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Practising my Lit Fest Look at the Tollygunge Club, Kolkata |
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The first edition of the Times Lit Fest Kolkata
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A report on the Times Lit Fest in the Times of India, Kolkata. Imagine tiny me being a tailender in the same page line up as Mr Bond, Shankar and the ‘Prince of Calcoota’ |
A fun day at Blandings
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Flanked by Sanjoo Malhotra and Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey at the Times Lit Fest Kolkata |
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Jhimli Mukhrjee Pandey sets the ball rolling |
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Ghorer chhele ghore eshechhe. Enjoying some good Bengali nosh with Gautam Nandy at the Time Lit Fest Author’s Corner at the Tollygunge Club |
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Foodie chat with Shankar |
Mr Sinha made an excellent point about the fact that it is time to realise that ‘translations’ actually represent a literary genre of their own and are not just a mere technical process. My wife loves the works of Marquez and Murakami and that’s all thanks to the writers who brought their words alive in English. So I completely get what Mr Sinha said. He brought Chowringhee alive for me after all.
Shankar told me about the two books that he has written in Bengali on food. He told me that he hopes that the genre of food writing develops and grows in India and said that he felt that it was still not given the importance that it should. He then added, “but one cannot be a critic if one is invited by a restaurant to write. One has to go out by oneself to discover gems.”
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The book that started it all Order link for The Travelling Belly |
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Times of India Kolkata |
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With my mashi and mesho (aunt and her husband) and my mother It was great to have the people, because of whom I am what I am today, with me |
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My childhood friend from Kolkata, Joydev Sengupta, was there and that meant so much to me |
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Film maker Onir, a fellow Bombay Bangali, was at my session and next morning we exchanged notes on his session and mine when we bumped into each other at breakfast at the JW Marriott buffet |
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Alokeparna Ghosh whom I met through the blogging circuit and who has been most supportive and kind |
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Ranjini Guha, my college alumni, who had earlier in the year invited me to speak at the US consulate’s history society meet |
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It was lovely to see my college mate Shubhojit there His team was managing the event logistics and seeing him at the start reminded me of Milieu, our college fest at Presidency |
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We were put up at the JW Marriott Kolkata, by Times Lit Fest and here are some pictures of the lovely room that I was in.