- 18th - 20th October, 2022
- SKICC, Centaur Hotel, Boulevard Rd, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
- info@cinemaazi.com
A Literary Retreat
Speakers First Edition
Aanchal Malhotra
Aanchal Malhotra is a multimedia artist whose works explore the written word, photographic ...
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Abha Iyengar
Abha Iyengar is an internationally published author, poet and British Council certified creative ...
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Aditya Bal
Chef Aditya Bal grew up in a family which ran a hotel in idyllic Kashmir, watching his maternal ...
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Akshay Manwani
Author of Sahir Ludhianvi: The People's Poet, Akshay Manwani graduated from St. Xavier's ...
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Dr. Alka Pande
Dr. Pande is currently a Consultant, Arts Advisor and Curator of the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat ...
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Ameena Saiyid
Ameena Saiyid is the managing director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan and the ...
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Amit Shankar
Amit Shankar has authored 4 national best sellers; Flight of the Hilsa, Chapter 11, Love is Vodka-A ...
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Anuja Chauhan
She is often described as 'the best writer of the Indian commercial fiction genre'. As a writer...
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Arvind Passey
Arvind passey began his professional life marching up and down the drill square of the Indian...
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Asif Noorani
Asif Noorani is a former editor, senior columnist, author, book and music reviewer and...
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Avirook Sen
Avirook Sen is an independent journalist based in Gurgaon. He has been a reporter...
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Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt is Consulting Editor with NDTV, India's premier news network. She is one of India's...
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Basanta Rajkumar
Basanta Rajkumar is an officer of Indian Forest Services. He is presently the Managing...
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Dr. Bibek Debroy
Padam Shri Dr.Bibek Debroy is a permanent member of NITI Aayog (National Institution for...
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Dadi Pudumjee
Dadi Pudumjee is a leading puppeteer in India, he is the founder of The Ishara Puppet Theatre...
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Dr. Debasis Panigrahi
Dr. Debasis Panigrahi has published nine collections of short stories, three collections...
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Deepa Agarwal
Deepa Agarwal was born and grew up in Almora, Uttarakhand. She writes for both children...
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Deepak Rawat
Born and bought up in Mussoorie, Deepak did his schooling from Hampton Court and ...
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Deepti Pant
Deepti Pant is a creative artist and storyteller, for the last decade, she has been exploring the ...
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Devapriya Roy
Devapriya Roy began her career with The Vague Woman's Handbook, a quirky novel ...
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Dinesh Trivedi
Illustrious and articulate, Dinesh Trivedi is an Indian politician from the All India Trinamool Congress ...
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Dolly Singh
Dolly is the founder of Poets Corner and Delhi Poetry Festival. A poet herself, her association with ...
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Fahad Samar
Fahad Samar is a director, film critic, author and columnist. Fahad is the best selling author ...
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Gautam Chintamani
Gautam Chintamani is a born cinephile and the author of Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being ...
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Gayatri Chatterjee
Gayatri Chatterjee is an independent film scholar and lives in Pune. She has written widely on ...
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Geet Chaturvedi
Geet is a Hindi poet and novelist. He has authored five books till now. In 2010, he published three ...
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Harish Chandra Singh Rawat
Harish Chandra Singh Rawat is an Indian political leader and Chief Minister of state of Uttarakhand...
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James Champion
James Champion is a passionate wildlife enthusiast with a long and distinguished ...
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Jane Gill
Jane Gill was born in England in 1964. She worked as a graphic designer for many years before finding ...
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Janhavi Prasada
Janhavi began her journalism career in 1998 with the Pioneer, a leading newspaper daily ...
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Jeroninio Almeida
Jerry is affectionately called "the moJOshInspirator" and "Karma Guru" by several people who ...
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Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto is the author of A bear for Felicia (Puffin) and Mowgli and the Bear (Disney) and co-author ...
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Kanza Javed
Kanza Javed's manuscript, "Ashes, Wine and Dust" was short listed for Tibor Jones South Asia Prize ...
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Kiran Chaturvedi
An experienced sociologist, qualitative consumer insight researcher, author and citizen activist,...
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Kiran Manral
Kiran was a journalist before she quit to be full time mommy. Her blogs were both in India's top ...
