Day 1 | October 7 Introduction Performance Interactive Session Masterclass Book Reading Book Signing Book Launch Quiz Schedule

Performance by Kapil Pandey Venue 3 | Kitab Ghar For 16+ years | Room No. 111 For 13-18 years | Room No. 105 4 pm-5 pm
Stage 1 | Kathashala Adapting Stories for the Stage and the
May the Folk Be With You Pagoda for Book Launches and Interactive No Holds Barred: A conversation between
EPDM Lawn Screen: Author Adithi Rao takes you
- Ganga’s Curse Sessions on the Lawns film-maker Ashim Ahluwalia and For 9-12 years | 4-4.15 pm
Sneha Iype Varma, co-founder, NLF and through how writers make their readers or Adithi Rao
Duration: 30m viewers care for the characters they create
9 am-10 am Nirvana Films
2023 Neev Book Award Announcement 11 am-12 pm for the page, the stage, or the screen?
Duration: 45m Venue 6 | Book Signing
Performance by Kapil Pandey Ceremony by the Neev Book Award jury PYP Courtyard
Book Launch of The Great Cookie Chaos Duration: 60m
May the Folk Be With You - A Tale of the written by Jessica Shaw and illustrated by
Duration: 30m 11 am-12 pm
Missing Barbers Pauline Gregory For 16+ years | Room No. 106
Presented by Daffodil Lane Books. 11 am-12 pm
Duration: 45m For 9-12 years | Room No. 109 Layers of Reading: What are the insights
Stage 2 | Kahani Manch Sanya Podar conducts the session. Illustrating Nature: Nature illustrations with that the close reading of a text brings forth 11-11.15 am
NBA Student Chair and Co-Chair speak Grass Field near the Athletic Track
Duration: 45m Sucharita Sengupta Suri that a surface-level reading does not? Anushka Ravishankar
about their journey with the NBA this year Learn more with expert Language and
Duration: 45m Literature educators Colin Kelman and
Duration: 10m 9 am-10 am 1 pm-2 pm 11.15-11.30 am
Anu Ruhil Barua Richa Jha
Books for Readers of All Hues Lunch For 9-12 years | Room No. 101
10 am-11 am Behind the Scenes of Brilliance: Learn Duration: 45m
Jyoti Rajan Gopal on what goes into making 11.15-11.30 am
For parents and educators a book that speaks to different cultures 2 pm-3 pm more about the craft of writing a biography Devika Cariapa
Post-Pandemic Parenting for children with writer Arundhati Venkatesh 1 pm-2 pm
Duration: 40m Ordinary Childhoods, Extraordinary Lives
Dr Pramit Rastogi and Shabnam Minwalla Interact with Mamta Nainy on translating Duration: 45m Lunch 11.30-11.45 am
in conversation with Dr Tanu Shree Singh Performance by by Goshtarang great lives on to the page Jyoti Rajan Gopal
on what parents can do to mitigate the in Hindi - Pu Bu For 9-12 years | Room No. 107
psychological impact of the pandemic on Duration: 40m Venue 5 | Book Readings
Breaking Biases: Dismantle stereotypes 11.30-11.45 am
young people Duration: 10m PAS1, Ground Floor Dr Tanu Shree Singh
Performance by by Goshtarang with writer Divya Anand
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m in English - Moin and the Monster Duration: 45m
10 am-11 am 10 am-11 am 12 pm-1 pm
Duration: 10m
11 am-12 pm Gaegul the Green Frog For 13-18 years | Room No. 104 For 5-7 years | 10-10.15 am 12-12.15 pm
An interactive storytelling session with 3 pm-4 pm Beyond the Single Story: Look beyond the Anushka Ravishankar Robin Page & Kartik Shanker
For parents and educators Geeta Ramanujam
Ecological Mindspace single story with Devika Rangachari
Green Comfort
Robin Page and Kartik Shanker are in Duration: 40m Duration: 45m For 6-8 years | 10.20-10.35 am 12-12.15 pm
Spaces of comfort in neighbourhoods with Chatura Rao
conversation about sparking a love for Tanya Majmudar Geeta Ramanujam
Science in children Performance by by Goshtarang
Duration: 40m For 13-18 years | Room No. 105 For 5-7 years | 10.40-10.55 am
in Hindi - Gudiya 12.15-12.30 pm
