India’s First-Ever Crime Writers Festival Organised by Siyahi, Powered by ID – Investigation Discovery

An initiative of the Crime Writers Forum of South Asia, Crime Writers Festival is powered by ID- Investigation Discovery, a Hindi Investigation Channel and produced by Siyahi. The festival will be held on 17^th – 18^th January 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. To register, log on to www.crimewritersfestival.com.

Crime Writers Festival 2015 will offer two days of soaking in the world of crime, suspense and high thrills with sessions on plot styles, films and characters. The festival will bring together the finest crime writers and filmmakers from India and around the world for sessions on all aspects of crime writing. Some of the distinguished personalities participating in the sessions are ASHWIN SANGHI, SURENDER MOHAN PATHAK, DIBAKAR BANERJEE, NILS NORDBERG, S.HUSSAIN ZAIDI and JERRY PINTO amongst many others.

Rahul Johri, Executive Vice President and General Manager – South Asia & Southeast Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said “ID is the only channel in India that presents true investigation and crime stories. The Crime Writers Festival is an ideal platform to reiterate ID's on-air promise of presenting thrilling investigative programming and varied narratives.”

Some of the exciting sessions to look forward to include: The Other Side Of Midnight: Sexualisation of Violence, Byomkesh Bakshi And The Bangla Bloodhound, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Analyzing Indian Detective Fiction and many others.

CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2015

AMPHITHEATRE, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI

10:15 am | INAUGURAL

10:30 am - 11:10 am | WINTER MURDERLAND

Nils Nordberg, introduced by Ashwin Sanghi

11:15 am – 11:55 am | JASOOSI NOVELS: AJAB KAHANIYA

Surender Mohan Pathak in conversation with Piyush Jha

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12:15 pm – 1:05 pm | 221-B BAKER STREET

David Stuart Davies, introduced by Priti Paul

Welcome by Gill Caldicott, Director Operations

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1:55 pm – 2:35 pm | CORPORATE CRIME: THE RISE AND FALL OF RAJAT GUPTA

Anita Raghavan in conversation with Suhel Seth

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2:40 pm – 3:30 pm | TICKLED TO DEATH

Zac O’Yeah, Tarquin Hall, Patrick Bryson in conversation with Jane De Suza

3:35 pm – 4:25 pm | THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT: SEXUALISATION OF VIOLENCE

Dipankar Gupta, Julien Védrenne, Trude Teige, Lady Kishwar Desai in conversation

4:45 pm – 5:25 pm | IN A STRANGE LAND

Caryl Férey in conversation with Amrita Tripathi

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | THE WORLD OF IBN-E-SAFI

Mahmood Farooqui in conversation with Khalid Jawed

6:05 pm – 6:50 pm | BYOMKESH BAKSHI AND THE BANGLA BLOODHOUND

Dibakar Banerjee, Dhritiman Chaterji in conversation with Rajit Kapur

EXPERIMENTAL ART GALLERY, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI

11:00 am - 11:30 am | DESIGNS OF THE DEVIOUS

Ketaki Karnik

11:35 am - 12:05 pm | WHERE IS SWEDEN IN SWEDISH CRIME FICTION?

Håkan Nesser

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm | BODIES, SUSPECTS, ALIBIS, CLUES!

Salil Desai

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | MURDER IN MAHIM

Jerry Pinto

2:35 pm – 3:05 pm | WHEN HISTORY MEETS MYSTERY

Satyarth Nayak

3:10 pm – 3:40 pm | TEN MINUTES PAST MURDER

Kalpana Swaminathan

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | BLOOD SONG

Juggi Bhasin

4:35 pm – 5:05 pm | KNOW YOUR SHIT: THE EXPAT GUIDE TO INDIAN TOILET HUMOUR

Patrick Bryson

OXFORD BOOKSTORE, CONNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | MY LIFE WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES

David Stuart Davies, introduced by Gill Caldicott, Director Operations

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2015

AMPHITHEATRE, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI

10:30 am - 11:10 am | THE GOOD COP

Håkan Nesser in conversation with Jerry Pinto

11:15 am - 11:55 am | THE CASE OF THE ENTANGLED WEB

Amrita Chowdhury, Shibani Nayak in conversation

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm | BLOODY POLITICS

Lord Meghnad Desai, Sandeep Unnithan in conversation with Mukul Deva

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1:50 pm – 2:35 pm | THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: ANALYZING INDIAN DETECTIVE FICTION

Zac O’Yeah, Mukul Deva in conversation with Aroon Raman

2:40 pm – 3:25 pm | THE ABC OF MURDER
Kalpish Ratna in conversation with Satyarth Nayak

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm | HEARTS OF DARKNESS

Piyush Jha in conversation with Rupleena Bose

4:30 pm – 5:10 pm | WHEN CRIME WRITERS CONSPIRE

Ashwin Sanghi in conversation with Lady Kishwar Desai

5:15 pm – 5:55 pm | MUMBAI: THE MEGALOPOLIS

Hussain Zaidi, Sandeep Unnithan in conversation

6:15 pm – 6:45 pm | THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION:  A MUSICAL RENDITION

David Stuart Davies, Angad Bagga, Dhruv Sehgal

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EXPERIMENTAL ART GALLERY, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI

11:00 am - 11:30 am | CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: A UNIQUE CASE FROM MUGHAL INDIA

Aroon Raman

11:35 am - 12:05 pm | DELHI HARD BOILED

Sharmila Kantha

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm | MISS DEMON’R

Richa Lakhera

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | ART OF MURDER

Mahendra Jakhar

2:35 pm – 3:05 pm | NOTES FROM MUMBAI MAFIA

S. Hussain Zaidi

3:10 pm – 3:40 pm | DIE LAUGHING

Tarquin Hall

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | QRIOUS QRIMES

Quizmaster Adittya Mubayi

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OXFORD BOOKSTORE, CONNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI

10:30 am – 12:30 pm | HOW TO WRITE DETECTIVE FICTION

Ashwin Sanghi

2:30 pm – 5:30 pm | KILLING FOR ATTENTION: A SCRIPTWRITING WORKSHOP BY DIBAKAR

Dibakar Banerjee

6:00 pm – 6:40 pm | NECROPOLIS

Avtar Singh in conversation with Supriya Nair

For the detailed schedule of sessions, log on to www.crimewritersfestival.com.

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ABOUT DISCOVERY NETWORKS ASIA-PACIFIC:

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