5.00 PMInaugural addressN. Ravi, Chairman, Kasturi & Sons, and Publisher, The Hindu Group
5.15 PMWelcome addressDr. Nirmala Lakshman, Festival Director, The Hindu Lit for Life, and Director, The Hindu Group
5.30 PMMy Life in Full: Work, Family and Our FutureIndra Nooyi in conversation with Vinay Kamath
6.15 PMShashi & Sashi Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Sashi Kumar On Life, Literature, Language and Politics
7.00 PMJungle Nama: A story for our timesAmitav Ghosh in conversation with Somak Ghoshal
8.00 PMA Viral World: Why viruses are necessaryPranay Lal in conversation with Ramya Kannan
10.30 AM Address byL.V. Navaneeth, CEO, The Hindu Group
10.35 AM Special messageSuresh Nambath, Editor, The Hindu
10.45 AMLessons of the PandemicDr. Srinath Reddy, Prof. Arun Kumar, and Dr. Gagandeep Kang in conversation with Kamini Mahadevan
11.45 AMThis is My StorySudha Kongara in conversation with Chitra Mahesh
12.45 PMSense Smell Touch: Collaborating in Theatre MakingAnuradha Kapur and Deepan Sivaraman in conversation
1.35 PMThe Song of DraupadiIra Mukhoty in conversation with Pankaja Srinivasan
4.00 PMIn The Wild: Conversations about ConservationNeha Sinha and Sanjay Gubbi in conversation with Mahesh Rangarajan
5.00 PMReclaiming GandhiSubodh Kerkar
6.15 PMMind Matters: An exploration of lifespan mental health in Covid-19 timesDr. Pratima Murthy, Dr. Shekhar Seshadri, and Dr. Soumitra Pathare in conversation with Dr. Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy
7.30 PMRunning Towards MysteryThe Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with N. Ravi
8.15 PMVote of ThanksSuresh Balakrishna, CRO, The Hindu Group