Over the next four days, Kozhikode, the city of music, food and football will live, literally, up to its newest tag, City of Literature.
The seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival - the first after UNESCO named Kozhikode a City of Literature – opens on Thursday. The festival, to be held at its regular venue on the Kozhikode beach, will bring to the city an exciting list of speakers, from across the country and abroad.
This edition of the KLF will feature some 500 speakers and 300-odd sessions. The speakers include Raghuram Rajan, Kailash Satyarthi, William Dalrymple, Piyush Pandey, Prahlad Kakkar, Shashi Tharoor, Anita Nair, Perumal Murugan, Abraham Verghese, Resul Pookutty, T.M. Krishna, T.P. Sreenivasan, Mallika Sarabhai, P. Sainath, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Amish Tripathi, Alka Pande, Prakash Raj, Sheela, Shakeela, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Brinda Karat, Palanivel Thiagarajan, M. Mukundan, K. Satchidanandan, Zacharia, C.V. Balakrishnan, N.S. Madhavan, S. Hareesh, Benyamin, T.D. Ramakrishnan, K.R. Meera, V.J. James, Santhosh Aechikkanam and K. Ajitha.
