
After a tremendous response in various cities last year SheThePeople.TV is bringing the Women Writers Fest to Mumbai in partnership with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and Title Waves for its second edition in 2018. The day-long festival puts the spotlight on authors, writers, bloggers, and editors, featuring firebrand panelists from across genres.
Two days | Power packed sessions | 23rd Feb at Title Waves Bandra | 24th Feb Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
The fest will provide a forum for women writers from varied fields, be it script writing, blogging, books and more, to come together and discuss issues that are important to modern women.
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This festival aims to focus the dialogue around women writers who are breaking new ground in content, style, and storytelling. In this edition of the SheThePeople Women Writers Fest, we have fabulous speakers like Sagarika Ghose, Tara Deshpande, Annie Zaidi, Meghna Pant, Elsa Marie D’Silva, Ishmeet Nagpal, Ramya Pandyan, Harnidh Kaur, Priya Malik, Bhawna Somaya, Abhijit Kini, Vivek Tejuja, Payal Kapadia, Ruchita Dar Shah, Swati Popat Vats, Preeti Vyas, Manisha Lakhe and many more accomplished writers and creators discussing a range of diverse topics. From how to get children reading, to women writing crime, to gender violence, to Bollywood biographies, to speculative fiction and the rise of the graphic novel, we have a wide cross section of panel discussions scheduled, as well as workshops and performance poetry. The festival this year has been bifurcated across two venues, South Mumbai and Bandra to enable Mumbaikars from both town and the suburbs to be part of these essential discussions.
The Women Writers’ Fest is organized by SheThePeople.TV and curated by Founder Shaili Chopra, Ideas Editor Kiran Manral
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On 23rd Feb at Title Waves, Bandra
24th Feb at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

Speakers

She The People
SheThePeople.TV is India’s biggest storytelling platform for women and inspires new dialogue, exchanges leadership ideas, fosters networking and reinforces the ability of women to contribute to growth. Founder Shaili Chopra says, “We need to celebrate writing across genres, way beyond literature. We have women ahead in screenwriting, short stories, business and entrepreneurship, fiction, environment, some fantastic columnists and more. As part our effort to do more with writers across India, this is a first of a kind festival that promises to ignite rising minds”
Program
We have a power packed day with some award winning authors and writers.
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FridayPartners and Supporters
Titles Waves is Mumbai’s first boutique bookstore that boasts of a 40 feet wide grand entrance and spread over 8000 square feet. The ambience is warm spacious and customer friendly with innovative signage’s that will guide you to your favorite genre at a single glance. If this Is not enough, then a touch screen kiosk with a customer interface can come to your rescue. Simply search by author, by title or by publisher and the exact location of your book jumps out. The store has an equally huge collection of CD’s and DVD’s that are exclusively selected after tons of research and customer feedback.

Partners and Supporters
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, has been working actively in the fields of art, cinema, theatre, dance and literature by supporting programmes that are interdisciplinary and promote cultural exchange of ideas. It has a state of the art gallery space, which focuses on contemporary art and photography. The institute also promotes the study of German language abroad and fosters international cultural relations. The library of the MMB Mumbai provides comprehensive and up-to-date information about Germany.

Partners and Supporters
The Gourmet Jar produces innovative Gourmet condiments that are 100% natural, fresh and made without any preservatives or chemicals. All their products are made by a team of dedicated women in traditional style, with much love and care. The Gourmet Jar aims to enhance your eating-at-home experience by bringing gourmet to your everyday plate

Partners and Supporters
Manjul’s English-only imprint, Amaryllis, was founded in 2010, and brings to readers the best in writing from across the globe. Our focus is on fiction and non-fiction, mostly by Indian authors, encouraging emerging voices and nurturing established ones. We bring to our readers books of the highest quality, elegantly designed with exceptional production standards.
Amaryllis has more than eighty successful titles already under its belt and boasts of names like Ashok K. Banker, Deepti Naval, Sushma Seth, Jaswant Singh, Rajiv Malhotra, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Pritish Nandy, Satya Saran, Kiran Manral and many more on its list.

Agenda
Day 1 – Feb 23th, 2018 Title Waves, Bandra West
Panel 1: Bringing up a generation of readers
10 am to 10.45 am
Payal Kapadia, Preeti Vyas, Lubaina Tyeb Bandukwala & Swati Popat Vats
Moderated by Ruchita Dar Shah
Panel 2: Bollywood: Biographies versus Autobiographies
11 am to 11.45 am
Sujata Dev, Seema Sonik Alimchand & Koral Dasgupta
Moderator: Manisha Lakhe
Speaking her mind
12 pm to 12.45 pm
Sagarika Ghose in conversation with Shaili Chopra
Panel 3: The Business of Blogging: How they created breakthrough blogs
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
Prerna Sinha, Aanam Chashmawala, Kavya D’Souza & Ila Johari
Moderator: Anjali Kirpalani
Panel 4: Visuals over words: Graphic novels and other visual storytelling
2 pm to 2.45 pm
Abhijeet Kini, Neelam Kumar & Priyanka Paul
Moderated by: Tara Khandelwal
Panel 5: Speculative fiction and why we need more of it in India
3 pm to 3.45 pm
Kiran Manral, Sukanya Venkatraghavan & Shatrujeet Nath
Moderator: Vivek Tejuja
Panel 6: The Power and the Pelf: The challenges of documenting success stories
4 pm to 4.45 pm
Maya Bathija, Sonia Golani, Gunjan Jain
Moderated by Shaili Chopra
Panel 7:
5:00 pm
Conversation with Miss Malini on #HowSheDidIt
Day 2 – Feb 24th at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Panel 1: New Voices in Women’s writing in Marathi
11 am to 11.45 am
Renuka Khot, Meghana Bhuskute & Manaswini Lata Ravindra
Moderated by Mrinmayee Ranade
Panel 2 : The new revolutions in Urban Living
12 pm to 12.45 pm
Ronitaa Italia-Dhanu, Esha Gupta, Maria Louis & Preeti Singh
Moderated by Shweta Kaushik
Chat – Tara Deshpande Tennebaum on her food journey.
1 pm to 1.45 pm
In conversation with Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal.
Panel 3 : Dark: When women write crime
2 pm to 2.45 pm
Puja Changoiwala, Archana Sarat, Aarti V Raman & Annie Zaidi
Moderated by: Meghna Pant
Panel 4: The Streets are ours: Women on gender and violence
3 pm to 3.45 pm
Elsa Marie D’Silva, Priya Malik & Meghna Pant
Moderated by Sameera Khan
Performance: We, the XX chromosomes
4 pm to 4.45 pm
Ishmeet Nagpal & Ramya Pandyan
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Fireside Chat
5 pm to 6 pm
Kiran Nagarkar on Jasoda: The Quotidian Everywoman as a Heroine In conversation with Kiran Manral