Shah

    India

    Gayatri is an author and journalist. She is co-author of ‘Changemakers: 20 Women Transforming Bollywood Behind the Scenes’.

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  • George Jose

    India

    George is Associate Dean of the Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts (JDSoLA) and Associate Professor, NMIMS deemed University, Mumbai.

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  • Govindraj Ethiraj

    Govindraj is a television and print journalist, and an entrepreneur whose ventures are safeguarding the transparency, accuracy, and integrity of the internet in general.

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  • Hari Krishnan

    USA / Canada

    Hari is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. His research areas include colonialism, post-colonialism and Indian dance, Bharatanatyam in…

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  • Harish Bhat

    India

    Harish is an author, columnist and marketer. He works with the Tata Group, where he began his career 32 years ago.

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  • Hindol Sengupta

    India

    Hindol is an award-winning author of nine books. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and has been a senior journalist with the Indian edition of ‘Fortune’…

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  • Hrishi K

    INDIA

    Hrishikesh Kannan popularly known Hrishi K, is producer and presenter on the nation’s biggest breakfast radio show on 94.3 RadioOne.

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  • Humra Quraishi

    India

    Humra is a Delhi-based writer, columnist, journalist.

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  • Ian Jack

    England

    Ian Jack is a British writer and journalist and a former editor of the ‘Independent on Sunday’ and the literary magazine ‘Granta’.

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  • István Vörös

    Hungary

    Writer, poet, professor of literature and creative writing, István is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Budapest's Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

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  • Janhavi Samant

    India

    Janhavi is a pukka Mumbai girl. A journalist with over 18 years of experience, she launched her debut novel, ‘Faaltugiri and Other Flashbacks’ - a book about growing up in the 80s and the world of Bombay - a couple of months ago.

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  • Jay Panda

    India

    Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda is National Vice President and Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been a four time Member of Parliament of India. He was elected twice…

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  • Jayant Kaikini

    Jayant Kaikini is a Kannada poet, short-story writer, columnist and playwright, as well as an award-winning lyricist, script and dialogue writer.

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  • Jerry Pinto

    India

    Jerry is an author who lives and works in Mumbai and finds it increasingly tedious to sum himself up in a hundred words. However, he keeps trying.

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