Sessions 2011
Day 1Nov 4, 2011
09:00 AM
Vision
Tarun J Tejpal & Tina Brown. Opening address09:25 AM
Inception: New Ideas for the World
Justin Hall-Tipping (USA). Free Energy for All: The Promise of Nanotechnology.09:55 AM
Bunker Busters: Why We Fight
Hasan Elahi (USA) & Shehrbano Taseer (Pakistan). Don’t Get Mad, Get Even: The Anti-Terror Project.10:35 AM
The Emperor of Maladies
Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee (USA). The History of Cancer: How Tragedy Can Inspire.11:05 AM
Universal Keys
Anil Srinivasan with Sadhana Rao. Music, Revolution and Change.11:25 AM
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace
Shlomo Ben-Ami (Israel), Ram Jethmalani (India). The Israel - Palestine Conflict: The Power & The Poison of Nationhood.12:05 PM
Politics, wide angle
Nitin Gadkari (India). The big idea that drives me. And how difficult it is to pull it off.12:40 PM
Cosmic Adventures
Mike Brown (USA). Planet Hunting, Planet Killing: Why Everyone Should Look Up at the Sky02:45 PM
A Mocking Bird
Papa CJ (India)03:20 PM
Why We Fight: Stories & Solutions
Dayamani Barla (India), Aruna Roy (India). Ground Warriors: Battles for Earth, Water, Sky. And Life.03:55 PM
Cinematic Misadventures
Anurag Kashyap (India), Prakash Jha (India), Prasoon Joshi (India), Kaushik Mukherjee (India). Bollywood Provocateurs: Wild Imaginations and Tame Audiences.04:35 PM
Universal Keys
Noa and Mira (Israel).05:00 PM
A Journey Without Maps
Nobel Laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul (UK) in conversation with Tarun J Tejpal (India). What Writing Can Do That Nothing Else Can.05:35 PM
Green Prophet
Bjorn Lomborg (Denmark). War Rooms for Planet Earth: How the World Can Spend Its Money Better.06:05 PM
A Mocking Bird
Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan), Richard Fredman (USA).Day 25 Nov, 2011
09:00 AM
Authors in Search of 140 Characters
Shashi Tharoor (India), Hari Kunzru (UK). Romance, Revolution and Bigotry: The Promise and Perils of New Media.10:20 AM
Fears and Frontiers
Carl Dietrich (USA). The Flying Car: How I Invented the Batmobile.10:50 AM
Fears and Frontiers
Maajid Nawaz (UK). The Story of an Anti-Extremist: Why I Joined the Jihad, and Why I Rejected It.11:20 AM
Universal Keys
Anil Srinivasan with Sadhana Rao. Composers as Thought Leaders.12:20 PM
Kafka in a Dhoti
Kapil Sibal (India). The Dilemmas of Development and Democracy.12:55 PM
The Fixers’ Riddles
Rajan Mittal (India), Prashant Ruia (India), K D Singh (India). Entrepreneurship 2012: Socialism, Capitalism and the New Beast That Needs to be Invented.02:35 PM
Liberal Voices
Arvind Kejriwal (India), Anna Hazare (India, TBC), Shekhar Singh (India). Vaccines for Democracy: Jan Lok Pal Bill, a Morality Tale.03:15 PM
The Difficulty of Selling Excellence
Abhay Deol (India), Dibakar Banerjee (India). Movies Bollywood Is Too Scared to Make. Imran Khan (India). How the Suits Are Killing Indian Cinema. Kiran Rao (India). Luck By Chance: How Not to Make Creativity An Accidental Thing.04:20 PM
Kafka in a Dhoti
Omar Abdullah (India). The Dilemmas of Development and Democracy.04:55 PM
Universal Keys
Anil Srinivasan with Sadhana Rao. Music and the Mind.05:15 PM
The Art of Construction
Frank Gehry (USA), Thomas Pritzker (USA). Life Beyond the Box: The Design Philosophy of a Master Architect.05:55 PM
Play for Peace
Four For Jericho by Theatre Group Menagerie (UK). A Journey Through Palestine No-One Should Miss.Day 36 Nov, 2011
