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The 14th variation of the Bengaluru Literature Festival (BLF) volition beryllium held connected December 6 and 7, this clip astatine Freedom Park.
This variation volition person 4 stages- 3 children’s venues and a bookstore. It volition diagnostic adjacent to 300 international, Indian and metropolis authors and speakers.
Big names
Leading names astatine the festival are International Booker Prize victor Banu Mushtaq, British transgression writer Clare Mackintosh, tech writer and AI chronicler Karen Hao, American writer and novelist Kazim Ali, award-winning Australian playwright Julie Janson, writer and MP Shashi Tharoor, writer and chairperson of The Hindu Group Nirmala Lakshman, essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, bestselling writers Amish, Anand Neelakantan, Chetan Bhagat, and Shobhaa De, comedian and histrion Vir Das, among others, the BLF said.
The festival volition unfastened astatine 9 a.m. with greeting euphony connected some days. Entry is free, unfastened to each and registration is recommended, the BLF said.
Why antithetic venue
V. Ravichandar, 1 of the organisers of the BLF, said that the displacement successful the venue was to guarantee a assemblage lawsuit was held successful a nationalist space.
“Moreover, the Freedom Park is successful the bosom of the city, adjacent to metro stations and autobus stands. It has ample paid parking for some two-wheelers and cars,” helium said.
“From a tract of soundlessness and surveillance to 1 of assemblage and expression, the Freedom Park stands arsenic a awesome of Bengaluru’s past and present, reminding america that nationalist spaces, similar literature, speechmaking and people, tin alteration and transportation guardant caller meanings,” helium further said.
The festival venue is an eight-minute locomotion from Sir M. Visveswaraya Station, Central College Metro (Purple Line) and the autobus stop, and a 15-minute locomotion from the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Station, Majestic Metro (Green Line) and the autobus stop.
