Times Litfest Delhi 2017: Opening Ceremony

Sudeep Sen: "To me poetry is life and life is poetry." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Mridula: "Saying no is not negativity. It is infact the most positive thing." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Jagdish Bhagwati: "If you want to prove something you make assumptions." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Amish Tripathi: "I don't search for stories, they come to me." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Katherine Boo: "Uncovering corruption began out of shyness." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Naina Lal Kidwai: "If you don't have passion, you will never give your best." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Gurucharan Das: "When you love what you do it's not work it's play." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Maria Khan: "Religion is a source of spirituality and the two will co-exist." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

P Chidambaram: "The media is not exaggerating anything. It is holding a mirror to the society." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Taslima Nasrin: "Writers cannot be responsible for riots. Rioters don't read books."

Ram Gopal Varma: "You are a some total of your experiences, whether good or bad." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Aakar Patel: "The right has ideologies. The left is always complaining." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Sudheendra Kulkarni: "There is immense diversity in India. India's culture is tolerant." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Ashwin Sanghi: "I write because I am an introvert." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Fahad Samar: "Films have the potential to reflect and bring social change." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Ravi Subramanian: "You have everything in a bank from a Murder to corruption , all that is required in a thriller." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Gautam Chintamani: "Unfortunately popular cinema has now become reference based films." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Sanjoy Roy: "Mythologies always define characters as a hybrid of the good and the evil." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Anand Neelkanthan: "People do things, later we ascribe them as good or bad." (BCCL/Piyal Bhattacharjee)

Basharat Peer: "We are not actors. We only write what you do." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Saad Z Hossain: "Humor lets you criticise a thing without getting aggressive." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Suhel Seth: "Ashutosh is the Mark Zuckerberg of Delhi." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)

Shyam Babu: "If you think Nehru was great you must also acknowledge where the inspiration came from." (BCCL/Anindya Chattopadhyay)