The inaugural edition of the History Literature Festival will be held on March 18-19 at Ahmedabad University, Commerce Six Roads, Navrangpura, beginning at 09:30 a.m.
The event will provide history enthusiasts with an immersive learning experience through discussions on a wide range of historical topics such as food, movies, culture, music, and business. It will bring together some of the most illustrious historians, archaeologists, and authors to tell the Indian story. There will also be immersive history exhibitions, baithaks, author interactions, and history quizzes at the Festival.
The event will have lectures by Uday S Kulkarni, Author and Retired Surgeon Commander; Arunaraje Patil, Editor, Director, Producer and the first woman technician in the film industry; Ami Ganatra, Author and Business Leader; Peggy Mohan, Historian, Author, and Academic; Chinmay Tumbe, Historian, Economist, and Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Jahnavi Phalkey, Historian, Documentary Filmmaker, and Founding Director, Science Gallery; Amarendar Dhaneshwar, Author and Hindustani Classical Singer; Shishir Saxena, Scholar of Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit and Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University; Tejaswini Niranjana, Author and Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University; Aparajith Ramnath, Science and Technology Historian and Associate Professor, Ahmedabad University; and Rahul Sarwate, Historian, Author and Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University, and several prominent speakers.
The festival is free to attend, but registration is required, which can be done at allevents.in