10th Edition of Mysuru Literature Festival – 2026 Two-day Lit Fest from tomorrow

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.