Kolkata Literary Meet (Kalam) – the city’s annual date with books and ideas, is back in its tenth edition. Browse through the schedule below, bookmark the dates and look forward to a stimulating literary week.
Event Schedule
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 Inauguration view sessionInauguration by Javed Akhtar 
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 Shaayri, Kobita view sessionJaved Akhtar’s poetry, Srijato’s translations. Readings and conversation with Sangeeta Datta. Launch of Bangla translation of Javed Akhtar’s anthology 
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  Cooking to Save Your Life view sessionAbhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Cheyenne Olivier discuss their illustrated cookbook with Anuvab Pal 
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 A Rude Life view sessionVir Sanghvi discusses his memoirs with Sandip Roy 
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 Deadliner Daak view sessionChandril Bhattacharya, Srijato and Anupam Roy discuss the challenges of writing columns and recording vlogs. On Time. In conversation with Agnijit Sen (Bangla Session) 
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                                2.30 pm
  Amaar Rai view sessionSamik Bandyopadhyay on his personal reading of Satyajit Ray. In conversation with Aparajita Dasgupta (Bangla Session) 
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                                3.20 pm
  An UnCommon Man view sessionEP Unny and Rahul DaCunha* discuss RK Laxman’s legacy on his centenary. In conversation with Balaji Vittal (Rahul DaCunha will join online) 
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                                4.20 pm
  The Write Recipe view sessionVir Sanghvi, Ritu Dalmiya* and Mita Kapur on the joys of writing and reading food. In conversation with Monideepa Banerjie (Ritu Dalmiya will join online) 
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                                5.10 pm
  Kitney Aadmi The view sessionJaved Akhtar and Balaji Vittal discuss Vittal’s Pure Evil and the bad men of Hindi cinema. In conversation with RJ Arvind 
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                                6 pm
 Imagining Race Course Road view sessionSeema Goswami discusses her thriller series. In conversation with Malavika Banerjee 
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                                6.50 pm
  Usha-The Queen of Indian Pop view sessionUsha Uthup speaks about her musical journey with biographer Vikas Jha and Srishti Jha. In conversation with Shantanu Datta 
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                                7.30 pm
 Khela HochcheyStand-up comedy by Cyrus Broacha and Anuvab Pal 
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  Har Ek Pal Ka Shayar view sessionJaved Akhtar on the relevance of Sahir Ludhianvi’s poetry in his centenary year. In conversation with Mudar Patherya 
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  Hanste Tader Mana view sessionAnuvab Pal and Cyrus Broacha on laughter and humour as a survival kit in pandemic times. In conversation with Sandip Roy 
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  Remo Unplugged view sessionRemo Fernandes in conversation with Arka Das 
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 Waqt view sessionJaved Akhtar presents an interpretation of his acclaimed poem by Sangeeta Datta 
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 Dongri Dons to Mafia Queens view sessionS. Hussain Zaidi discusses his work and fascination with the murky side of Mumbai. In conversation with Labonita Ghosh 
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  Rocket Boys-Real and Reel Stories view sessionMallika Sarabhai and Jim Sarbh in conversation with Shrayana Bhattacharya 
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 Raag DeshClassical music performance by Ustad Rashid Khan, poetry by Srijato 
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  Large Short Films Matinee
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  Publishing, Translations and Festivals view sessionArunava Sinha, Gourahari Das and Debanjan Chakrabarti in conversation with Padmini Ray Murray 
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 Aw Kinchit view sessionAnindya Chattopadhyay in conversation with Prithwi Bose and Rwitobroto Mukherjee (Bangla Session) 
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 Has The Web Series Kidnapped The Thriller? view sessionKrishnan Srinivasan and Anuvab Pal in conversation with Pratiti Ganatra 
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  Soumitra Smriti view sessionMadhabi Mukherjee, Poulomi Bose, Suman Mukhopadhyay and discuss the theatre, cinema and other roles of Soumitra Chatterjee. In conversation with Sanchari Mookherjee (Bangla Session) 
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 The East Bengal Century view sessionGautam Roy discusses the football and the history of the maidan titan. In conversation with Debanjan Chakrabarti 
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 A Death in Sonagachchi view sessionRijula Das in conversation with Supriya Newar 
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 Names of the women view sessionJeet Thayil in conversation with Sandip Roy 
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 Sketches from France view sessionNicolas Wild, Cheyenne Olivier discuss the illustrated narrative and cartoon culture in Paris. In conversation with Pinaki De 
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 Girish Karnad’s This Life At PlayRaghu Karnad, Mohan Agashe and Arshia Sattar* on the plays, the films, the writings, the man. In conversation with Debnita Chakravarti (Arshia Sattar will join online) 
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 The Beatles And IndiaAjoy Bose on his documentary on the Fab Four’s tryst with India. In conversation with Gautam Bhimani 
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 Victoria Memorial Shatabdi view sessionJayanta Sengupta, Bachi Karkaria, Anindya Chattopadhyay and Agnijit Sen discuss Kolkata’s romance with the memorial across generations. In conversation with Poorna Banerjee 
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 Mallika-e-BharatnatyamBharatnatyam performance by Mallika Sarabhai 
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  Watershed view sessionMridula Ramesh and Bikram Grewal on India’s water crisis. In conversation with Labonita Ghosh 
