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 session
Inauguration by Javed Akhtar
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Shaayri, Kobita view session
Javed 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 session
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Cheyenne Olivier discuss their illustrated cookbook with Anuvab Pal
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A Rude Life view session
Vir Sanghvi discusses his memoirs with Sandip Roy
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Deadliner Daak view session
Chandril 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 session
Samik 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 session
EP 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 session
Vir 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 session
Javed 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 session
Seema Goswami discusses her thriller series. In conversation with Malavika Banerjee
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6.50 pm
Usha-The Queen of Indian Pop view session
Usha 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 Hochchey
Stand-up comedy by Cyrus Broacha and Anuvab Pal
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Har Ek Pal Ka Shayar view session
Javed 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 session
Anuvab 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 session
Remo Fernandes in conversation with Arka Das
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Waqt view session
Javed Akhtar presents an interpretation of his acclaimed poem by Sangeeta Datta
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Dongri Dons to Mafia Queens view session
S. 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 session
Mallika Sarabhai and Jim Sarbh in conversation with Shrayana Bhattacharya
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Raag Desh
Classical 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 session
Arunava Sinha, Gourahari Das and Debanjan Chakrabarti in conversation with Padmini Ray Murray
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Aw Kinchit view session
Anindya Chattopadhyay in conversation with Prithwi Bose and Rwitobroto Mukherjee (Bangla Session)
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Has The Web Series Kidnapped The Thriller? view session
Krishnan Srinivasan and Anuvab Pal in conversation with Pratiti Ganatra
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Soumitra Smriti view session
Madhabi 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 session
Gautam 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 session
Rijula Das in conversation with Supriya Newar
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Names of the women view session
Jeet Thayil in conversation with Sandip Roy
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Sketches from France view session
Nicolas 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 Play
Raghu 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 India
Ajoy 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 session
Jayanta 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-Bharatnatyam
Bharatnatyam performance by Mallika Sarabhai
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Watershed view session
Mridula Ramesh and Bikram Grewal on India’s water crisis. In conversation with Labonita Ghosh
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Early Indians view session
Tony Joseph on the migrations that made India. In conversation with Sujaan Mukherjee
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Mahanagarer Nayak view session
Dhritiman 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 session
Ruskin 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 session
Sayandeb 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 session
Amish looks back at his trailblazing start in writing. In conversation with Sidharth Pansari
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The Raja Who Painted Maharajas view session
Manu Pillai on the princes of India through the works of Ravi Verma. In conversation with Priyadarshinee Guha
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Priyo Diary view session
Nilanjan 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 session
Sukanta Chaudhuri discusses his new book with Semanti Ghosh (Bangla Session)
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Rediscovering the Wilderness view session
Bikram 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 session
Kunal Basu discusses his new book with Raghu Karnad and Malavika Banerjee
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It Is Far More Than A Game, This Cricket
Pradeep 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 India
Premiere of Ajoy Bose’s Documentary
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Italian Brahmins to Firpos view session
Manu Pillai, Isabelle Nardi and Gianluca Rubagotti on Italian footprints across India. In conversation with Sujaan Mukherjee
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Mancha-Chitrer Brittanto view session
Suman Mukhopadhyay, Kaushik Sen, Anirban Bhattacharya and Aveek Majumder. Launch of Suman Mukhopadhyay’s book (Bangla Session)
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Ray’s Way view session
Mohan 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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HMT
Hollis Coats, Sandeep Madhavan and Jeet Thayil in performance
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8 pm
Samayer Smritimala
Screening 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 session
Ratnaboli 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 session
Shrayana Bhattacharya in conversation with Paroma Roy Chowdhury
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Amish At Large view session
Amish 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 session
Gautam 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 session
Ghazala Wahab discusses her award-winning book with Jashodhara Chakraborti
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Labannakto view session
Anita Agnihotri in conversation with Aparajita Dasgupta (Bangla Session)
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Kabul, Kyiv and Us view session
Nicolas 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 session
Sukanta 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 session
Bachi 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 session
Samantak 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 session
Bachi 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 session
R. 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 session
Simi Grewal discusses her work in Satyajit Ray’s and Mrinal Sen’s films. In conversation with Jayabrato Chatterjee
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Kalam 2022 Finale
Classical sitar recital by Ustad Shujaat Khan