Digital & One by The Rainbow Lit Fest – Queer And Inclusive


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    DAY 1

    Saturday, December 5 2020
    Day 1-MATINEE

    • 11:30 IST : Keynote One On One with Dr. Shashi Tharoor

    • 12:00 IST : Panel Discussion 1 – The ‘alternate’ in pop culture: Limits, expanse, rights and wrongs - Onir, Sushant Digivkar, Rudrani Chettri & Navin Naronha, moderated by Ayushman Aishwarya Aka Lush

    • 13:00 IST : Panel Discussion 2 – The Past, The Present Continuous – Does History Matter?, Santa Khurai, Jayshree T & Maya Sharma in conversation with Pawan Dhall

    • 14:00 IST : Panel Discussion 3 – Divide, Minus, Equal To? - Sadam Hanjabam, Jyotsna Siddharth, Shivangi Agrawal & Daniel Mendonca, moderated by Nishadh Mohammed

    • 15:00 IST : Panel Discussion 4 – Sexuality And Gender – Keeping These Stories Alive - Sakshi Juneja, Sukhdeep Singh, Japleen Pasricha & Priyakanta Laishram moderated by Saransh Sugandh

    Day 1-EVENING

    • 17:30 IST : Panel Discussion 5 – Perspectives, Lenses And Plurality - Nandini Sengupta, Seema Anand, Pradipta Ray & Michiel Baas, moderated by Rahul Sen

    • 18:30 IST : Poetry – Rhyme & Reason 1 by Vishal Ghatge

    • 18:35 IST : Panel Discussion 6 – Diasporic Connections – Influences Over Space And Race - Kareem Khubhandani, Myna Mukherjee, Neeraj & Dhiren Borisa, moderated by Sandip Roy

    • 19:30 IST : Poetry & Interview with Amani Saeed

    • 19:50 IST : Panel Discussion 7 – Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing - Raga Olga D'Silva & Nicola Fenton, Sridhar Rangayan & Saagar Gupta, Rituparna Borah & Amrita Tripathi, moderated by Anwesh Sahoo

    Day 1-NIGHT

    • 21:00 IST : Poetry Rhyme & Reason 2 – Aditya Tiwari

    • 21:05 IST : Panel Discussion 8 – Transiting Change In a Metro - Abheena Aher & Mahi Gupta in conversation with Sumit Pawar

    • 21:30 IST : Music – John Oinam

    • 21:50 IST : Puppetry – Queering Hans Christian And-Her-Sons by Varun Narain

    • 22:00 IST : Film – Nowhere

    DAY 2

    Sunday, December 6 2020

    Day 2-MATINEE

    • 11:30 IST : Keynote Address – Dr. Bibek Debroy

    • 12:00 IST : Poetry – Rhyme & Reason 3 by Shambhavi Dewadi

    • 12:05 IST : Panel Discussion 9 – In Search Of An Ideal Film - Tanuja Chandra, Gazal Dhaliwal, Alankrita Shrivastava & Faraz Ansari, moderated by Namrata Joshi

    • 13:00 IST : Panel Discussion 10 – From Then To Now – Better to Bitter, Singular to Plural? - Anjali Gopalan, Sandip Roy, Vyajayanti & Debolina Dey moderated by Anushka Jadhav

    • 14:00 IST : Film – Do Re Mi

    Day 2-EVENING

    • 17:00 IST : Film – Parvaah

    • 17:05 IST : Panel Discussion 11 – Is Home Where The Hurt Is? - Saikat Majumdar, Debolina Dey, Chitra Palekar & Jay Anand, moderated by Adrija Bose

    • 18:00 IST : Panel Discussion 12 – Instinctive Leadership: Shaping The Workplace Culture with Parmesh Sahani, Priya Paul, Ritu Dalmia & Vivek Sahni, moderated by Nikhil Khanna

    • 19:00 IST : Film – The Men Who Speak Gayle

    • 19:10 IST : Panel Discussion 13 – Poetic Justice : Dr. Akhil Katyal, Aditi Angrias, Gowthanman Saroja Ranganathan & Santa Khurai, moderated by Dr. Saif Mahmood

    Day 2-NIGHT

    • 20:00 IST : Film – Forever 17

    • 20:30 IST : Panel Discussion 14 – Court, Courtship, Love and Dignity with Saurabh Kirpal, Ritu Dalmia, Madhavi Menon & Namita Bhandare, moderated by Shivraj Prasahad

    • 21:30 IST : Music – Smruti Jalpur

    • 21:45 IST : Stand-Up Comedy – Navin Naronha

    • 22:00 IST : Music – Leon D'Souza


    * Schedule and Timing Subject to change * Detailed Schedule available in the main website * Content of Digital & One is for adults and might be misunderstood or misconstrued by people who aren’t aware of gender and sexuality and it’s nuances. The varied voices speaking through the two-day event are experts in their fields or have lived experiences that shape what they say and how they feel. We cannot take responsibility for every word or utterance. Keeping that in mind, we may deny providing any link of access to those who aren’t within the permissible age.

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