ELEVEN SEASONS. MANY RETURNING VOICES.

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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.

97–120 of 141 profiles

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Hindol Sengupta

Author

At ILF 2020

Navneet Gurjar

Festival voice

At ILF 2020

Neelesh Misra

Storyteller, journalist & lyricist

At ILF 2020

Piyush Mishra

Actor, poet & musician

At ILF 2015 2016 2020

Satya Vyas

Novelist

At ILF 2020

Vinod Agarwal

Festival voice

At ILF 2020

Aparna Upadhyay

Festival voice

At ILF 2019

Arun Maheshwari

Festival voice

At ILF 2019

Ashish Bagrecha

Author & poet

At ILF 2019

Belly Kanungo

Writer & creator

At ILF 2019

Gautam Chikarmane

Writer & policy researcher

At ILF 2019

Lalit Kumar

Author & accessibility advocate

At ILF 2019

Maithali Thakur

Singer

At ILF 2019

Mayur Didolkar

Fiction writer

At ILF 2019

Savi Sharma

Novelist

At ILF 2019

Tarek Fateh

Journalist & author

At ILF 2015 2016 2019

Vijay Kumar

Festival voice

At ILF 2019

Malini Awasthi

Folk singer

At ILF 2018

Narendra Kohli

Hindi author

At ILF 2018

Ruskin Bond

Author & poet

At ILF 2018

Yatindra Mishr

Poet & music writer

At ILF 2018

Yunus Khan

Broadcaster & writer

At ILF 2018

Anshu Gupta

Social entrepreneur

At ILF 2017

Bhawana Somaaya

Film journalist & author

At ILF 2016 2017

Every year. Remarkable voices.

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