Literature AajTak 2024: Sahitya Aaj Tak program has started at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in the country’s capital Delhi. The literature fair is organized for three days. Today i.e. Saturday is the second day of Sahitya Aaj Tak. Many celebrities including Gulzar, Jubin Nautiyal, Alok Srivastava, Anoop Jalota, Talat Aziz, Ashok Chakradhar, Surendra Sharma will participate in it.
Many interesting sessions took place on the first day of Sahitya Aaj Tak. Many eminent personalities participated in these. Rapper Badshah, storyteller Devi Chitralekha, poet and Rajya Sabha MP (Congress) Imran Pratapgarhi, scientist and writer Gauhar Raza, bhajan singer Anup Jalota, famous screenwriter Nilesh Mishra, famous Hindi lyricist Prasoon Joshi graced the programme.
There will be many great sessions in this year’s Mahakumbh. Here we will tell you how to go to ‘Sahitya Aaj Tak’ and become a part of its special programs.
23 November, Saturday, Halla Bol Chaupal, Stage-1
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | Post |
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | I should do something like this.. | Arjun Pandey | singer |
| 12:00-12:30 PM | a thief came to my house |
Justh |
singer and songwriter |
| 12:30-13:30 PM | comic poet conference | Ashok Chakradhar | Padmashree, Writer, Poet |
| Surendra Sharma | Padmashree, Writer, Poet | ||
| Arun Jaimini | Writer, poet, satirist and Haryana Sahitya Academy honored | ||
| Sarvesh Asthana | Writer, poet, satirist and Yash Bharti Award recipient | ||
| Dr. Popular Meeruti | Poet, writer and Kaka Hathrasi Award recipient | ||
| 13:30-14:30 PM | Tribute to Pankaj Udhas | Anoop Jalota | Padmashree, Singer, Musician and Actor |
| Talat Aziz | Singer, Musician and Actor | ||
| Sudeep Banerjee | Singer and music director | ||
| Alok Srivastava | Poet | ||
| 14:30-15:30 PM | Have to cross the limit… | Jubin Nautiyal | singer |
| 18:00-19:00 evening | Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Samman | Honored by the President of India | |
| 19:00-20:00 PM | Gulzar Sahab!!! | Gulzar | Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Sahitya Akademi, Jnanpith, Oscar and Grammy Award winner |
| 20:00-22:00 PM | Sufi gathering… | Kabul Bukhari | singer |
23 November, Saturday, Stage 2, Dastak Darbar
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | Post |
| 12:00-13:00 PM | Against war… | bodhisattva | Poet, Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award Recipient |
| Ashutosh Dubey | Poet, Raza Award recipient, incidentally | ||
| Vivek Chaturvedi | Poet and Spandan Samman Recipient | ||
| Afternoon13:00-14:00 PM | Hindu Civilization: Questions of Identity and Symbol | Pawan K. Varma | Writer-diplomat, former Rajya Sabha member |
| Rahul Dev | Language Worker, Honorary Advisor, Parliament Research Initiative | ||
| Akshay Mukul | Author, Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Geeta Press and the Making of Hindu India | ||
| 14:00-15:00 PM | Poetry will speak… it will reveal things… | Naresh Saxena | Writer, Poet, Pahal Samman, Shamsher Samman and National Film Award winner |
| Madan Kashyap | Writer, poet and Kedar, Shamsher and Nagarjuna awards honored | ||
| Jitendra Srivastava | Poet, writer, on the back of Kaal Mriga | ||
| 15:00-16:00 PM | Crisis of Hindi literature.. | Mamta Kalia | Author and Vyas Samman recipient |
| Shiva idol | Writer and Shrilal Shukla IFFCO Award Winner | ||
| Chandrakala Tripathi | Author, Channa Tum Ugiho | ||
| 16:00-16:30 PM | You who can add harmony to my voice… | Hemlata | singer |
| Arvind Yadav | Author of Hemlata | ||
| 16:30-18:00 PM | Mehfil – Love, Loss and Longing, The Delhi Poets | Vidya Shah | singer |
| 19:00-20:30 PM | Queen’s Mushaira | Dr. Nusrat Mehdi | poetry |
| Alina Itrat | poetry | ||
| Hina Rizvi | poetry | ||
| Jyoti Azad | poetry | ||
| prerna pratap | poetry | ||
| Poonam Ghazal | poetry |
23rd November, Saturday – Stage-3, Sahitya Tak
