Times Litfest Delhi 2017: Opening Ceremony

Jagdish Bhagwati and Gurcharan Das during the session of 'Poverty, the Pope and Mr Piketty: Poverty and income distribution' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Rajiv Gowda and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta during the session of 'Capitalism and Capitalists: Writing about Indian billionaires' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. ​(BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Ravish Kumar and Vineet Kumar during the session of 'Dilli ki prem kahaniya' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev during the session of 'The Truths of Wellbeing' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Salman Khurshid (L) during the session of 'At Home in India: The Muslim Saga' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Manisha Koirala during the session of 'Cutting cancer down to size' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Moderator Akash Banerjee and Assa Doron during the session of 'Critiquing Hinduism: Ideologies of Social Dominance' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Giti Chandra during the session of 'Writing for Young Adults' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Sumita Dawra and Shekhar Gupta during the session of 'China: Behind The Miracle' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Radhika Dhariwal during the session of 'Writing for Young Adults' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Amrita Tripathi and Jairam Ramesh during the session of 'Green Signals: Ecology, Growth and Development in India' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

AP Maheshwari, Manisha Koirala and Harmala Gupta during the session of 'Cutting cancer down to size' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Moderator ​Sankarshan Thakur and Ajoy Bose during the session of 'Biographies: Making and unmaking heroes' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Former CAG Vinod Rai during the session of 'China: Behind The Miracle' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. ​(BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Shobhaa De and Padma Desai during the session of 'Modern woman as public enemy no. 1.' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. ​(BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Kancha Ilaiah during the session of 'Critiquing Hinduism: Ideologies of Social Dominance' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Saif Mahmud with moderator Darain Shahidi during the session of 'Urdu Writing in India' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Gillian Wright and Mridula Garg during the session of 'Translations and Indian Writing' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Sujata Parashar with Dr Ashwani Chopra during the session of 'Beauty and Choice: Food, Wellness and Well Being' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Mickey Mehta and Vesna Jacob during the session of 'Beauty and Choice: Food, Wellness and Well Being' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Preeti Shenoy on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Padma Desai with moderator Nilanjana Roy during the session of 'Modern woman as public enemy no. 1.' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Moderator Ajoy Bose with Kingshuk Nag and Rajdeep Sardesai during the session of 'Writing on Namo: Deification or demonization' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

C P Surendran during the poetry reading session on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Tuhin Sinha and Kulpreet Yadav on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Khaleel Ul Rehman)

Moderator Ananya Vajpeyi (C) with Leela Gandhi (L) and Amit Chaudhuri (R) during the session of 'Freedom, Dissent and Indian democracy' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Bhawna Sirohi and Priya Dutt during the session of 'Cutting cancer down to size' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Ankit Chadha performs Dastangoi on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. ​(BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Rohan Murty during the session of 'Why the classics stills matter: scriptures of open-ness' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Robin Jeffrey and Sanjiv Shankaran during the session of 'About Rubbish: Toilets to Telephones in India' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Amarinder Singh (R) during the session of 'The Monsoon War--1965 War'' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Saad Z Hossain during the session of 'Bangladesh: Fighting Resurgent Islamism' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and TCA Srinivasa Raghavan during the session of 'Capitalism and Capitalists: Writing about Indian billionaires' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. ​(BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Assa Doron during the session of 'About Rubbish: Toilets to Telephones in India' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Janice Pariat during the poetry reading session on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Deborah Baker and moderator Sankarshan Thakur during the session of 'Biographies: Making and unmaking heroes' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015.

Mohsin Mushtaq during the poetry reading session on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Srinath Raghavan during the session of 'India’s Missing military histories' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Sudeep Sen during the book reading session on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Srinath Raghavan during the session of 'India’s Missing military histories' on Day 3 of Times LitFest Delhi, held at Maidens Hotel in New Delhi on November 30, 2015. (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)