The 15th edition of Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF-2025) is set to begin on Friday (January 24), with the inaugural plenary ‘A Life in Cinema’ featuring actor Shabana Azmi in conversation with Amita Desai.
The festival promises an interesting line-up of literary discussions, cultural conversations and artistic expressions. The venue for the three-day festival, which will conclude on January 26, remains Sattva Knowledge City in HITEC City, Hyderabad.
Organised in 15 streams, the festival’s schedule has themes ranging from literature and storytelling to climate change, science, indigenous languages and culture. The highlights include segments such as Kaavya Dhaara, Youngistaan Nukkad, Nanha Nukkad, workshops, exhibitions and interactive sessions such as Meet My Book.
Personalities from cinema, journalism and literature feature in this year’s line-up. Another plenary, Viewfinder: A Memoir, would feature actor Amol Palekar and his wife Sandhya Gokhale in conversation with filmmaker Mohana Krishna Indraganti.
Actor Huma Qureshi would discuss her work Zeba: An Accidental Superhero with Kinnera Murthy, and senior journalists Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi would address Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods. Former RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao would share insights from his memoir Just a Mercenary? Notes from My Life and Career, conversing with Suchitra Shenoy.
Attendees can visit the official Hyderabad Literary Festival website https://www.hydlitfest.org/ for more details.
Published – January 24, 2025 12:59 am IST