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | Post |
| 12:00-13:00 PM | Will Hindi/Devanagari be lost? | Dr. Suresh Pant | Language expert, writer, with words |
| Rahul Dev | Language Activist, Honorary Advisor, Hon Advisor, Speaker’s Research Initiative, Parliament of India | ||
| Pro. introduction das | Language expert and writer | ||
| kamlesh kamal | Language Expert, Writer, Language Resolver | ||
| 13:00-14:00 PM | There is writing beyond stories… | Anulata Raj Nair | author of wild flower girl |
| Shikha Varshney | Author of London Diary, Feathers of Feet and Reflections of the Mind | ||
| Divya Vijay | Writer of life on the tune of algos and locked in drawers | ||
| Sanjay Shepherd | Author of Ek Siyah Firdaus and Zindagi Zero Mile | ||
| 14:00-15:00 PM | From past to present – looking for heroes | Vishwas Patil | Sahitya Akademi Award winning author |
| couple joshi | Author- Agnikaal, Singapore Water Story, Boons and Curses, Women Warriors in Indian History | ||
| Of impression. material equipment | Babar: Author of The Chessboard King | ||
| 15:00-15:30 PM | Bollywood biographies… | yunus khan | Author of Shailendra |
| sahar zaman | Author- ‘Talat Mahmood The Definitive Biography’ | ||
| 15:30-16:00 PM | spirituality and acting | Akhilendra Mishra | Writer, film and television actor |
| 16:00-16:45 PM | Feeling, separation and poetry… | Yatindra Mishra | Poet and Writer, ‘Akhtar: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar’, Lata Sur Gatha, Gulzar Sahab |
| Babusha Kohli | Poet-Writer, ‘Love Squirrel Heart Walnut’, ‘Glass Girl in Steam House’, ‘The boat grows not from the shore but from the water’ | ||
| Lovely Goswami | Poet and writer, sadness is my mother tongue and forest | ||
| instruction fund | Poet and writer- ‘A river is not a bluethroat’ | ||
| 16:45-17:30 | heart, mind and earth | Dr. Sanjay Kumar Alang | IAS (retd) and poet |
| Ashutosh Agnihotri | IAS, Poet, Additional Secretary (Home Ministry) | ||
| Abhay’s | IFS, Poet, DDG- Indian Council of Cultural Relations | ||
| 17:30-18:00 | Book, Academy and Fairs | Dr. K. Srinivasrao | Secretary, Sahitya Akademi |
| Pro. Ravi Prakash Tekchandani | Director, National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language |
Day 3, 24th November – Sunday, Stage-1, Halla Bol- Chaupal
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | Post |
| 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Those losses… | Hargun Kaur | Singer |
| 12:00-13:00 PM | Politics and literature together | Dr. Shashi Tharoor | Writer, Former Diplomat, Bureaucrat, MP |
| 13:00-14:00 PM | Aam Jahe Munde V ne made special.. | Parmish Verma | Singer and performer |
| 14:00-15:00 PM | Poet Conference | Dr. Hariom Panwar | Poet |
| Vishnu Saxena | Poet | ||
| Dr. Shiv Om Ambar | Poet | ||
| Dr. Kirti Kale | Poet | ||
| Shashi Shreya | Poet | ||
| 15:00-16:00 PM | The matter is Oscar… | Ravi Kishan | Actor, Politician, MP |
| 16:00-18:00 PM | Grand Mushaira | Wasim Barelvi | Poet |
| Farhat Ehsaas | Poet | ||
| Nawaz Deobandi | Poet | ||
| Shakeel Azmi | poet and lyricist | ||
| A M Turaj | Poet | ||
| Azhar Iqbal | Poet | ||
| Gautam Rajrishi | Poet and author of hashtag book | ||
| Alok Srivastava | Poet | ||
| 20:00-22:00 PM | What did you get… Musical Concert – Grand Finale | Shreya Ghoshal | singer |
Day 3 – 24th November, Sunday, Stage-2, Dastak Darbar
| Time | session name | speaker | Post |
| 12:00-13:00 PM | madam ips officer | Manjiri Jaruhar | IPS (Retd), Former Special DG CISF, Author – Madam Sir: The Story of Bihar’s First Woman IPS Officer |
| Aruna Bahuguna | IPS (Retd), first woman IPS of United Andhra Pradesh | ||
| Dr. Meeran Chadha Borwankar | IPS (Retd), Maharashtra’s first woman writer – Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life Of An Indian Police Chief | ||
| 13:00-14:00 PM | Past, Heritage and Our Today | Neelima Dalmia Aadhaar | Writer – ‘Father Dearest: The life and times of RK Dalmia & A secret Diary of Kasturba, Radha: The Princess of Barsana’ |
