4:30 PM - 4:35 PM
Lamp Lighting
A.Namassivayam, Tejasvi Surya, Partha Hariharan, Alo Pal, Ajit Datta
4:35 PM - 4:50 PM
Speeches
Partha Hariharan, A.Namassivayam, Kanchan Gupta's Message
4:50 PM - 5:30 PM
SMaRT - Swarajya Awards
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Keynote Address
Tejasvi Surya
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Sri Aurobindo, India, and the world
Nandini Sengupta(Moderator), Gautam Chikermane, Dr. Sampadananda Mishra, Dr. Pariksith Singh, Devdip Ganguli
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hindus of Hindu Rashtra(Book Launch and Discussion)
Alo Pal(Moderator), Prof. Anand Ranganathan, Adv.Vishnu shankar Jain, Dr. Meenakshi Jain, Dr. Ratan Sharda
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Veer Savarkar and the Early Revolutionary Movement in India
Dr. Vikram Sampath
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
This is Sanatan Dharma (Book Launch and Discussion)
Gautam Chikermane (Contributing Moderator), Partho
Book Stall Break
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Indian Knowledge Systems and the Perpetuity of Civilization
Prafulla Ketkar (Contributing Moderator), Sandeep Balakrishnan, Dr. Sampadananda Mishra
12:15 PM - 01:00 PM
Godi Media -Supine, Constructively Critical or Pointlessly Combative
Abhijit Iyer Mitra (Contributing Moderator), Shehzad Poonawala
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
The Past as Present: Battles Over History
Dr. Swapan Dasgupta
Lunch Break
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Civilization Memory Validated: The Case for Mathura and Kashi
Alo Pal(Moderator), Adv. Vishnu Jain, Dr. Meenakshi Jain
03:30 PM - 04:15 PM
Resurgent Indic Narratives
Arun Krishnan, Abhinav Agarwal(Contributing Moderator), Sivakumar GV
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Vedas Made Simple (Book Launch and Discussion)
Dr. Pariksith Singh, Dushyanth Sreedhar
05:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Chandrayaan And Beyond: India's Space Race
Prof. Aloke Kumar, Prof. Gautam Desiraju
Book Stall Break
06:15 PM - 07:00 PM
India's Neigbours: Pakistan, China and the Seas
Siva Aroor (Moderator), CMDE. Srikant Kesnur, Ari Marshal Anil Chopra
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Domestic Politics and Strategic Autonomy
Rahul Shivshankar, Rashmi Samant, Ashok Chowgule, Dr. ratan Sharda (Moderator)
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
India's strategic Autonomy and Air Power
Air Marshal Anil Chopra
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Histroy Narratives ans Research
Nandhini Sengupta (Contributing Moderator), Disha Ahluwalia, Prasenjit Basu, Vijayalakshmi Vijaykumar
Book Stall Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 AM
Breaking News Into Pieces: What Ails the Media
Deep Halder (Moderator), Shiv Aroor, Rahul Shivshankar, Monika Halan, Abhijit Majumder
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
India's Soft Power
Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Dr. Swapan Dasgupta, Abhijit Iyer Mitra (Contributing Moderator),
Lunch Break
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
India's Neighbours: Looking East
Abhijit Iyer Mitra (Contributing Moderator), Sandeep Unnithan, Deep Halder, CMDE. Srikant Kesnur
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Is India Witnessing Amrit Kaal?
Prof. Gautam Desiraju, Monika Halan (Contributing Moderator), Prasenjit Basu, Ashok Chowgule
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
The Never Dying Fire (Book Launch ans Dicussion)
Devdip Ganguli, Rakhul Venet
05:00 PM - 05:45 PM
Tackling Neglected Diseases - Indian Healthcare Breakthoughs
Prof. Anand Ranganathan, Prof. Shailja Singh
Book Stall Break
06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
26/11: 15 Years On
Sandeep Unnithan, Shiv Aroor
06:45 PM - 07:15 PM
Revisiting Ganga-Jamni Tehzeeb
Dr. Meenakshi jain
07:15 PM - 08:15 PM
Is the Indian state designed to fulfill our strategic goals?
Prafulla Ketkar, Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Abhijit Majumder, Anand Ranganathan (COntributing Moderator)
15 September | Pondy Lit Fest
The seventh edition of Swarajya Awards will be presented on September 15th
during a special session at the Pondy Lit Fest 2023
Four awards encompassing economics (Dr B R Shenoy Award), politics (Dr S P Mukherjee Award), society(Sree Narayana Guru Award) and cultural (Ustad Bismillah Khan Award) spheres will be presented.
The Motwani Jadeja Foundation’s flagship initiative, the Rajeev Circle Scholars Program, will be introduced at Pondy Lit Fest 2023.
The Rajeev Circle Scholars Program seeks to publish high quality, well-researched and accessible popular books on Indian history each year through the grant of a coveted Fellowship awarded to eligible scholars.
“With 17 percent of the world already living in India (and an estimated population of 1.5 billion by 2030), it is imperative that the citizens of India leapfrog into the future as rapidly and efficiently as possible. We need new systems, a new way of looking at the world and a new to make this possible.”
-Asha Jadeja Motwani