Schedule – Rainbow Lit Fest

Rainbow Lit Fest – Queer & Inclusive

December 7 & 8, New Delhi

Day 1 Saturday, December 7

The Rainbow Lit Fest – Queer & Inclusive is for adults. There are a few sessions that are child and family friendly. An Asterix is marked against such sessions. Please make note of this to avoid an awkward situation of being refused entry.

Gates open at 10:00 am. Registration from 10:00 am.

venue:	playground
	The host for the day is Parvati M Krishnan
11.00 - 11.10	Opening Ceremony
11.10 - 11.15	FILM Ginger Beer (English), written and directed by Anuja Pandey.
11.15 - 11.40	KEYNOTE 1: What Ramji says to the Queers of India Devdutt Pattanaik Followed by a conversation with Saif Mahmood
11.45 - 12.10	KEYNOTE 2: Harmony and harmonizing Shubha Mudgal Followed by a conversation with Parvati M Krishnan
12.15 – 12.40	SPOTLIGHT TALK The race for and against colour Anuranjita Kumar Followed by a conversation with Anwesh Sahoo
12.45 - 1.10	SPOTLIGHT TALK Ardh-Nareshwar – Our ‘Queer’ existence Dr Alka Pande Followed by a conversation with Anuradha Sengupta
1.15 - 2.10	PANEL Queer and homosexual realities in religion, mythology and spirituality Jerry Johnson, Sukhdeep Singh, Saleem Kidwai and Vikram Kolmannskog in conversation with Aditi Maheshwari Goyal
2.15 - 2.40	SPOTLIGHT TALK A minority four times over: An American existence Nemat Sadat Followed by a Q&A with the audience moderated by Parvati M Krishnan
2.45 - 3.25	PANEL Even we exist – Identities within the Queer world Kumam Davidson, Grace Banu, Ruth Chawngthu and Rafiul Alom Rahman in conversation with Sameer Chopra
3.30 - 4.25	PANEL The patriarch + the hetero-normative: Living in a majoritarian world Anjali Gopalan, Maya Sharma, Mukul Kesavan in conversation with Urvashi Butalia
4.30 - 5.25	SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY – PART 1 Why history matters Saleem Kidwai Release Of Q & I – A collector's edition magazine By Saleem Kidwai, Pawan Dhall and Sandip Roy Launch of Pawan Dhall’s Out Of Line And Offline – Queer Mobilizations in 90s Eastern India by Pawan Dhall The author will be in conversation with Sandip Roy
5.30 - 5.55	SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY – PART 2 FILM BOMgAY directed and produced by the Late Riyadh Wadia The late director’s brother, Roy Wadia will be in conversation with Anant Zanane
6.00 - 7.00	Break
7.00 - 8.00	ENTERTAINMENT Mehfil – E – Qawwali by the Traditional Nizami Brothers*

venue:	The Courtyard
	The host for the day is Varun Khanna
12.15 - 1.10	PANEL Sex as work, love in sex: How society wishes to see things, the rights and wrongs of it! Meena Seshu, Simran Shaikh, Aisha Rai in conversation with Aarti Pai
1.15 - 2.10	PANEL Does it take two to tango? How queerness relates to ‘relationships’. Shivraj Prashad, Akanksha Singh, Arpit Bhalla and Rudrani Chettri in conversation with Adrija Bose
2.15 - 3.10	PANEL Who tells the story: An artist or a queer artist Saikat Majumdar, Gazal Dhaliwal, Kiran Bhat and Fahad Samar in conversation with Vivek Mansukhani
3.15 - 3.40	FILM I Am Sanjo (Malayalam with English subtitles) directed by Jijo Kuriakose The director will be in conversation with Koninika Roy
3.45 - 4.40	PANEL The known and unknown world of trans-people Zainab Patel, Mohul Sharma and Rudrani Chettri in conversation with Koninika Roy
4.45 - 5.00	FILM Khwaish directed by Sumit Pawar The director will take questions from the audience.
5.05 - 5.30	ENTERTAINMENT Drag Talk – A Performance by Avatari Devi
5.35 - 6.20	PANEL Left, right and centred – Understanding young leaders and their paradigm Anish Gawande , Jijo Kuriakose, Ruth Chawngthu and Bhuwan Khathuria in conversation with Ayushman Aishwarya

Day 2 Sunday, December 8

Gates open at 10:00 am. Registration from 10:00 am.

