AajTak Literature 2024: The Sahitya Aaj Tak program began at the 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 and Surendra Sharma will participate.
Many interesting sessions took place on the first day of Sahitya Aaj Tak. Many eminent personalities participated in them. Rapper Badshah, storyteller Devi Chitralekha, poet and Rajya Sabha (Congress) MP Imran Pratapgarhi, scientist and writer Gauhar Raza, bhajan singer Anup Jalota, famous screenwriter Nilesh Mishra and famous Hindi lyricist Prasoon Joshi graced the program.
There will be many wonderful sessions at this year’s Mahakumbh. Here we will tell you how to go to ‘Sahitya Aaj Tak’ and be a part of its special programs.
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November 23, Saturday, Halla Bol Chaupal, Stage 1
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | |
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | I should do something like this.. | Arjun Pandey | singer |
| 12:00-12:30 p.m. | a thief came to my house |
fair |
singer and composer |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | comic poets 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 winner | ||
| Dr. Popular Meeruti | Poet, writer and winner of the Kaka Hathrasi award | ||
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Tribute to Pankaj Udhas | Anoop Jalota | Padmashree, singer, musician and actor |
| Talat Aziz | Singer, Musician and Actor | ||
| Sudeep Banerjee | Singer and musical director | ||
| Alok Srivastava | Poet | ||
| 2:30-3:30 p.m. | You have to cross the limit… | Jubin Nautiyal | singer |
| 18:00-19:00 afternoon | Aaj Tak Sahitya Jagriti Samman | Honored by the President of India | |
| 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Gulzar Sahab!!! | Gulzar | Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, Sahitya Akademi, Jnanpith, Oscar and Grammy award winner |
| 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | Sufi meeting… | Kabul Bukhari | singer |
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November 23, Saturday, stage 2, Dastak Darbar
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Against war… | bodhisattva | Bharat Award winner Poet Bhushan Agarwal |
| Ashutosh Dubey | Poet, winner of the Raza Prize, by the way | ||
| Vivek Chaturvedi | Poet and recipient of Spandan Samman | ||
| Afternoon1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Hindu civilization: issues of identity and symbol | Pawan K. Varma | Diplomatic writer, former Rajya Sabha member |
| Rahul Dev | Language Worker, Honorary Advisor, Parliamentary Research Initiative | ||
| Akshay Mukul | Author, writer, rebel, soldier, Geeta Press and the creation of Hindu India | ||
| 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | 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 honoured. | ||
| Jitendra Srivastava | Poet, writer, on the back of Kaal Mriga | ||
| 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Crisis of Hindi literature. | Mamta Kalia | Author and recipient of Vyas Samman |
| Shiva idol | Writer and Shrilal Shukla IFFCO Award Winner | ||
| Chandrakala Tripathi | Author, Channa Tum Ugiho | ||
| 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | 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 |
| 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | Queen Mushaira | Dr Nusrat Mehdi | poetry |
| Alina Itrat | poetry | ||
| Hina Rizvi | poetry | ||
| Jyoti Azad | poetry | ||
| prerna pratap | poetry | ||
| Poonam Ghazal | poetry |
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November 23, Saturday – Stage 3, Sahitya Tak
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Will Hindi/Devanagari be lost? | Dr. Suresh Pant | Language expert, writer, with words. |
| Rahul Dev | Linguistic Activist, Honorary Advisor, Honorary Advisor, Speaker’s Research Initiative, Parliament of India | ||
| Pro. introduction das | Language expert and writer | ||
| kamlesh kamal | Language expert, writer, language solver | ||
| 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | There is writing beyond stories… | Anulata Raj Nair | author of the wildflower girl |
| Shikha Varshney | Author of the London Diary, Feathers of the Feet and Reflections of the Mind | ||
| Divya Vijay | Writer of life to the sound of algos and locked in drawers | ||
| sanjay pastor | Author of Ek Siyah Firdaus and Zindagi Zero Mile | ||
| 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | From the past to the present: in search of heroes | Vishwas Patil | Sahitya Akademi award-winning author |
| joshi couple | Author: Agnikaal, History of Singapore Water, Blessings and Curses, Women Warriors in Indian History | ||
| Printing. materials team | Babar: author of The King of the Chessboard | ||
| 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Bollywood Biographies… | yunus khan | Author of Shailendra |
| sahar zaman | Author: ‘Talat Mahmood The Definitive Biography’ | ||
| 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | spirituality and performance | Akhilendra Mishra | Writer, film and television actor. |
| 16:00-16:45 p.m. | 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 and writer, ‘Love Squirrel Heart Walnut’, ‘Glass Girl in Steam House’, ‘The ship grows not from the shore but from the water’ | ||
