Goa News |33 new book launches at Lit Fest: 10 books of 8 Goans (By: GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI)

33 new book launches at Lit Fest: 10 books of 8 Goans

GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 02 December 2013 23:36 IST

Meera Kosambi's new book on D D Kosambi will be released

The 4th Goa Arts and Literary Festival (GALF) will witness 33 book launches – all new – in four days, including 10 books belonging to eight Goans.

The major books launches, as mentioned in the GALF press release, are Meera Kosambi’s book on her father and great Indian scholar D D Kosambi, titled “Unsettling the Past: D D Kosambi.”

The other equally acclaimed new books are Chetan Raj Shrestha’s “The King of Harvest”, Prajwal Parajuly’s “Land Where I Flee”, Gaiutra Bahadur’s “Coolie Woman”, Bilal Tanweer’s “The Scatter Here is too Great” and Damodar Mauzo’s “Tsunami Simon.”

The book launches also include Neeta Torne’s poetry collection translated also in Konkani, Hindi and English as well as journalist Sandesh Prabhudesai’s books in Konkani and Marathi, besides English.

Goan author Maria Aurora Couto’s new book “Filomena’s Journeys” will be launched as a curtain raiser, on the eve of the Lit Fest, on 4 December, by veteran Indian novelist Shashi Deshpande.

All other books are in English.

Following are the authors and their books:

NO	DATE	TIME	AUTHOR	BOOK	LANG	PLACE
1	4 Dec	5.30 pm	Maria Aurora Couto	Filomena’s Journeys	English	Goa
2	5 Dec	5.00 pm	Meera Kosambi	Unsettling the Past: D D Kosambi	English	Pune
3	5 Dec	5.00 pm	Damodar Mauzo	Tsunami Simon	English	Goa
4	6 Dec	11.00 am	Vijay Vardhan	Kurukshetra – Timeless Sancity	English	Chandigarh
5	6 Dec	11.10 am	Neeta Torne	Jagtana	Multilingual	Goa
6	6 Dec	11.35 am	Ayaz Memon	Jaico Cricketers’ Series	English	Mumbai
7	6 Dec	12.05 pm	Nandita Haksar	Travels through the Chicken’s Neck	English	Goa-settled
8	6 Dec	12.55 pm	Veena Sikri	India & Malaysia: Interwined Strands	English	Delhi
9	6 Dec	2.30 pm	Bina Ramani	Bird in a Banyan Tree	English	Delhi
10	6 Dec	4.00 pm	Prajwal Parajuly	Land Where I Flee	English	Oxford
11	6 Dec	5.10 pm	Sandesh Prabhudesai	Taalgadi	Konkani	Goa
12	6 Dec	5.10 pm	Sandesh Prabhudesai	Ghusmat	Marathi	Goa
13	6 Dec	5.10 pm	Sandesh Prabhudesai	Clear Cut	English	Goa
14	6 Dec	7.30 pm	Samar Halarnkar	A Married Man’s Guide to Creative Cooking	English	Goa
15	6 Dec	7.30 pm	Odette Mascarenhes	A Culinary Heritage of Goa	English	Goa
16	7 Dec	11.00 am	Kiran Rai	The Sacred Indian Tarot	English	Delhi
17	7 Dec	11.20 am	George Menezes	The Naked Liberal	English	Goa
18	7 Dec	11.35 am	Robin Gupta	And What Remains in the End	English	Delhi
19	7 Dec	12.05 pm	Rahul Alvares	Birds of Goa	English	Goa
20	7 Dec	12.10 pm	Vinita Dawra Nangia	It’s Your Life…	English	Delhi
21	7 Dec	12.30 pm	Shubha Vilas	Ramayana: Rise of the Sun Prince	English	Mumbai
22	7 Dec	1.00 pm	Jerry Pinto	Cobalt Blue	English	Mumbai
23	7 Dec	4.00 pm	Vishwajyoti Ghosh	This Side That Side	English	Delhi
24	8 Dec	11.45 am	Ramesh Chauhan	Thunder Ubottled…	English	Mumbai
25	8 Dec	11.45 am	Jeronino Almeida	Karma Kurry- for the mind, heart..	English	Mumbai
26	8 Dec	12.20 pm	Bilal Tanweer	The Scatter here is Too Great	English	Pakistan
27	8 Dec	12.45 pm	Aftab Khan Farooqui	Notes to Meher	English
28	8 Dec	2.30 pm	Manjiri Prabhu	The Cosmic Clues	English	Pune
29	8 Dec	4.00 pm	Gaiutra Bahadur	Coolie Woman	English	USA
30	8 Dec	4.55 pm	Chetan Raj Srestha	The King’s Harvest	English	Sikkim
31	8 Dec	5.30 pm	Anil Zankar	Mughal-e-Azam	English	Mumbai
32	8 Dec	5.30 pm	Meghanad Desai	Pakeezah	English	UK
33	8 Dec	5.30 pm	Sidharth Bhatia	Amar Akbar Anthony	English	Mumbai

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33 new book launches at Lit Fest: 10 books of 8 Goans

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