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m Growing Historical Awareness: Hannah Sadaf Siddique Tanya Majmudar
Duration: 10m Performance by by Goshtarang Lahlanpuii demonstrates how writers weave
12 pm-1 pm in English - Indian Weavers first-hand accounts into their writing
11 am-12 pm 12.30-12.45 pm
11 am-12 pm Duration: 10m Duration: 45m Devika Rangachari
For parents and educators
Spotlight on Small Moments For 5-7 years | 11-11.15 am
Changing Times, Changing Values Jyoti Rajan Gopal
Renée Watson, Ashim Ahluwalia, and Chatura Rao on how little things lead to big 4 pm-5 pm For 13-18 years | Room No. 106 12.30-12.45 pm
Jane De Suza in conversation with discoveries in her books. Visualising History: Connect the dots Nikhil Gulati
Book Launch of Mahalaxmi Goes to Mysore For 6-8 years | 11.20-11.35 am
Dhooleka Raj on the pressures that young between historical facts to make them
Duration: 40m (hOle book) by Niyatee Sharma Geeta Ramanujam
people face today and ways they may visually engaging with graphic novelist 12.45-1 pm
Presented by Duckbill Books Nikhil Gulati Hannah Lahlanpuii
navigate these healthily. Performance by by Goshtarang
Duration: 45m Duration: 45m For 6-8 years | 11.40-11.55 am
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m in English - Glibbeish Gibberish Tanya Majmudar
1 pm-2 pm
Duration: 10m
1 pm-2 pm Venue 4 | First Floor Classrooms 12 pm-1 pm Lunch
Masterclasses for 9-12 years; 13-18 years 12 pm-1 pm
Lunch 12 pm-1 pm
For 9-12 years | Room No. 111 2 pm-3 pm
A Coming Together of a Community For 6-8 years | 12-12.15 pm
2 pm-3 pm 10 am-11 am Blending the Light and the Dark: Learn Mamta Nainy
Explore Sadaf Siddique’s inspiration for how 2-2.15 pm
from the author Soumya Ayer on how to Renée Watson
Inhabiting Parallel Timelines the people of a locality come together. For 9-12 years | Room No. 101
balance sombre topics with a touch of light
Shabnam Minwalla on what it takes to get Drawing from History: With illustrator For 9-12 years | 12.20-12.35 pm
Duration: 40m humour in one’s writing
characters from two different eras to speak Priyanka Tampi Divya Anand 2-2.15 pm
Performance by by Goshtarang Duration: 45m Chatura Rao
to the reader convincingly. Duration: 45m
in Hindi - Bade Aalsi Bhaluram For 9-12 years | 12.40-12.55 pm
Duration: 40m For 9-12 years | Room No. 107 For 9-12 years | Room No. 109 2.15-2.30 pm
Duration: 10m Arundhati Venkatesh
Neighbourhood Depictions: With illustrator Returning to a Favourite Fictional World: Arundhati Venkatesh
Performance by Kapil Pandey Habib Ali and Canato Jimo, Art Director, Sail along the river of story with the award-
- Us Vs Them 1 pm-2 pm Pratham Books winning writer Anita Nair and pen your own 1 pm-2 pm 2.15-2.30 pm
story elements Lunch Divya Anand
Duration: 10m Lunch Duration: 45m
Duration: 45m
For 9-12 years | Room No. 104 2.30-2.45 pm
3 pm-4 pm 6 pm-7.30 pm 2 pm-3 pm Adithi Rao
Familial Bonds: With author and publisher For 9-12 years | Room No. 101
Life in the Age of AI Motley presents “Beastly Tales”, a collection Richa Jha Vaccine for Smartypants: Work with For 9-12 years | 2-2.15 pm
Nidhi Sudhan on how algorithms make the award-winning author Anushka Anita Nair 2.45-3 pm
of fables for our times - poems and short Duration: 45m
their way into one’s mindspace and the stories by Vikram Seth and James Thurber. Ravishankar to frame a few pages of your Soumya Ayer
increasing omniscience of generative AI version of Smartypants’ next big adventure. For 9-12 years | 2.20-2.35 pm
For 13-18 years | Room No. 105 Soumya Ayer
Duration: 40m India in 25 Lives: With award-winning Duration: 45m 3 pm-4 pm
author Devika Cariapa 3-3.15 pm
Performance by Kapil Pandey For 9-12 years | 2.40-2.55 pm
