After a two-year hiatus due to Corona, the Times Literature Festival re-emerged in its physical avatar with a bang this year. On February 11 and 12, 2023, the Times Literature Festival (TLF) was held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, and it witnessed the coming together of some of the world's biggest literary names and thinkers, international and Indian best-selling authors, literary agents, and publishers-- all under one roof! This gives the Times Litfest Delhi 2023 the status of being the only festival in the world to have hosted so many big names in a single edition!
In the list of participating authors were some of the world's greatest writers, speakers and thinkers. Has any literature festival ever hosted interviews of Salman Rushdie, Yuval Noah Harari, Rutger Bregman, Elif Shafak, Robin Sharma, two Booker winners - Douglas Stuart and Shehan Karunatilaka, International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree, and Nobel Laureate Abdul Razak Gurnah -- all in one edition? Times Literature Festival 2023 managed this feat by smartly interweaving physical events with the digital, and combining interviews that were taken exclusively for the Times Literature Festival over a period of time. A couple of physical interactions, such as with Yuval Noah Harari and Robin Sharma were recorded exclusively to be played for the first time at Times Literature Festival 2023.