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HE Dr. Krishan Kant Paul
HE Dr. Krishna Kant Paul is the 6th and current Governor of Uttarakhand. He had previously ...
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Kulpreet Yadav
Kulpreet Yadav is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and Founder-Editor ...
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Kusum Budhwar
Kusum Budhwar's book "Where Gods Dwell", Central Himalayan Folktales and Legends was ...
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Lovita J R Morang
Green Oscar Entrant for acclaimed documentary film "Discovery of Rhododendron Forest ...
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Maharaj Krishna Raina
Maharaj Krishna Raina, popularly known as M.K. Raina, is one of India's best-known ...
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Maduja Mukherjee
Madhuja Mukherjee is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. She teaches Film Studies at Jadavpur University ...
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Mahesh Rao
Mahesh Rao was born and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. His short fiction has been shortlisted for ...
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Maitreyee B Chowdhury
Maitreyee B Chowdhury is a Bangalore based poet and writer. She has two books to her credit ...
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Dr. Manjiri Prabhu
Dr. Manjiri Prabhu is a Pune-based English Author, Film-maker and Lit Fest Founder / Director ...
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Maya Mirchandani
Maya Mirchandani is Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs Editor and a Senior Anchor at NDTV ...
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Menka Shivdasani
Menka Shivdasani is the author of three collections of poetry, Nirvana at Ten Rupees, Stet,...
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Meraj Anwar
Meraj is a Senior Project Officer in WWF-India. He has a Master's degree in wildlife science ...
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Mihir Vatsa
Mihir Vatsa's first book of poetry, Painting That Red Circle White, was termed a "must read of 2014" by...
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Mona Verma
Mona Verma is a writer based in Hardwar, Uttarakhand. She did her Philosophy Honours...
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Namita Gokhale
Namita has written six novels, a collection of short stories, and several works of non fiction, all ...
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Neelam Kapur
Neelam is a Civil Servant, currently head of the Directorate of Field Publicity which is responsible ...
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Neeta Gupta
Neeta Gupta is the publisher of Yatra Books. She is also a Joint Secretary with the Bharatiya ...
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Neha Prasada
Neha Prasada is the author of the book 'Dining With The Maharajas' which is a social history of the food...
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Olivier Lafont
Olivier Lafont is a multi talented and versatile personality who writes fiction, feature film ...
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Pervaiz Alam
Professor & Dean at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Apeejay Stya University...
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Philippa Kaye
Philippa Kaye is an Indophile, traveller, budding author, lover of dogs rider of horses, entrepreneur...
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Piyush Jha
Piyush Jha is an acclaimed film director, ad filmmaker and the author of bestselling crime-fiction ...
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Pragnya Wakhlu
Pragnya Wakhlu is an award winning singer, song writer and guitarist from India. Her passion for music...
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Pratap Somvanshi
Pratap Somvanshi is an eminent and celebrated Journalist of Hindi print known for his incisive ...
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Priya Kapoor
Priya began her career in journalism with The Indian Express. During this time she wrote a weekly ...
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Priyanka Singh Jha
She started as a correspondent at Citadel (a city magazine), The Asian Age (a national daily) ...
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Purabi Shridhar
A true blue hill girl by birth and at heart, Purabi Shridhar (nee Thapa) is becoming an expert at dual living ...
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R S Bedi
R S Bedi is a distinguished and decorated Army Personnel with a renowned family lineage...
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Rajat Kapoor
Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor and director born in 1961. He has acted in many successful films...
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Dr. Rakshanda Jalil
Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic, translator and literary historian. She has published over...
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Ravi Dhingra
New Delhi based Ravi Dhingra is a Canon Photo Mentor and also a visiting faculty for photography at ...
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Ravikant
Ravikant is a bilingual historian, writer, and translator based in CSDS, Delhi. He read,...
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Rishi Suri
Rishi Suri is a senior editor covering international affairs at The Daily Milap, India's oldest and ...
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Rosemary Fox
Rosemary was born in Lansdowne, Garhwal, the daughter of Gerrard Wilkinson, an officer ...
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Rudy Singh
Rudy Singh is passionate a filmmaker and photographer from Kumaon, with a keen ...
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Rutu Modan
Rutu Modan is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist. She is co-founder of the Israeli comics group ...
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Saif Mahmood
Saif is a New Delhi-based lawyer holding a doctorate in Comparative Constitutional Law in South ...
