Here is a list of the forty sessions that you can attend at the soon to start AKLF 2019.

1. Does Gandhi Still Matter?Ramachandra Guha with Tridib Suhrud.
2. More on Less: Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer in conversation with Priti Paul and Sandip Roy.
3. Love in a Time of Tinder: Romance Writing Today. Sudeep Nagarkar, Durjoy Datta, Ravinder Singh. Mod Milee Aishwarya.
4. The Great Indian Paradox:Shashi Tharoor in conversation with David Davidar.
5. The Illusion of Peace. A. S. Dulat in conversation with Farooq Abdullah.
6. Eyes Wide Shut –The Neta in Post-Truth India: Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Salil Tripathi. (Presented with Tollygunge Club)
7. Crossing the Line – Perspectives on the ‘Me Too’ Crisis: Anuja Chauhan, Ratna Pathak Shah, Shobhaa De, Anita Agnihotri, Shutapa Paul, Jayant Kripalani, Ruchir Joshi. Mod. Kavita Panjabi.
8. Speaking Truth to Power: Ravish Kumar unplugged.
9. Lives Lived: Anuradha Roy in conversation with Sandip Roy.
10. The Revenge of the Non-Vegetarian: Upamanyu Chatterjee in conversation with Jerry Pinto.
11. Sunehri Rait — Gold Dust of Begum Sultans: The culture of the Rampur Court. An exhibition inaugurated with a performance of Dastangoi, poetry, music, and dance. Exhibition curated by Ranesh Ray, audiovisual designed by Iffat Fatima, performance designed by Syeda Hameed. Performedby Zakia Zaheer, Rene Singh, Ghazala Amin and Rajiv Ashish. (Presented with Emami’s Kolkata Centre for Creativity and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Memorial Trust).
12. Sundays with Chitra and Chaitali: A dramatized reading. ‘From Mahabharata to Mumbai.’ Written and directed, with songs performed by, Isheeta Ganguly. Music by Pritam, Narration by Raima Sen. On stage: Prema Talwar, Gunjan Saini, Smita Chakraborty, Tushar Kawale.
13. A Motley Crew: Forty Years of a Theatre Group. Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah and Benjamin Gilani. Mod. Jayant Kripalani.
14. Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Food, Image and the Woman’s body. Featuring Rujuta Diwekar.
15. Shaken and Stirred: Global Litfests with a Twist. Ameena Saiyid, Michelle Garnaut, Julia Roberts, Sirish Rao. Mod. Meenakshi Alimchandani.
16. The Sarkar and the Musalman: Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Syeda Hameed. Mod Sundeep Bhutoria
17. Reality Bytes – Writing Fact into Fiction: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar in conversation with Anita Agnihotri.
18. Ishwar Allah Tero Naam: Gandhi’s secularism. Tridib Suhrud, Rajmohan Gandhi, Sugata Bose. Mod: Kavita Panjabi. (With Oxford University Press).
19. Of Rebel Princesses and Warrior Queens: Revisiting the Harem. Ira Mukhoty and Syeda Hameed. Mod. Malashri Lal
20. AmorItaliano: Lorenzo Angeloni in conversation withShobhaa De. Mod Oindrilla Dutt
21. Breaking the Language Barrier: Rohan Murthy talks translation with Arunava Sinha.
22. And the Award Goes To. . . Announcing the FirstPrabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award Winner. Jerry Pinto, Urvashia Butalia, Srijato,Anita Agnihotri, Sundeep Bhutoria, Anjum Katyal
23. Cover Story: The Book Cover Prize Shortlist:With members of the jury and city book designers.
24. Mirch Masala: Indian Flavours and the World: Mallika Basu, Chitrita Banerji, Julia Roberts.
25. Shortlist Shoo Sha: Literary awards and the Writer. Anuradha Roy, Ruchir Joshi and Saikat Mazumdar.
26. Everyone Loves a Good Fantasy: Ashwin Sanghi on writing pop mythological thrillers.
27. The Anuja Factor: Anuja Chauhan in conversation with Anjum Katyal.
28. Ancient Teachings, Modern Times: The Ramayana and Mahabharata: Devdutt Pattanaik with Jawhar Sircar
29. Boys Don’t Cry: Masculinity and Gender: Mahesh Dattani, Sandip Roy, Andrew Sean Greer. Mod: Jhuma Basak
30. The Dirty Picture: Reporting Reality. Siddharth Varadarajan and Kota Neelima. Mod Ruchir Joshi.
31. Achhe Din? Technology and the Nation: Ravi Agrawal in conversation with Meghdut Roy Chowdhury. Mod. Aveek Chanda.
32. Desi Shakespeare: Jonathon Gil Harris, Ananda Lal and Mahesh Dattani. With Debanjan Chakrabarti.
33. The Song of the Road: On Travel Writing. Ashwini Devare, Siddhartha Sarma, Prajwal Parajuly. Mod. Sirish Rao.
34. Drawing Local Histories – Three Approaches in Graphic Novels: Sarbajit Singh, Vidyun Sabhaney, Bhagwati Prasad, Mod Arundhati Ghosh (With India Foundation for the Arts)
35. A New Gaze: Change and theIndian Northeast. With Makepeace Sitlhou, Ronnie Nido and Huidrom Boicha Singh. Mod. Urvashi Butalia (With Zubaan and ??)
36. Bringing Up Baby: Children’s Writers and Gender sensitization. Paro Anand, Siddhartha Sarma, Ranjit Lal. Mod. Devi Kar
37. First Draft of History: Responsible Journalism Today. Saket Suman,John Zubryzki, Frankie Edozien, Ashwini Devare,Shutapa Paul(5×10). Mod. S. V. Raman
38. Epic Love and Lust – Mythology and the Indian Woman: Malashri Lal in conversation with Alka Pande. Mod Milee Aishwarya.