The much-awaited 13th Edition of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival commences tomorrow on 21st January and is to go on till 23rd January. AKLF2022 will also mark the beginning of the Centenary year celebrations for the iconic Oxford Bookstores. The three-day literary extravaganza presents a speaker and a guest lineup of more than 50 authors, journalists, influencers, thinkers, poets, international best-selling writers, and Bollywood actors. AKLF2022 will focus on fiction, non-fiction, gastronomy, mental and physical health, poetry, politics, current affairs, parenthood, translations, history, children’s and adult literature among other themes, through a total of 24 interactive sessions and as a special tribute to late Pandit Birju Maharaj Ji the festival has organised a performance *Shraddhanjali* by renowned dancer, Sohini Roy Chowdhury on the very first day of the festival from 7.30 pm.
AKLF2022 will be live-streamed on the official Facebook and YouTube handles of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival as well as across Oxford Bookstores.
Schedule of AKLF 2022: 21st January (Friday)
Inauguration
Key Note Address by Maina Bhagat, Director, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival
(2.45pm – 2.55pm)
Minding the Mind
Vandana Kohli and Terri Cole in conversation with Sunit Tandon
(3.00pm – 3.40 pm)
Aro Food Kahini – Kolkata’s Confluence of Cultural Capital
Indrajit Lahiri and Mir Afsar Ali in conversation with Roy (4.00pm – 4.00pm)
The Myth in Mythology
A talk by Devdutt Pattanaik (5.00pm – 5.40pm)
Who was the Real Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sagarika Ghose in conversation with Shantanu Guha Ray (6.00pm – 6.40pm)
Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize Shortlist Announcement
With Ms. Priti Paul, Author, and Columnist Shobhaa De, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Dr. Alka Pande & Kunal Basu and Guest Jury Mr. Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens
(7.00pm – 7.30pm)
Pandit Birju Maharaj (4 February 1937 – 17 January 2022)
*Shraddhanjali* by Sohini Roy Chowdhury
(7:30pm -7:45pm)
“A Life in Abundance for All”
A FEED India Initiative by Vikas Khanna in conversation with Ruchira Gupta on
(8.00pm – 8.40 pm)
“A God at the Door”
A Beam of Hope and Resilience – Tishani Joshi in conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj (9.00pm – 9.40pm)
About Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival
Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, India’s only literary Festival created by a bookstore and Kolkata’s first literary festival, reflects our city’s vibrancy of thought, its engagement with the literary world at large and explores literature as part of our tangible and intangible heritage. Celebrate books, music, art, film, and more with the finest creative minds in the nation and globally, as events unfold at the city’s magnificent heritage sites. Please visit www.aklf.in to know more.
About Oxford Bookstores
Established in 1919, Oxford Bookstore is one of the oldest heritage bookstores of the nation. It is India’s only bookstore to curate multiple literary festivals like Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob and Hindi Sahitya Utsav. The Oxford Bookstore not only offers book lovers access to the very best books and ambience, but also India’s first of its kind tea boutique, Cha Bar. At Oxford Bookstores, success is measured by the smiles on millions of happy readers that the brand has served over the last 100 years. Each time you walk into our iconic store in Kolkata, its old-world charm leaves you enchanted and desiring for more. Our fleet of ‘happy to help’ the knowledgeable booksellers and conversant hosts, work round the clock to bring to our vendees and world-class reading experience. Be it through our books or our fine teas we abide by the brand’s motto – Much more than a bookstore – at every Bookstore.
Please log on to www.oxfordbookstore.com for any further information.
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