Day 1
Day 1 Saturday, 29th November 2025
November 29, 2025
2 pm – 2.50 pm: Session (1)
The future of Publishing: Print, Digital
and Beyond
Chair: Kanishka Gupta
Panelists:
1. Sunita Pant Bansal
2. Milee Ashwarya
3. Aditi Maheswari
3.00 pm – 3.50 pm: Session (2)
The Machine as Muse: AI in Art, Music
and Literature
Chair: Prashant V Singh
Panelists:
1. Mitali Chinara
2. Yatindra Mishra
3. Koral Dasgupta
4 pm – 4.40 pm: Session (3)
From Poetry to Portraits:
Yatindra Mishra On Writing Lives
Niddhi Garg in conversation with Yatindra Mishra
4.40 pm – 5.10 pm
Tea Break
5.15 pm – 6.15 pm: Session (4)
Odia Session(1):
Odia as a Classical Language :
Tradition, Identity and Future
(ଶାୀୟ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା: ପରରା, ଅିତା ଓ ସାବନା)
Chair: Santosh Kumar Rath
Panelists:
1. Basanta Kumar Panda
2. Bijaya Kumar Satpathy
3. Ranjan Kumar Das
2 pm – 2.40 pm: Session (5)
The Mystery Maker – Between Crime,
Clues and Craft
Niddhi Garg in conversation with Manjiri Prabhu
2.50 pm – 3.40 pm : Session(6)
The Stage of Change: Theatre in the Contemporary World
Chair: Satyabrata Rout
Panelists:
1. Vani Tripathi Tikoo
2. Sourav Gupta
3.50pm – 4.40pm : Session (7)
Poetry as Survival, Protest and Prayer
Chair: Kanji Patel
Panelists:
1. Prabha Varma
2. Aswini Kumar Mishra
3. Akhil Kumar Mishra
4. Sudeep Sen
4.40 pm – 5.10 pm
Tea Break
5.15 pm –6.15 pm: Session (8)
Multilingual Poetry Reading (1): Poetry as Witness, Poetry as Resistance
Chair: Prabha Varma
Readings:
1. Ashutosh Parida
2. Kanji Patel
3. Salma
4. Yatindra Mishra
5. Pritidhara Samal
6. Ipsita Sadangi
7. Mahua Sen
2 pm – 2.40 pm: Session (9)
The Art of Becoming: Visionary Paintings by Jagannath Panda
Ramakanta Samantray in conversation with Jagannath Panda
2.50 pm – 3.40 pm : Session (10)
The Future of Storytelling: Tradition and Transformation
Moderator: Vasudhendra
Panelists:
1. Arupa Patangia Kalita
2. Shyamaprasad Choudhury
3. Binod Ghosal
3.50pm – 4.40pm : Session (11)
Her Pen, Her Power: Breaking Barriers through Words
Chair: Aparna Mohanty
Panelists:
1. Arupa Patangia Kalita
2. Anuja Chandramouli
3. Paramita Satpathy
4.40 pm – 5.10 pm
Tea Break
5.15 pm –6.15 pm: Session (12)
Odia Session (2):Mother Tongue or Market Tongue? Writing for Truth or Trend
(ମାତୃଭାଷା ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷା? େଲଖନ: ସତପାଇ ଁନା ତିା ପାଇ)ଁ
Chair: Radha Madhab Dash
Panelists:
1. Gouranga Charan Dash
2. Asit Mohanty
3. Saroj