The only women focused travelling literary fest in India, with editions across eight cities in 2019 comes back to Delhi for its 2020 edition. The SheThePeople.TV Women Writers’ Fest is the only women focused travelling literary fest in India, with editions across eight cities in 2019. The Fest is coming back to Delhi for its 2020 edition, with a stellar line up of speakers and sparkling conversations around topics that provoke discussions and debate.

With the SheThePeople.TV Women Writers’ Fest we seek to mainstream women’s writing and provide a democratic, encouraging platform for women writers across genres, literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction and varied mediums to be showcased and heard. In our 2020 Delhi edition we showcase Voices of Dissent, Publishing 2020 where you can check if your manuscript under construction makes the cut of what some of the best editors in the business are looking for, Modern relationships in our fiction, discuss the city of Delhi and what it means to its residents as a city in motion, fireside conversations, spoken word and more.

Listen to acclaimed authors, columnists, academicians, media personalities, poets and publishers like Milee Ashwarya, Vinita Dawra Nangia, Dr Rakhshanda Jalil, Sunetra Choudhary, Fouzia Dastango, Natasha Badhwar, Aditi Maheshwari Goyal, Akash Banerjee, Priya Kapoor, Renuka Chatterjee, Diya Kar Hazra, Akash Banerjee, Dipankar Mukherjee, Rohini Singh, Swapna Liddle, Mridula Koshy, Arpita Das, Manjul Bajaj, Debeshi Gooptu, Shuma Raha, Kena Shree, Shaili Chopra, Kiran Manral and many more eminent names. Join the conversations, be part of the debates. The anchor for the day is Saumya Kulshreshtha.

Agenda

Panel 1, Timing: 10.30 am to 11.15 am

Topic: Voices of Dissent: Chronicling resistance

Moderator: Akash Banerjee

Speakers: Natasha Badhwar, Arpita Das, Rohini Singh, Sunetra Choudhury & Fouzia Dastango

Tea Break: 11.15 am to 11.45 am

Panel 2, Timing: 11.45 am to 12.15 pm

Topic: Romance from the Male Gaze

Moderator: Shaili Chopra

Speakers: Ravinder Singh

Panel 3, Timing: 12.15 pm to 1 pm

Topic: Modern relationships: It’s complicated

Moderator: Kena Shree

Speakers: Shuma Raha, Debeshi Gooptu, Vinita Dawra Nangia, Manjul Bajaj & Harshali Singh

Lunch: 1 pm to 1.30 pm

Panel 4, Timing: 1.30 pm to 2.15 pm

Topic: Udaan ke Bindu: Notes on life-changing books

Curated and Moderated by Aditi Maheshwari Goyal

Speakers: Dr. Anamika, Jayanthi Ranganathan, Geetashree & Anushakti Singh

Panel 5, Timing: 2.15 pm to 3 pm

Topic: Publishing Trends in 2020: Does your book make the cut

Moderator: Kiran Manral

Speakers: Milee Ashwarya, Diya Kar, Renuka Chatterjee, Dipankar Mukherjee & Priya Kapoor

Panel 6, Timing : 3 pm to 4 pm

Topic: Delhi In Motion

Moderator: Manimugdha Sharma

Speakers: Swapna Liddle, Mridula Kosh, Dr. Rakhshanda Jalil, Shaili Chopra, Yashodhara Lal & Bharati Chaturvedi

Tea Break: 4 pm to 4.15 pm

Panel 7, Timing: 4.15 pm to 4.45 pm

Topic: An Afternoon of Feminist Verse curated by Saumya Kulshreshtha

Speakers: Shibani Das, Vaishnavi Sharma, Sonal Sharma, Ishaan Chawdhury & Sushruti Tripath