| Beautiful goswami | Poet and writer, sadness is my mother tongue and the forest. | ||
| instruction background | 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, Joint Secretary (Home Ministry) | ||
| Abhay’s | IFS, Poet, DDG- Indian Council for 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 |
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Day 3, November 24 – Sunday, stage 1, Halla Bol-Chaupal
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | |
| 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Those losses… | Hargun Kaur | Singer |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Politics and literature together | Dr Shashi Tharoor | Writer, former diplomat, bureaucrat, deputy |
| 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Aam Jahe Munde V made it special.. | Parmish Verma | Singer and performer |
| 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Poets conference | Dr Hariom Panwar | Poet |
| Vishnu Saxena | Poet | ||
| Dr. Shiv Om Ambar | Poet | ||
| Dr. Kirti Kale | Poet | ||
| Shashi Shreya | Poet | ||
| 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | The thing is Oscar… | Ravi Kishan | Actor, politician, deputy |
| 16:00-18:00 pm | Great Mushaira | Wasim Barelvi | Poet |
| Farhat Ehsaas | Poet | ||
| Nawaz Deobandi | Poet | ||
| Shakeel Azmi | poet and lyricist | ||
| Turaj | Poet | ||
| azhar iqbal | Poet | ||
| Gautam Rajrishi | Poet and author of the hashtag book | ||
| Alok Srivastava | Poet | ||
| 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | What did you get… Musical Concert – Grand Finale? | Shreya Ghoshal | singer |
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Day 3 – November 24, Sunday, stage 2, Dastak Darbar
| Time | session name | spokesman | |
| 12:00-1:00 p.m. | 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 female IPS of United Andhra Pradesh | ||
| Dr. Meeran Chadha Borwankar | IPS (retd), Maharashtra’s first female writer – Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief | ||
| 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Past, heritage and our today | Neelima Dalmia Aadhaar | Writer – ‘Father Dearest: The Life and Times of RK Dalmia and a Secret Diary of Kasturba, Radha: The Princess of Barsana’ |
| Lakshmi Puri | Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations; Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, author of ‘Swallowing the Sun: A Novel’ | ||
| ring finger | Sahitya Akademi Recipient, Writer – Digant in the Basket, Rough Palms, Doob-Dhan | ||
| 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | factionalism in Hindi literature | Ganesh Pandey | Poet, critic, writer: ‘The truth of criticism, notes of criticism’ |
| Krishna myth | Poet, critic, writer – Hindnama, Rekhte Ke Beej, Jali Kitab | ||
| Om Nisjal | Poet, critic, writer: “Keep my pain by my bed, let someone inside me sing in tune” | ||
| Prem Janmejay | Satirist, writer – Horny Asshole, KYC of Satire | ||
| 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | 100 years of RSS | Vijay Trivedi | Journalist, author of Sangha Sharanam Gachchami |
| Ashutosh | Hindu journalist, writer Rashtra, ‘The crown prince, the gladiator and hope: battle for change’ ‘Anna: 13 days that woke up India’ | ||
| Sudhanshu Trivedi | BJP leader, Rajya Sabha MP | ||
| 16:00-17:00 pm | Brothel stories from Banaras to Lahore | Vidya Shah | Singer and writer, ‘Jalsa: Indian women and their journeys from the living room to the studio’ |
| Manjari Chaturvedi | Classical dancer, creator of Sufi Kathak, restorer of court 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 Dramatic Arts, Writer, Film and Television Actor | ||
| 18:00-18:30 pm | Do they mention you or…? | To Turaz | Poet |
| 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Sham-e-Ghazal- Legends of Urdu Poets | deep banerjee | singer |
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Third day, Sunday, November 24, stage 3: Sahitya Tak
| Time | session name | Speaker/Artist | |
| 12:00-13:00 | On crime street… | 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 Pandey | Writer and politician | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Say 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 poet and musical artist | ||
| Durga Prasad Panda | Bilingual Oriya poet, translator and critic | ||
| Mehul Devkala | Gujarati poet and award-winning filmmaker | ||
| 15:00-16:00 | 75 years of independence: female characters changing over time | Usha Priyamvada | Author: Fifty-Five Pillars Red Walls and Arkadipat, American Professor Emeritus 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 Winner | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | The world opens up through translation | Prabhat Singh | Journalist, writer and translator |
| soft morning | 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, Translator, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ‘AmbedkarNama’, Associate Professor at Delhi University | ||
| 18:00-18:30 | business and ethics | Govind Dholakia | Parliamentarian, businessman, author: diamonds are forever, so is morality |
