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Preview | Gathering of the Do-arists
PremiumWordsmith: Germaine Greer will speak at The Alchemist Hay Festival. Photograph by Javier Salcedo Rico.
There are those who talk, and those who do. And thankfully, then, those who do and then talk about what they do. The festival season has just begun, with some powerful thinkers debating everything from medicine to film. There are some usual suspects, duplications and out-of-the-box invitees.
Tehelka THINK
Bambolim, Goa, till 6 November
The Alchemist Hay Festival
Thiruvananthapuram,17-19 November
Politician Shashi Tharoor will be here too! For this multilingual poetry and culture fest’s second year in India come poets in Spanish, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Welsh, Icelandic and English, as well as Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans and biographer of Mao Zedong, and Germaine Greer, who will speak on Shakespeare’s lovers. The venue will be the stunning Kanakakunnu Palace in Thiruvananthapuram. Last year, Sting ended the fest, jamming with Bob Geldof, so Hay is definitely one to watch out for.
Delegate passes of ₹ 2,500 (which will buy you lunches and dinners with the invitees) are available at the venue. There is no charge for attending the fest. For details, visit https://www.hayfestival.com/kerala/
WikiConference India
Mumbai, 18-20 November
WikiConference India is a wonderland for new technology geeks. It will feature sessions on integration of OpenStreetMaps, crowd sourcing, operating Ajax and Jquery systems, and on incorporating Wiki’s research abilities in Marathi, Telugu and other Indian languages. It will also address issues relating to gender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and women.
You can register at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Registration. The cost is ₹ 1,550, plus ₹ 50 processing fee for individuals. The venue is Mumbai University. Registration will be open till the available 700 seats are filled.
TEDxGateway
Mumbai, 27 November
TEDx’s day-long Gateway, a think fest advised by Sangita Jindal, Ralph Simon (father of the ringtone), Anant Rangaswami (editor at Firstpost.com, a digital newsroom) and music mogul Seymour Stein, has compellingly interesting speakers, such as Suneet Singh Tuli, creator of the $35 (around ₹ 1,715) tablet “Aakash", Shabnam Virmani, who runs the Kabir Project, Anu Sridharan, who works in water purification technologies, and Kranthi Kiran Vistakula, founder of the Litre of Light movement. Yashraj Akashi, curator, TEDxGateway, explains that those wanting to attend will be screened based on submitted essays. Only 150 fellows will be selected. The venue is Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai. TEDx is a part of the non-profit organization TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). For registrations, visit www.tedxgateway.com/ticketing till 15 November. Passes cost ₹ 2,100. To apply for a TEDx sponsorship, visit www.tedxgateway.com/attend.aspx
INK
Jaipur, 8-11 December
The posher version of the fests is the INK Conference 2011, in association with TED, from 8-11 December at the Jaipur Marriott Hotel. Themed “Power of the Journey", it includes an impressive line-up of speakers from the first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari to oceanographer David Gallo, music conductor Italy Talgam and perfumer Yann Vasnier. You can register (it also has a screening process) till 20 November. The fee is ₹ 1 lakh for Indians. To register, visit https://www.inktalks.com
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