ELEVEN SEASONS. MANY RETURNING VOICES.

Speaker archives

Discover the writers, poets, artists and thinkers who joined us from 2015 to 2025. Follow a familiar voice across the years.

OUR FESTIVAL HISTORY

All our festival voices.

141 speaker profiles across 11 seasons. Each card brings their festival years together.

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Thomas Mathew

Author & retired IAS officer

At ILF 2024

Anand Ranganathan

Scientist & author

At ILF 2021 2023

Chetan Bhagat

Novelist & columnist

At ILF 2023

Chinmayi Tripathi

Singer-songwriter & poet

At ILF 2023

Damodar Maozo

Konkani writer

At ILF 2023

Gitanjali J Angmo

Educator & social entrepreneur

At ILF 2023

Gyan Chaturvedi

Satirist & novelist

At ILF 2015 2016 2019 2023

Leeladhar Mandloi

Poet & critic

At ILF 2015 2023

Manisha Kulshreshth

Fiction writer

At ILF 2020 2023

Neeraj Arya’s Kabir Cafe

Music ensemble

At ILF 2023

Niyaz Khan

Festival voice

At ILF 2023

Prayag Shukl

Poet & art critic

At ILF 2019 2023

Preeti Shenoy

Author & illustrator

At ILF 2023

Sonam Wangchuk

Engineer & educator

At ILF 2023

Annu Kapoor

Actor & presenter

At ILF 2022

Arun Kamal

Hindi poet & critic

At ILF 2017 2022

Ashwin Sanghi

Novelist

At ILF 2018 2022

Bharavi Jani

Entrepreneur & author

At ILF 2022

Deepti Naval

Actor, director & writer

At ILF 2022

Devdutt Pattanaik

Author & mythologist

At ILF 2018 2022

Durjoy Dutta

Novelist & screenwriter

At ILF 2022

Gagan Gill

Poet & prose writer

At ILF 2019 2022

J. Sai Deepak

Lawyer & author

At ILF 2022

Leeladhar Jagudi

Hindi poet

At ILF 2015 2016 2022

Every year. Remarkable voices.

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