With an open-air library featuring Penguin Random House’s books from March 15-20, 2016, open to all between 11 am and 7 pm daily, and followed by sessions with highly acclaimed speakers from 7 pm onwards, (every evening) at the Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, Spring Fever 2016 has returned.
Spring Fever Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival hosted by Penguin Random House India celebrates its eighth anniversary this March with an outstanding selection of literary and cultural highlights that reflect the success of its past years. With a lineup of highly respected and popular speakers, Spring Fever 2016 will bring to you plenty more to capture your imagination.
It is a one-of-a-kind celebration of books, reading, music, and much more, and presents a great opportunity for Delhi’s young audience to interact with their favourite authors. It is the first festival of its kind organised by an Indian publisher. There will be an open-air library (a browser’s paradise) at the Amphitheatre during the day. In the evenings, the same space is transformed into a hub of literary bustle, featuring key authors, previews of forthcoming and current attractions, panel discussions around interesting and relevant topics, usually followed by music performances.
The evening events are very popular and attract an involved audience of booklovers. Sessions in the past have featured well-loved such as Amitav Ghosh, Ruskin Bond, Vikram Seth, Anupam Kher, William Dalrymple, Ravinder Singh, Gurcharan Das, Rama Bijapurkar, Mira Nair, and Raghu Rai.
The highlight authors for this year are: Anand Kumar, Emraan Hashmi, Gulzar, Hindol Sengupta, Husain Haqqani, luke Coutinho, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neeraj Kumar, Payal Gidwani Tiwari, Ramachandra Guha, Shashi Tharoor, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Sonali Bendre Behl, Srijan Pal Singh, Sunil Khilnani, Sunil Sethi, Twinkle Khanna.