| Lakshmi M Puri | Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations; Deputy Executive Director at UN Women, author of ‘Swallowing the Sun: A Novel’ | ||
| ring finger | Sahitya Akademi Recipient, Writer – Digant in the Basket, Rough Palms, Doob-Dhan | ||
| 14:00-15:00 PM | factionalism in hindi literature | Ganesh Pandey | Poet, Critic, Writer- ‘Truth of Criticism, Critic’s Notes’ |
| Krishna myth | Poet, Critic, Writer – Hindnama, Rekhte Ke Beej, Jali Kitab | ||
| Om Nishchal | Poet, critic, writer – ‘Keep my sorrow at my bedside, let someone inside me sing in tune’ | ||
| Prem Janmejay | Satirist, Writer – Horny Asshole, KYC of Satire | ||
| 15:00-16:00 PM | 100 years of RSS | Vijay Trivedi | Journalist, author of Sangha Sharanam Gachchami |
| Ashutosh | Journalist, Writer- Hindu Rashtra, ‘The Crown Prince, the Gladiator and the Hope: Battle for Change’ ‘Anna: 13 Days That Awakened India’ | ||
| Sudhanshu Trivedi | BJP leader, Rajya Sabha MP | ||
| 16:00-17:00 PM | Stories of brothels from Banaras to Lahore | Vidya Shah | Singer, writer, ‘Jalsa: Indian Women and their Journeys from the Salon to the Studio’ |
| Manjari Chaturvedi | Classical dancer, creator of Sufi Kathak, restorer of courtesan dance | ||
| Yatindra Mishra | Poet and Writer, ‘Akhtar: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar’, Lata Sur Gatha, Gulzar Sahab | ||
| 17:00-18:00 PM | Cinema, Literature and Theater | Atul Tiwari | writer and actor |
| Akhilendra Mishra | Writer, film and television actor | ||
| Chitranjan Tripathi | Director- National School of Drama, Writer, Film and Television Actor | ||
| 18:00-18:30 PM | Are you mentioned or… | A M Turaz | Poet |
| 18:30-20:00 PM | Sham-e-Ghazal- Legends of Urdu Poets | sudeep banerjee | singer |
Third day, 24th November, Sunday, Stage-3- Sahitya Tak
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | Post |
| 12:00-13:00 | In the street of crime… | Satya Vyas | Novelist, author of 7 bestsellers – Banaras Talkies, Delhi Darbar, Chaurasi and Lakdbagha |
| Manoj Rajan Tripathi | Author – Code Kakori and Kasari Masari | ||
| Gautam Rajrishi | Poet and Writer – Samar Pratap Singh | ||
| Dilip K Pandey | Writer and politician | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Say that your lips are free… | Joshna Banerjee | poetess |
| Anuradha Singh | poetess | ||
| Vinay Saurabh | Poet | ||
| Ankush Kumar | Poet | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Linguistic Literature: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | Prabal Kumar Basu | Bengali poet, essayist and editor |
| Maitreyi Patar | Assamese poetess and music artist | ||
| Durga Prasad Panda | Oriya bilingual poet, translator and critic | ||
| Mehul Devkala | Gujarati poet and award winning filmmaker | ||
| 15:00-16:00 | 75 years of independence: changing female characters with time | Usha Priyamvada | Author – Fifty-Five Pillars Red Walls and Arkadipat, American emerita professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Namita Gokhale | Writer – Paro: Dreams of Passion and Things to Leave Behind, Sahitya Akademi Award Recipient | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | The world opens up through translation | Prabhat Singh | Journalist, writer and translator |
| morning milind | Writer and translator | ||
| Manisha Taneja | Writer and translator | ||
| Pooja Priyamvada | Writer and translator | ||
| 17:00-18:00 | 75 years of Constitution: Dalit literature, society and constitution |
Mohan Das Naimishrai | Author – Dalit Dynasty, Autobiography Apne Apne Pinjra |
| Sheoraj Singh restless | Dalit writer, professor at Delhi University | ||
| Dr. Ratan Lal | Author, Translation, Founder and Editorin-Chief of ‘AmbedkarNama’ Associate Professor at Delhi University | ||
| 18:00-18:30 | business and ethics | Govind Dholakia | Parliamentarian, Businessman, Author – Diamonds Are Forever, So Are Morals |
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