Duration: 45m For 9-12 years | Room No. 107 Dr Tanu Shree Singh Sadaf Siddique
- Spinning Dreams 5 to 7 years 6 to 8 years
Literary Keepsakes: Explore the Korean
Duration: 10m 9 to 12 years 13 to 18 years For 13-18 years | Room No. 106 poetry form sijo with award-winning author 3.30-3.45 pm
Story Symbols: Eminent artist Linda Sue Park 3 pm-4 pm Shabnam Minwalla
16+ years
Venkat Shyam delves into the significance Duration: 45m For 13-18 years | 3-3.15 pm
4 pm-6 pm
of particular motifs in Gond art Shabnam Minwalla 4 pm-5 pm
Worlds Within and Apart
Duration: 45m For 13-18 years | Room No. 104 4-4.15 pm
Devashish Makhija and Chatura Rao are in For 13-18 years | 3.20-3.35 pm
Creativity in Animation: Explore the Mamta Nainy
conversation about the place that the tribal Nikhil Gulati

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techniques that may best serve an idea, with
holds in our lives today.
master practitioner and National Award-
4.45-5 pm
Duration: 40m winning animation film maker Suresh Eriyat For 13-18 years | 3.40-3.55 pm Devashish Makhija
Hannah Lahlanpuii
Duration: 60m
Day 2 | October 8 Introduction Performance Interactive Session Masterclass Book Reading Book Signing Book Launch Quiz Schedule
Stage 2 | Kahani Manch For parents and educators For 13-18 years | Room No. 106 For 9-12 years | Room No. 101 4 pm-5 pm
Stage 1 | Kathashala Spotting Patterns: Writers, designers, and
Grass Field near the Athletic Track Poetry that Speaks to Multiple Identities Snipping Words, Moulding Tales: Just
EPDM Lawn poets often spot patterns in the stories For 9-12 years | 4-4.15 pm
Renée Watson on books that speak to what does a children’s book editor do? Get
readers of multiple identities, and fostering a firsthand account from Sudeshna Shome around them to inspire their own work. Nayanika Mahtani
9 am-10 am 9 am-10 am a love for poetry in children Ghosh, publisher, Talking Cub Award-winning author Priya Narayanan
does this too. For 13-18 years | 4.20-4.35 pm
Performance by by Goshtarang Performance by Kapil Pandey in Hindi | May Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m Duration: 45m Vinitha R
the Folk Be With You - A Story Quadrangle Duration: 45m
in Hindi - Birthday Chocolate
Duration: 45m Performance by Kapil Pandey in Hindi | For 13-18 years | Room No. 111 For 9-12 years | 4.40-4.55 pm
Duration: 30m May the Folk Be With You - The Heroes Bringing Pages to Life: Put together the For 13-18 years | Room No. 107 Richa Jha
We Worship components that make up your everyday Penning a Romance Series: Popular author
NLF Student Co-Chair speaks about her NLF Student Chair speaks about her journey
with the festival this year Duration: 30m to create a visual narrative with master Andaleeb Wajid delves into the making of
journey with the festival this year illustrator Priyankar Gupta Venue 6 | Book Signing
a romance novel, having released Jasmine PYP Courtyard
Duration: 5m Duration: 5m Villa, a tri-part series, of three boks at the
Venue 3 | Kitab Ghar Duration: 45m
Pagoda for Book Launches and Interactive same time
Students from Neev Academy speak about A student from Neev Academy presents her 11 am-12 pm
musical composition set to a mythological tale Sessions on the Lawns 3 pm-4 pm Duration: 45m
their experience with the 2023 NLF Reading
Challenge 11-11.15 am
Duration: 7m For 9-12 years | Room No. 109 For 13-18 years | Room No. 104 Muthoni Muchemi
11 am-12 pm Interviewing Animals: Explore the
Duration: 20m Fresh Views of Creation Myths: Explore
Book Launch of Sringeri Srinivas Keeps acclaimed author Robin Page’s take on her new ways to tell ancient stories with Kenyan
10 am-11 am 12 pm-1 pm
book in which animals explain why they look storyteller Muthoni Muchemi.
