Mumbai
prepares itself for the 2nd edition of Asia’s largest non fiction
festival
Kiran Rao,
Ajit Balakrishnan and Subroto Bagchi to kick start the 2nd edition
of the India Non Fiction Festival
Mumbai,
January 2014: After
successfully hosting the inaugural edition of the India Non Fiction Festival,
which is Asia’s largest nonfiction festival, Mumbai once again gears up to
welcome the audience at the 2nd edition of this unique festival. To
be held from Friday, 24th January’14 to Sunday, 26th
January’14 at, Nehru Centre, Worli, the event will start from 12 pm and will
last till 7 pm everyday.
An unique aspect Get Booked: A chance to get published, the festival will offer an open platform to budding non-fiction
authors to talk directly about their work to prospective readers, publishers, and
literary agents and get their work published.
The 2nd edition of
the festival will offer a mix of engaging panel discussions on interesting and
untouched topics, and book launches. While audience will get the opportunity of
one-to-one interaction with eminent authors and practitioners during the panel
discussion, they will get to buy books and be a part of book signing sessions
during the launch of books.
The three days of the festival
will be packed with interesting and stimulating sessions from established
authors and eminent personalities in their respective genres. Kiran Rao, Ajit
Balakrishnan and Subroto Bagchi will began the first session of panel
discussion on the subject ‘India: Our Time is Now’ and touch upon the topics
like Youth, Society, Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Ambition. The festival will register the
presence of host of other renowned speakers, specialized in the wide range of
genres, such as sociologist Dipankar Gupta, spiritual guru Radhanath Swami, documentary
film makers Pankaj Butalia, Anil Zankar, ultra runner Rajat Chauhan, leader Meera
Sanyal, leadership and motivational speakers Priya Kumar, Sneha Mehta, and
Deepak Chatterjee, corporate executive R Gopalakrishnan, and media honcho Uday
Shankar.
Raghu Ram of roadies fame, chef
Vicky Ratnani, foodie Kunal Vijayakar, child psychologist Zirak Marker,
parenting expert Gouri Dange, authors Ashwin Sanghi, Geeta Anand, Jerry Pinto,
Naresh Fernandes, Hussain Zaidi, Shankkar Aiyar, Mini Menon, C Balagopal, Sudeep Chakravarti, Sidharth
Bhatia, Vaibhav Purandare, senior journalists and writers R Jagannathan, Sachin
Kalbag, Niranjan Rajadhaksha, Pradyuman Maheshwari, Indrajit Gupta, Peter
Griffin, and many other thinkers and writers will also be a part of the discussions
at the festival.
Some international authors who will participate at
the festival are Sumantra Bose, Rana Dasgupta, Somnath Batabyal and Faith
Johnston. The
subject of discussions will range from management, leadership, politics, economics, and sociology
to health, fitness, media, cinema, and food, including welfare, personal
development, motivational and inspirational, along with many more genres.
Another exciting feature of the event will be the exhibition of cartoons
and caricatures titled ‘The Politickle Pickle’ by editorial cartoonist Shreyas
Navare. The festival continues to serve as a platform for discussion and to
create awareness around important but often neglected citizen issues.
On these lines, the ‘National
Voters Day’ will be celebrated, along with panel discussions, exciting contests
and book launch related to the subject. On 26th January, the festival
shall also celebrate the Republic Day with a key panel discussion and contest.
Going to be a centre for several
book launches on diverse topics,
the festival caters to the reading needs of people from various age groups and
professional backgrounds such as students, business professionals, scholars,
homemakers, health & fitness enthusiasts, foodies, the spiritually inclined
and just about anyone interested in the various genres of the Non Fiction
world. The festival will mark the launch
of some exciting books on political topics such as The New Clash of Civilizations: How the Contest Between America, China,
India and Islam will Shape Our Century by author Minhaz Merchant, and Konjo: the fighting spirit by author Sandeep
Goyal. On the same lines Suraj Sriram’s Excuse
Me, Can We Have Our Country Back? and Sanjay Kumar’s Indian Youth and Electoral Politics: An Emerging Engagement will be
launched on the National Voters day.
Acting Smart: Your Ticket to Showbiz by
Tisca Chopra, Rules of the Game by
Sumit D Chowdhury and Magic Mantras: For
Young Adults to Achieve Success in Life by Laxmi Dhaul are some of the interesting
books to be launched on the Republic Day that ardent readers will
look forward.
Speaking about the occasion Kumaar Bagrodia, Festival Founder, India
Non Fiction Festival said, “After our successful inaugural edition in
Mumbai last year, we are now very excited to present the initiatives and
celebrations around Republic Day and National Voters Day, the various book
launches and very interesting and important works of our speakers to our audiences.”
Various chambers have collaborated
to organize this festival. Some of these are American Chamber of Commerce in India, Australia & New Zealand
Business Association in India, British Business Group, European Business Group,
Federation of Indi Israel Chambers of Commerce, Indo Canadian Business Chamber,
Indo French Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Indo Italian Chamber of
Commerce & Industry, Indian Merchants Chamber, Indo American Chamber, Beside these Mumbai First, Crossword Book Stores, Harper Collins, Jaico, Aiesec,
GiveIndia and many others are also partner of the India Non Fiction Festival.
For
registration, you can log on to www.IndiaNonFictionFestival.com
and avail free entry to the festival. Whereas the seats are limited, entry will
be on first come first serve basis.
