Crime Writers Festival

On a cold Saturday afternoon, on 17 January, I had the fortunes to attend the Crime Writers Festival, organised by the Crime Writer’s Forum of South Asia, in association with Siyahi, the literary agency, powered by The Hindustan Times, at India Habitat Centre.

The following are the sessions I attended:

Corporate Crime: The Rise and Fall of Rajat Gupta/ Anita Raghavan in conversation with Suhel Seth

Tickled to Death/ Zac O’Yeah, Tarquin Hall, Patrick Bryson, in conversation with Jane De Suza

The Other Side of Midnight: Sexualisation of violence/ Dipankar Gupta, Julien Vedrenne, Trude Teige, Lady Kishwar Desai in conversation

In a Strange Land/ Caryl Ferey in conversation with Amrita Tripathi

The World of Ibn-e-Safi/ Mahmood Farooqui with Khalid Jawed

Byomkesh Baksi and the Bangla Bloodhound/ Dibakar Banerjee, Dhriman Chaterji in conversation with Rajit Kapur