Meet Asha-San. Lt Bharati 'Asha' Sahay Choudhry of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, INA. Author of The War Diary of Asha-San. Join Anita Nair (Novelist) and Tanvi Srivastava (Translator) in conversation with Asha-San and her son, Sanjay Choudhry. Read More..

Dr. Roopa Satish is a wildlife veterinarian for over 13 years. Her book is full of heartwarming stories about her personal experiences with animals ranging from the Slender Loris to the Spectacled Cobra, and is a veritable treasure of information regarding wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.    Her co-author Anitha Murthy is a writer.    The event will include a book reading followed by a Q and A session with the authors.   Read More..

At 6.00pm we have "Let's Get Irreal!": Kuzhali Manickavel, author of Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, Things We Found During the Autopsy, and Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man will be in person at Atta Galatta and in video conversation with Daisy Rockwell, artist and award-winning translator of Geetanjali Shree's Hindi novel Tomb of Sand. They will be talking about Kuzhali Manickavel's writing and delve into its many layers, like excavators.    At 8.00pm, Rakesh Khanna, Blaft editor and co-auth Read More..

After discovering she’s lesbian and dyslexic at 20, Vaishali begins to untangle her anxieties around reading and writing while she develops new anxieties from being closeted and living in a country that criminalized homosexuality at the time. In 2015, at 22, she comes out to her mother which makes her leave her parent’s house in Bombay. She moves to Ahmedabad where she suffers a break-up and struggles with unemployment. When she can't make rent, she is happy to join a Master's program at a public university in Hyderabad, where she can live rent-free in the hostel. In Read More..

Join author Roopa Pai in conversation with Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla, authors of Rethink Ageing and co-founders, Silver Talkies

A ground-breaking modelling gig at 70, becoming a globetrotting sports photographer at 60, a self-taught artist in her seventies, a mountaineer in her late 60s, a newly minted PhD at 75, cycling cross country at 71 -- these are not outliers or uber-achievers but older adults who haven't let age stop their passion and ambition.   Read More..