The 10th edition of the Mysuru Literature Festival, featuring eminent authors, historians, journalists, artistes, entrepreneurs and intellectuals from across the country, will be held on July 4 and 5 at Hotel Southern Star. Pramoda Devi Wadiyar will inaugurate the Fest tomorrow at 10 am in the presence of Amish Tripathi, former diplomat-author known best for The Shiva Trilogy & Ram Chandra Series and Aroon Raman, entrepreneur-author, as guests of honour. Inauguration will be followed by panel discussions & documentary screening, said Shubha Sanjay Urs, Founder-Director of Mysuru Literature Festival and Mysuru Sahitya Sambhrama-2026. 

SCHEDULE — July 4 (Saturday)

Venue: Jyothi Hall, Hotel Southern Star (English Events)

Time Panel Panellists

10.45 am – 11.45 am ‘Abhijata Sahityada Avashyakate…’ Dr. Shatavadhani Ganesh

11.45 am – 12.30 pm Flights of Contemplation: A bird’s eye Capt. G.R. Gopinath &

view of the nation in a flux Shankar Bellur

12.30 pm – 1.15 pm ‘For the love of India – Leadership lessons Bhaskar Bhat &

from the Tata Group’ Harish Bhat

1.15 pm – 2 pm ‘Parichaya: Enduring themes in Indian Textiles’ Mayank Mansingh Kaul

2 pm – 2.45 pm ‘What Power Leaves Behind – Reading Preethi Nagaraj, Tabeenah Anjum,

Karnataka and Rajasthan Against the Grain’ Srikar Raghavan, Akhil Chaudary &

Deep Mukherjee

2.45 pm – 3.30 pm ‘Rukmini aunty reinvents the R.K. Narayan Sita Bhaskar

aura for his 120th birth centenary’ Jayashree Jagannatha & Shubha Sanjay Urs

3.30 pm – 4.15 pm ‘Weaving ancient languages and arts with Manisha Chaudhry, K.S. Jayalakshmi,

glorious cultural textures’ Anitha Rajarajan & Biswajit Balasubramanian

4.15 pm – 4.45 pm ‘Mysore and the making of India’s Chandan Gowda &

developmental State’ Amshula Prakash

4.45 pm – 5 pm ‘Shabdon ke paar: Kavita aur jeevan ka rishta’ Dwarika Uniyal &

‘Kavita kaise hamare anubandon ko arth deti hai’ A.P. Poornima

5 pm – 5.45 pm ‘Hyphen: Connecting Literatures’ Vivek Shanbhag &

Jonathan Gil Harris

5.45 pm – 6.30 pm ‘Pulse beat of, We the people’ T.M. Krishna &

Srikar Raghavan

6.45 pm – 7.45 pm Documentary Screening – Interaction with

‘Cauvery: River of Life’ Dr. Sanjay Gubbi

Venue: Gardenia, near Swimming Pool, Hotel Southern Star (Kannada Events)

Time Panel Panellists

12.30 pm – 1 pm One-man show ‘Hennallave’ Prof. Lakshmi Chandrashekhar

Directed by: Soumya Varma

1 pm – 1.45 pm ‘Sthree notadinda sahitya, samskruti, samaja’ Prof. R. Sunandamma,

Prof. Lakshmi Chandrashekhar

Prof. Sabiha Bhoomigowda &

Shanta Jayanand

1.45 pm – 2.45 pm ‘Ponnachiya Kathegararu’ Somshekhar, Swami Ponnachi,

Prakash Puttappa, Mahadeva Ponnachi,

Chetan Ponnachi, Shivakumar, Satish

  Ponnachi & Abdul Rashid

2.45 pm – 3.30 pm ‘Budakattu janangada sanghatane mattu Kripakar, Somanna &

aranyapara horatada jeevana yatre’ Vijayakumar

3.30 pm  – 4.30 pm ‘Harikatheya nepadalli jeevana darshana’ Shivara Umesh

4.30 pm – 5.15 pm ‘Moolakke hosa roopa needuva meragu: Jayaramaraje Urs, Krishnamurthy Srinath,

Bhashaantarada Beragu’ Jayashree Jagannath, Shubha Sanjay Urs,

Anuradha Chaudipura & H. Nivedita

5.15 pm – 6.15 pm ‘Krishiyalli surakshate – Sihi-kahi Chandru, David Belo,

Nala Bheemasenara paaka swadishtate’ Vinay Srinivas, Madhu Chandan &

Dharmendra Kumar

• Book Swap Corner
• Mysuru Contemporary Authors Corner
• Book Sale

www.mysuruliteraturefestival.com

Schedule is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.