An Author’s Afternoon presented by Shree Cement on 28th November, 2013 featured Sudha Shah at Taj Bengal, Kolkata. The event organised by Prabha Khaitan Foundation in association with Siyahi featured a young writer Devapriya Roy in conversation with Sudha Shah.
An Author’s Afternoon on 30th September, 2013, featured Tanya Mendonsa in a conversation with entrepreneur and animal activist Nilanjanaa Senguptaa at Taj Bengal, Kolkata. The event was presented by Shree Cement along with Prabha Khaitan Foundation, t2 and Siyahi.
An Author’s Afternoon celebrated its first birthday with Javed Akhtar and filmmaker Sangeeta Datta on August 23, 2013 at the Taj Bengal, Kolkata, presented by Shree Cement along with Prabha Khaitan Foundation.
An Author’s Afternoon July 19, 2013, session, the ninth in the series, took off with renowned author and journalist Rahul Pandita at The Taj Bengal, Kolkata. This author’s critically acclaimed book Hello Bastar – The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement formed the focus of the interaction. His other eminent books include Our Moon has Blood Clots (based on eviction of Kashmiri Hindus) and Absent State co-authored with Neelesh Mishra.
Vikram Sampath was the guest at the 16th session of An Author’s Afternoon, presented by Shree Cement, on 21st April, 2014 at the Taj Bengal, Kolkata. Teacher, music researcher and translator Arpita Chatterjee engaged him in a conversation that touched upon the topics on Vikram’s writings and life.
An Author’s Afternoon on 16th April, 2013 with author Kunal Basu as guest and Churni Ganguly as conversationalist at Taj Bengal, Kolkata was one of the most interesting session. It focussed on his love for Kolkata and his next novel about a male sex worker.
The sixth edition of An Authors Afternoon featured Anupam Kher on 14th January, 2013, at The Taj Bengal, Kolkata. Ina Puri engaged him in a conversation covering topics like books, films and the power of failure.
English politician and novelist par excellence, Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, was the guest at the fourth session of An Authors Afternoon, presented by Shree Cement, on 15 December, 2012, at the Taj Bengal Chambers.
An Author’s Afternoon on November 19, 2012, presented by Shree Cement, was a tete a tete with best selling young Indian author Amish Tripathy. Actress June Malia engaged him in a coversation that touched upon topics like “Shiva – The dude”, Bengali women and so on.