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 Early Indians view sessionTony Joseph on the migrations that made India. In conversation with Sujaan Mukherjee 
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  Mahanagarer Nayak view sessionDhritiman Chatterjee, Barun Chanda* and Pradeep Mukherjee on debuting as protagonists in Ray’s City Trilogy. In conversation with Riddhi Sen (Barun Chanda will join online) (Bangla Session) 
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 The Spirits of India view sessionRuskin Bond* and Rakesh Khanna discuss ghosts, spirits and monsters. In conversation with Sandip Roy (Mr Bond will join online) 
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 Bengal Cinema and the National Gaze view sessionSayandeb Chowdhury, Amitava Nag discuss their biographies of Uttam Kumar and Tapan Sinha. In conversation with Sangeeta Datta 
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  The Shiva Trilogy – A Decade Later view sessionAmish looks back at his trailblazing start in writing. In conversation with Sidharth Pansari 
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 The Raja Who Painted Maharajas view sessionManu Pillai on the princes of India through the works of Ravi Verma. In conversation with Priyadarshinee Guha 
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 Priyo Diary view sessionNilanjan Bandyopadhyay, Arunava Sinha and Khan Ruhul Rubel* on being chroniclers of a place. In conversation with Madhuja Banerjee (Khan Ruhul Rubel will join online) (Bangla Session) 
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 Bhasha Artha Satya view sessionSukanta Chaudhuri discusses his new book with Semanti Ghosh (Bangla Session) 
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  Rediscovering the Wilderness view sessionBikram Grewal and Bittu Sehgal* on whether the pandemic has changed the way Indians look at nature. In conversation with Sumit Sen (Bittu Sehgal will join online) 
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 In An Ideal World view sessionKunal Basu discusses his new book with Raghu Karnad and Malavika Banerjee 
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 It Is Far More Than A Game, This CricketPradeep Magazine discusses how cricket and India have changed and remained the same over the decades. In conversation with Rahul Bhattacharya 
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                                6 pm
  Kalam Bioscope-The Beatles And IndiaPremiere of Ajoy Bose’s Documentary 
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 Italian Brahmins to Firpos view sessionManu Pillai, Isabelle Nardi and Gianluca Rubagotti on Italian footprints across India. In conversation with Sujaan Mukherjee 
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  Mancha-Chitrer Brittanto view sessionSuman Mukhopadhyay, Kaushik Sen, Anirban Bhattacharya and Aveek Majumder. Launch of Suman Mukhopadhyay’s book (Bangla Session) 
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 Ray’s Way view sessionMohan Agashe and Samik Bandyopadhyay on the sketches, the preparation and the methods behind Ray’s films . In conversation with Agnijit Sen 
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 HMTHollis Coats, Sandeep Madhavan and Jeet Thayil in performance 
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                                8 pm
 Samayer SmritimalaScreening of Goutam Ghose’s short film on the pandemic followed by a discussion with the director and Suman Mukhopadhyay (Bangla Session) 
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 Get Well Soon view sessionRatnaboli Ray and Kunal Sarkar discuss mental and physical health challenges during and beyond the pandemic. In conversation with Janet Gasper Chowdhury 
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  Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh view sessionShrayana Bhattacharya in conversation with Paroma Roy Chowdhury 
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 Amish At Large view sessionAmish Tripathi on writing, the pandemic and seeing India from outside and within. In conversation with Janet Gasper Chowdhury 
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  Large Short Films Matinee
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 Tennis Laboratory view sessionGautam Bhattacharya discusses his new book on the aces of tennis. In conversation with Chinmoy Guha (Bangla Session) 
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 Born A Muslim view sessionGhazala Wahab discusses her award-winning book with Jashodhara Chakraborti 
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 Labannakto view sessionAnita Agnihotri in conversation with Aparajita Dasgupta (Bangla Session) 
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 Kabul, Kyiv and Us view sessionNicolas Wild and Krishnan Srinivasan on the world’s warzones and our differing perceptions. In conversation with Paroma Roy Chowdhury 
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 Dante’s Divine Comedy-A 700-Year Journey view sessionSukanta Chaudhuri and Doyeeta Majumdar discuss the impact of one of the world’s greatest literary works on its 700th anniversary. In conversation with Samantak Das. Introduction by Gianluca Rubagotti 
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 Culture Club view sessionBachi Karkaria, Chandrahas Choudhury and Sandip Roy discuss writing about books, culture and owning one’s opinion in polarised times. In conversation with Debanjan Chakrabarti 
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  Ray Writes view sessionSamantak Das and Pinaki De discuss Ray’s writing gene. Readings of recently published stories by Ray by Dhritiman Chaterji bookend the discussion 
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 Nair’s Leela view sessionBachi Karkaria on the life, the times and the hotels of Capt. Nair. Nair In conversation with Malavika Banerjee 
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 Abanindranath@150 view sessionR. Siva Kumar and Jayanta Sengupta discuss the artist’s legacy and the collection of his works at Victoria Memorial. In conversation with Sujaan Mukherjee 
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  Two Maestros view sessionSimi Grewal discusses her work in Satyajit Ray’s and Mrinal Sen’s films. In conversation with Jayabrato Chatterjee 
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 Kalam 2022 FinaleClassical sitar recital by Ustad Shujaat Khan 
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