Venue:	Playground
	The host for the day is Parvati M Krishnan
11.05 - 11.40	KEYNOTE 3 Nandita Das Followed by a conversation with Anjali Gopalan
11.45 - 12.15	KEYNOTE 4 Onir Followed by a moderated Q&A with Parvati M Krishnan
12.20 - 1.00	SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY 3 When they gave us Pride – Stories from the first Pride Owais Khan, Rafiquel Dowjah and Pawan Dhall, in conversation with Sandip Roy
1.05 - 1.30	SPOTLIGHT TALK Ashok Malik – Advisor to the Minister of State for External Affairs Followed by a Q&A moderated by Parvati M Krishnan
1.35- 2.15	PANEL The strange relationship between literature and law Devdutt Pattaniak and Menaka Guruswamy in conversation with Saif Mahmood
2.20 - 2.55	PANEL From Aligarh to Made in Heaven: Apurva Asrani in conversation with Poonam Saxena
3.00 - 3.35	FILM Monsoon Date – a film by Tanuja Chandra Director will be in conversation with Gazal Dhaliwal and Apurva Asrani
3.40 – 4.25	SPOTLIGHT ON HISTORY 4 Fighting the law: The battle against Section 377 Anjali Gopalan, Arvind Narrain, Amrita Charkravarty and Anand Grover in conversation with Vivek Divan
4.30 – 5.10	Erotica, gender and shaayri: When Urdu gets the better of verse Saif Mahmood and Maaz Bin Bilal in conversation with Poonam Saxena
5.15 - 5.35	FILM Sisak – Directed by Faraz Ansari
5.40 - 5.55	ENTERTAINMENT Odditis
6.00 - 7.00	Break
7.00 – 7.45	ENTERTAINMENT Manzil Mystics*
8.00 - 10.00	ENTERTAINMENT The Original Knock Offs*

Venue:	The Courtyard
	The host for the day is Anwesh Sahoo
10.30 - 11.10	ENTERTAINMENT The Drag Story Hour* A 30-minute capsule especially designed for the Lit Fest and for children and parents. Lush Monsoon will conduct the session followed by a conversation with the authors of Elfie And The Peacock (BREAK)
11.45 – 12.10	FILM U for Usha (Marathi with English subtitles) directed by Rohan Kanawade. The director will be in conversation with Anwesh Sahoo
12.15 - 12.45	PANEL An absence that queers the Queer world: the life of lesbians A conversation between Maya Sharma and Dhamini Ratnam
1.15 – 1.40	Launch of Fearless Love Anthology, edited by Vikram E Kolmannskog The editor will be in conversation with a few contributors of the anthology
1.30 - 1.45	FILM Cover Story (English / Hindi) directed by Suhail Abbasi. The director will be in conversation with Srini Ramaswami
1.50 - 2.40	PANEL The new interventions: Workplace, business and technology. Parmesh Sahani, Zainab Patel, Rashmi Datta Handa in conversation with Srini Ramaswamy
2.45 - 3.00	SPOTLIGHT TALK: The man, the woman and the feminist Urvashi Butalia Q&A moderated by Anwesh Sahoo
3.05 - 3.55	PANEL Feminine and the effeminate in the Queer world - Is it a given? Gopi Shankar, Dhrubo Jyoti, Rituporna Borah and Rudrani Chettri in conversation with Sonal Kalra
4.00 - 4.25	ENTERTAINMENT The Wilde fairy-tale of Oscar – A Puppet Show by Varun Narain
4.30 - 5.25	Can India learn from the West? Kaushik Ray, Aly Khan and Roy Wadia, in conversation with Saurabh Kirpal
5.30 - 5.40	A peek into Tarang DIQTFF 2019
6.00 – 7.00	Mehfil-e-Mushaira Curated and Moderated by Azhar Iqbal and Chaired by Pervaiz Aalam Poets: Vipul Kumar, Pallav Mishra, Pratibha Pathak, Tarkash Pradeep, Tasneef Haider, Aqib Sabir, Abhinandan Pandey, Puneet Kusum

* Child-friendly