10 am-11 am his Promise by Rohini Nilekani, Angie, and
2023 NLF Reading Challenge - Grand like they do. 12-12.15 pm
Upesh Duration: 45m
Green Waves Finale Quiz Presented by Pratham Books Duration: 45m Akhila Das Blah
An interactive storytelling session with Duration: 1h 45m
Kenyan storyller Muthoni Muchemi Duration: 45m
For 9-12 years | Room No. 101 Venue 5 | Book Readings
2 pm-3 pm
Duration: 40m Performance by Kapil Pandey in Hindi Building Thrilling Eco-Fiction: Learn how PAS1, Ground Floor
Quizzing Complications 3 pm-4 pm the author Nayanika Mahtani’s work with 2.30-2.45 pm
An energizer by Goshtarang Roopa Pai
Book Launch of What the Dark Sounds Like the children of poachers inspired her writing. 10 am-11 am
Duration: 45m
Duration: 10m by Aparna Kapur and Krishna Bala Shenoi Duration: 45m
Presented by Pratham Books For 5-7 years | 10-10.15 am 3 pm-4 pm
12 pm-1 pm Akhila Das Blah
11 am-12 pm Duration: 45m For 9-12 years | Room No. 107 3-3.15 pm
Be A Mind-Ninja with Roopa Pai Cultivating Empathy: In a country where Menaka Raman
Local and Global Childhoods For 6-8 years | 10.20-10.35 am
Decode a 2000-year-old text with a multitude of stories abound, what are the Menaka Raman
View the A-Z of diverse cultures from a bestselling author Roopa Pai and the 4 pm-5 pm tales that sow the seeds for children to grow 3-3.15 pm
child’s view with Akhila Das Blah insights it contains kindness, and reap empathy? Find out more Linda Sue Park
Book Launch of Uncontrollable by
Duration: 40m with the author Nandita da Cunha. 11 am-12 pm
Duration: 45m Varsha Seshan
Presented by Duckbill Books Duration: 45m For 6-8 years | 11-11.15 am 3.15-3.30 pm
Performance by Goshtarang Performance by Kapil Pandey | Duration: 45m Sudeshna Shome Ghosh Bijal Vachharajani & Rajiv Eipe
in English - What If Spring Stretches For 13-18 years | Room No. 104
Duration: 10m Duration: 10m Blurring Boundaries: Award-winning For 9-12 years | 11.20-11.35 am 3.30-3.45 pm
Venue 4 | First Floor Classrooms Linda Sue Park Sanjana Kapur
graphic novelist Nandita Basu blurs the
Masterclasses for 9-12 years; 13-18 years
boundaries between time, class, and gender,
12 pm-1 pm 1 pm-2 pm
through her books The Piano and Rain Must For 9-12 years | 11.40-11.55 am 3.45-4 pm
Bedtime, without Sleep Signs Lunch 2 pm-3 pm Fall. Absorb her process, to inspire your own. Nandita da Cunha Shalini Satish &
Pattu wakes up one night to find Mr Raam Baranidharan
For 9-12 years | Room No. 101 Duration: 45m
Thookam (Mr Sleep) gone! Join storyteller 2 pm-3 pm 12 pm-1 pm
Creature Chronicles: Award-winning author
Priya Muthukumar to find out where. 4 pm-5 pm
For parents and educators and illustrator duo Bijal Vachharajani and For 13-18 years | Room No. 105 For 9-12 years | 12-12.15 pm
Duration: 40m Rajiv Eipe show you how to create exciting Examining Freedom: Art and poetry come Priya Narayanan 4-4.15 pm
Books as Connectors
Linda Sue Park touches on the projects animal stories together as participants embark on a voyage Nandita Basu
Performance by Goshtarang that reading has spurred young people to Duration: 45m with award-winning writer and For 9-12 years | 12.20-12.35 pm
of a poem by Vi Da Karandikar take up, and the roles that parents and film-maker Samina Mishra to define their Jane De Suza 4-4.15 pm
