Composition of speakers:
• Over 100 speakers from 12 countries
• 6 each from Bangladesh & Singapore, 8 from Pakistan, 3 from UK, 4 from USA and 1 each from Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Norway and Portugal
• Over 50 prominent speakers from India and over 50 prominent speakers from Goa
Keynote Addresses by: Dayanita Singh and Keki Daruwalla
Countries in Focus: Bangladesh and Singapore
Exclusive debut: Naomi Duguid “ multiple award-winning, world-famous food book author and expert on Asian cuisines.
Interesting Sessions:
• Exclusive showcases of the most exciting emerging literary talent from Bangladesh and Singapore
• Extraordinary lineup of historians from around the world.
• Prof Shahid Amin’s public lecture 'Recording the Bhashas and Bolis of Colonial India: G.A. Grierson, Ramgharib Chaube and the Making of the Linguistic Survey of India'
• First session of the festival features Ramchandra Guha (in conversation with Naresh Fernandes)
• Sessions hosted by The Takshashila Institution - think tank on India's strategic affairs
• Ambedkar Memorial Lectures by P Sivakami and Prof. Khalid Anis Ansari
Selected book launches:
• Angela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Zupanov’s ‘Catholic Orientalism’
• Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s ‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’
• Yvonne Vaz Ezdani’s ‘Songs of the Survivors’
• Anjum Hasan’s ‘The Cosmopolitans’
• Bharat Karnad’s ‘Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)’
• Harsh Mander’s ‘Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India’
• Heta Pandit’s ‘There's more to life than a house in Goa’
• Keki Daruwalla’s ‘Ancestral Affairs’
• Narayan Ramachandran’s ‘A Visible Hand’
• Saad Z Hossain’s ‘Escape from Baghdad!’
• Sarah Farooqui’s ‘Distance from Delhi’
• Vincy Quadros’ ‘Khell Zalo Vell’
• Mahesh Rao’s 'One Point Two Billion'
• Zac O’Yeah’s ‘Hari, Hero for Hire’
Outreach Programmes:
In 2014, the ‘Outreach Programmes’ was introduced at GALF “ where some of the delegates are invited to conduct intense and exclusive workshops and interactive sessions in colleges and the university just before and during the festival.
Cultural Programmes/ Performances:
• Performance by award winning street magicians from Delhi
• Stand up comedy by Radhika Vaz
• Performance by Esharp, band from Pakistan
• Performance by Indian-American rapper, Himanshu Suri
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