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Samir Sinha
Samir Sinha (IFS) is the Chief Conservator of Forests & Director, Corbett Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand,...
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Santosh Desai
MD & CEO of Futurebrands India Limited, Santosh is one of India's best-known social commentators...
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Sarah Blau
Sarah Blau is a Jewish writer and a theatre artist based in Israel. She was born in 1973 and raised ...
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Sathya Saran
Sathya Saran is a senior journalist and author of biography on Guru Dutt and his association ...
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Satyarth Nayak
Satyarth is an author script-writer based in New Delhi. Holding a Masters in English Literature from ...
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Saumya Kulshreshtha
A writer by passion and profession, Saumya is a Poet, Blogger, Editor and Translator. English, ...
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Saurav Jha
Saurav Jha is a commentator on energy and security. His first book, The Upside Down Book of Nuclear Power ...
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Dr. Shekhar Pathak
Dr. Shekhar Pathak is a historian from Uttarakhand, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 ...
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Shiv Shankar Maitra
Shiv Shankar is the author of The Brahmin Butcher. School years saw Shiv active on stage and National ...
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Siddhartha Gigoo
Siddhartha Gigoo studied English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He...
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Sonali Misra
An editor at Scholastic India, the leading publisher of children's literature in the country, Sonali Misra ...
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Suchita Malik
Dr. Malik teaches PG and UG Classes in English Department in Post Graduate Government ...
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Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and 'one ...
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Suhail Mathur
Suhail Mathur is an editor, literary agent and the author of the bestselling historical-mythological fiction, ...
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Sujata Parashar
Sujata is a novelist, poet, short story writer and activist. Her debut novel, In pursuit of infidelity (2009) ...
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Sumant Batra
Sumant is a corporate and policy lawyer of global eminence; writer, poet, museum curator and a ...
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Sumedha Verma Ojha
Author of Urnabhih - A Mauryan tale of espionage, adventures and seduction, Sumedha was ...
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Sumit Sehgal
Sumit is an wordsmith with a literary experience spanning eleven years with twenty-nine e-books in tow ...
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Surabhi Modi
Surabhi Modi Sahai is an education entrepreneur leading the most successful law test preperation ...
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Surender Mohan Pathak
He is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career ...
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Susy Matthew
Susy is the author af historical saga - In a Bubble of Time - spans from 14 BC - 28 AD (published, 2012) ...
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Syed Ali Hamid
Syed Ali Hamid was born and brought up amidst the decadent Avadh aristocracy in Lucknow, ...
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Tarun Thakral
With a background and career in Hospitality and a collector of vintage & classic vehicles, Tarun ...
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Tisca Chopra
Tisca Chopra is a contemporary actor in the Indian film industry, theatre personality and author ...
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Tripti Nainwal
Tripti Nainwal is a writer and editor who loves writing for children. She has long been associated ...
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Tuhin Sinha
Tuhin A. Sinha is among the best-selling authors in India, a columnist and a screenwriter. Tuhin is ...
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Udaya Shankar Pant
Udaya Shankar Pant is a Senior Civil Servant, currently Principal Chief Controller of Accounts ...
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Vandana Bist
Vandana Bist is an Illustrator, writer and children's author too. After graduating from the ...
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Vani Mahesh
Vani is the founder of EasyLib, the first online library in India (started in 2001). EasyLib now ...
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Vikram Sampath
Bangalore based historian Vikram Sampath is the author of three acclaimed works of non-fiction ...
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Vikramjit Singh Rooprai
An IT Consultant by career and a Heritage Activist by passion, Vikramjit is the founder of Youth for ...
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Vinita Dawra Nangia
Vinita Dawra Nangia is a Columnist, Author, Senior Editor, The Times of India and a Motivational Speaker ...
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Vipin Choudhary
Vipin Choudhary, is a poet, writer and translator. Vipin has translated story books of Ruskin bond, Emily ...
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Yaseen Anwer
Yaseen Anwer is a polyglot Indian poet. He founded 'Kaafiya: The Poetry Festival' in the year 2015, and is ...
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Yasser Usman
Yasser Usman is a television journalist and film critic. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath ...
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Daleep Akoi
Daleep began his career as a writer and editor with Reuters in New York City and now spends time developing ...
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