Duration: 10m educators play on this front. For 9-12 years | Room No. 107 own interpretations of what freedom means Nandita da Cunha
Taut Histories: Author Tanu Shree Singh to them. For 9-12 years | 12.40-12.55 pm
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m
1 pm-2 pm examines the era of Independence through a Duration: 45m Bijal Vachharajani 4-4.15 pm
child’s eyes in her new book. Walk this path Jane De Suza
Lunch 3 pm-4 pm with her. For 13-18 years | Room No. 106 1 pm-2 pm
For parents and educators Duration: 45m Best of Both Worlds: Trained in the Western 4.15-4.30 pm
2 pm-3 pm The Future of Talk traditions of art, the famous Bengali painter Lunch Samhita Arni
Jane De Suza presents insights on how For 9-12 years | Room No. 109 Jamini Roy evolved a new aesthetic by
Small and Big Questions 4.15-4.30 pm
technology and social change will shape not IoT for Children: The Young Techies series bringing in elements of Indian folk art. 2 pm-3 pm
A little girl’s dream about women scientists Vaishali Shroff
just the way we talk in the near future, but by Shalini Sathish and Raam Baranidharan Find out more with award-winning author
comes true in Menaka Raman’s new book. For 9-12 years | 2-2.15 pm
even who we are. looks to develop an understanding of new Vinitha R
Find out more. Roopa Pai
technologies in a fun way. Know more from 4.15-4.30 pm
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m Duration: 45m Samina Mishra
Duration: 40m the authors.
For 9-12 years | 2.20-2.35 pm
An energizer by Goshtarang 4 pm-5 pm Duration: 45m 4 pm-5 pm Robin Page 4.30-4.45 pm
Nayanika Mahtani
Duration: 10m For parents and educators For 13-18 years | Room No. 104 For 9-12 years | Room No. 111
Inverting Stereotypes: Discover how award- For 9-12 years | 2.40-2.55 pm
A Librarian’s Dream The Language of Nonfiction: Author Renée Watson
Librarians from different geographies mine winning author Venita Coelho plays with her 5 pm-6 pm
3 pm-4 pm Vaishali Shroff looks at the history of India’s
their experience on the work they’ve done linguistic diversity, and where we are at characters to create unique combinations
5-5.15 pm
Performance by by Goshtarang to grow readers. Listen to Ann Lazim, today, in her session on writing engaging Duration: 45m 3 pm-4 pm Venita Coelho
in Hindi - Geet ka Kamal Nadine Bailey, and Katie Day, hold forth in non-fiction. For 9-12 years | 3-3.15 pm
their conversation with Dalbir Kaur Madan Sanjana Kapur
Duration: 30m Duration: 45m For 9-12 years | Room No. 109 5-5.15 pm
Duration: 40m | Q&A: 10m Depicting Difficulties: If you had to describe Andaleeb Wajid
For 13 to 18 years | Room No. 105 a difficult emotion that a person experiences, For 9-12 years | 3.20-3.35 pm
Re-Reading, ReTelling: Hear from the what would it look like? How would you write Shalini Satish & Raam Baranidharan 5.15-5.30 pm

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award-winning writer Samhita Arni on how
retellings can bring in newer perspectives
about what you see? Author Sanjana Kapur
details this idea in her book For 13-18 years | 3.40-3.55 pm
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9 to 12 years 13 to 18 years than the original Duration: 45m
Priya Narayanan
Duration: 45m