April 26: Speaker in panel on ‘Culture Wars: Food, Love, Prayer, Festivals, Films’, seminar on ‘The Crises of India’s Religious Minorities’, Constitutional Conduct Group, Speaker’s Hall, Constitution Club, Delhi, 3-7 pm.

April 24: Valedictory Address, ‘Voicing the Untold’, Lexicon 2025 – Annual Literary Festival, FET Auditorium, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, 4 pm.

April 16: Speaker in panel on ‘Meritorious Writing: Navigating Narratives, Ethics and Contorted Truths’, Ijazah, The Writers’ Colloquium, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

April 9: ‘Through Word and Lens: Gendered Ways of Seeing’, talk organised by OEUVRE and WAQIF (Department of Sociology), Hindu College, Delhi, 1 pm.

April 3: ‘Imagining a Better World’, Talk and readings at the annual fest Satya, Gandhi Ambedkar Study Circle (GASC), Room NCLT, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 2 pm.

March 29: ‘The Writer’s Life, the Writer’s Craft’, Online talk for the Women’s Study Circle, Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati, Assam, 12 noon.

March 28: Reading at the Centre for German Studies (CGS) Literary Club, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, Delhi, 1130 am.

March 26: Chair, Discussion on the LeftWord edition of Art in the Age of Imperialism and Socialism, Essays, Poems, Prose, and a Playlet by Peter Hacks, eds. Shaswati Mazumdar and Kai Kohler, Studio Safdar, Shadipur, Delhi, 530 pm.

January 18: Speaker in the panel on ‘This Too Is India: Conversations on Diversity and Dissent’, People’s Literature Festival, TEFLAS, JNU, 2-4 pm.

December 17: ‘The Everyday Struggle of Women and Children in Conflict Zones’, Susheela Gopalan Memorial Lecture, LIC Employees Union, Mission Road, Bengaluru, 3:30 pm.

December 15: Speaker in the panel on ‘Dissent is a language’, Bangalore Literary Festival 2024, Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, 1245 pm.

December 14: Conversation with translator Vanamala Viswanatha on ‘Bride in the Hills: A Kuvempu Classic’, Bangalore Literary Festival 2024, Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, 1130 am.

December 9: Release of This Too Is India: Conversations on Diversity and Dissent, Westland Books, Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi, 6 pm. Speakers include eminent historian Romila Thapar and writers Githa Hariharan, Seema Chishti and Vaasanthi, with human rights activist Usha Ramanathan as moderator.

November 9: Speaker at Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) Conclave, Constitution Club, New Delhi, 3-6 p.m.

October 19: Release of Nene Keratanni, Telugu translation of I Have Become the Tide, by Malupu Books, Ravindra Bharati, Mini Hall, Hyderabad, 6 pm. Speakers include literary critic A.K. Prabhakar, Editor of Andhra Jyoti K. Srinivas, novelist K. Malleeswari, writer Aakar Patel, translators Volga and N.Venugopal, with publisher Malupu Bal Reddy as convenor.

June 27: ‘Writing and Resistance’, Conversation with K. Satchidanandan, Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Thrissur, 5 pm.

February 21: ‘Making History with Literature: Women’s Texts and Contexts,’ Online Keynote Address, National Seminar on Time and Text: Indian History and Literature in Dialogue, Farook College, Kozhikode, 10 am.

January 20: ‘Beyond the Self: Reading and Writing Literature in the Real World,’ The third Satyam Jha Memorial Lecture, Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi, 4 pm.

December 14: Speaker, Launch of Prabir Purkayastha’s memoir Keeping Up the Good Fight: From the Emergency to the Present Day, Press Club of India, 5:30 pm.

July 17: Introductory Remarks, Online Training Programme on Children’s Literature: Reading, Writing and Publishing, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, 10:30 am.

December 10: Conversation with Saeed Mirza and Nachiket Patwardhan at the launch of Mirza’s book, I Know the Psychology of Rats, IIC Annexe, New Delhi, 6 pm.

October 1: Discussion on Zoom of The Thousand Faces of Night in The Abstract Room with readers, 9 pm.

September 8: Talking Poetry: A book of conversations with Ashok Vajpeyi
by Ramin Jahanbegloo (published by Oxford University Press)
Githa Hariharan, Sudhir Chandra, and Apoorvanand speak about the book to be released by Dr. Ashis Nandy. Lecture Hall – I. India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi. 06:00pm

July 18: “Writing the World: Translation as the Writer’s Metaphor” talk at NIT Trichy’s Translation Training Programme titled ‘Text and Context in Translation’ in virtual mode in collaboration with National Translation Mission, Mysuru and Tamil Nadu Textbook & Educational Services Corporation.

July 14: Discussion on Naa Aleya Ubbaravaade, Kannada translation of I Have Become the Tide, Navakarnataka Publications, Pusthakapreethi, Monthly Book Chat, Basavanagudi Bookshop, Bangalore. Speakers include Professor Ravikumar Bagi, translator N. Gayathri and Githa Hariharan. Moderator H.G. Jayalaxmi.

July 10: Book Release – Naa Aleya Ubbaravaade, Kannada translation of I Have Become the Tide, Navakarnataka Publications, Samakaleena Vedike and Hitaishini Mahila Adhyayana Kendra, Bangalore. Speakers include Professor Rajendra Chenni, writer Saraswathi, translator N. Gayathri, Githa Hariharan, and B. R. Manjunath of the Samakaleena Samajika Samskritha Vedhike. Presided by the Editor of Hosathu, Siddagowda Patil.