Recent Events
Tuesday, 10 Dec, 2024
Conversation with Rachna Bisht Rawat
Rachna Bisht Rawat is the author of six books by Penguin Random House India, including the bestsellers The Brave and Kargil. She lives in Gurugram with Hukum the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed golden retriever; an eclectic collection of books and music; and Manoj Rawat, the man in olive green, who met her when he was a gentleman cadet at the Indian Military Academy and offered to be her comrade for life. Occasionally, they are visited by Saransh the wise, who has moved out to explore the world on his own.
Saturday, 19 Oct, 2024
Conversation with Sohini Chattopadhyay
Sohini Chattopadhyay is a journalist, writer and National Award-winning film critic. Her work has been translated into German, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu and Malayalam. She is a recipient of the New India Foundation fellowship, and has been bestowed the Ramnath Goenka prize for feature writing, the Human Rights Press Awards citation in Hong Kong among several other awards. Her writing is archived on her website.
Sunday, 29 Sep, 2024
Conversation with Vaibhav Purandare
Vaibhav Purandare is the author of the acclaimed Shivaji: India’s Great Warrior King, Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva, Hitler and India: The Untold Story of His Hatred for the Country and Its People, Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography and Bal Thackeray & the Rise of the Shiv Sena. He works as a senior journalist.
Sunday, 02 Jun, 2024
Conversation with Ajai Chowdhry
When I left Jabalpur, the small town where I grew up, to pursue a career, I could not have dreamt that I would find myself at the vanguard of pathbreaking revolutions that would transform India.
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VLF is the first and only literary festival dedicated exclusively to non-fiction writing in English in India. We host immersive conversations on wide-ranging contextual and contemporary subjects. VLF brings together the most interesting authors and speakers from the world of non-fiction literature to the city of Nagpur.
The first edition of the Vidarbha Literary Festival was held at the Chitnavis Centre, Nagpur, in February 2020, where the audience experienced a world-class literary event complete with an impressive line-up of authors, book stalls, cultural events and informal interactions with authors.
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