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Kenneth Chenault, Managing Director of General Catalyst, joins us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. Kenneth was previo...
10/22/2026

Kenneth Chenault, Managing Director of General Catalyst, joins us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. Kenneth was previously the Chairman and CEO of American Express from 2001 to 2018. He will discuss his memoir, Equal to the Task, in which he reflects on his personal journey, the mentors who shaped him, and his lifelong quest to realize his own potential and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.​

Fortune named him one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2014 and 2021, and TIME included him in its TIME100 Most Influential People of 2021. On his retirement, Warren Buffett called him “the gold standard for corporate leadership and the benchmark that I measure others against.”​

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to interact with him on Sunday, November 15, 3:30-5pm at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.​

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us​

Please welcome Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian to the IAAC Literary Festival 2026 with their book A Sixth of Humanit...
10/22/2026

Please welcome Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian to the IAAC Literary Festival 2026 with their book A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey. Joining them on the panel are Chip Kaye, Chairman of Warburg Pincus, and C.S. Venkatakrishnan, Group Chief Executive of Barclays.​

Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.​

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025, their book is “a definitive guide to the nation’s 75-year development odyssey.”, in the Financial Times’ words.​

Sonal Shah, chair of the board of Consumer Reports and founding director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation under President Obama, will moderate the sesion.​

It is book talk that’s not to be missed! On Sunday, November 15, 12-1:30pm at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us​

From the timeless tales we inherit to the stories we continue to tell, literature keeps the values of courage, wisdom an...
10/20/2026

From the timeless tales we inherit to the stories we continue to tell, literature keeps the values of courage, wisdom and hope alive across generations. ​

This Dussehra, as we celebrate the triumph of good over evil, we also celebrate the power of stories to move us, challenge us and bring us together. ​​

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026 for conversations and stories that stay with us long after the last page. ​​

Wishing you a very Happy Dussehra! ​

IAAC presents the Poetry Panel at the Literary Festival 2026, featuring Preeti Parikh, Poet , Subhashini Kaligotla and S...
10/19/2026

IAAC presents the Poetry Panel at the Literary Festival 2026, featuring Preeti Parikh, Poet , Subhashini Kaligotla and Sudeep Sen.
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Preeti Parikh, a Kundiman Fellow and National Poetry Series finalist, brings her debut collection Blue Selvage. These are poems of skin, cloth and indigo that read the body as an archive.​
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Subhashini Kaligotla, Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University, brings My Life Closed Twice, a collection about grief rooted in the art and literature of premodern India.​
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Sudeep Sen, winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for Anthropocene, brings Red, the second book of his Eco Trilogy.​

The session will be moderated by Ravi Shankar - Poet , the festival’s poetry curator, a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, translator and author of 15 books, who teaches creative writing at Tufts University.​

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. The session is on Saturday, November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.​

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us​

IAAC welcomes Karan Mahajan to the Literary Festival 2026. Author of The Association of Small Bombs, a National Book Awa...
10/19/2026

IAAC welcomes Karan Mahajan to the Literary Festival 2026. Author of The Association of Small Bombs, a National Book Award finalist and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year, Karan is an associate professor in Literary Arts at Brown University. ​

He joins us with The Complex, his first novel in ten years. Moving between Delhi and America, it follows the sons and daughters of SP Chopra, one of India’s political architects, as they vie for influence in a family shaped by his legacy, while India erupts in violence and long-buried secrets come to light. Karen Russell calls it “an extraordinary gift to its lucky readers.”​

The session will be moderated by Yosh*ta Singh, Chief Correspondent, United Nations and New York, for the Press Trust of India, India’s largest news wire. Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. His session is on Sunday, November 15 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.​

The session is free to attend, please register at www.iaac.us​

IAAC welcomes Arno Klein to the Literary Festival 2026. Arno first visited Ellora in 1992 with Professor Walter Spink an...
10/19/2026

IAAC welcomes Arno Klein to the Literary Festival 2026. Arno first visited Ellora in 1992 with Professor Walter Spink and has since taken more than 10,000 photographs of its caves. He joins us with the book Ellora: Cross-Fertilization of Style in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Cave Temples. ​

The book has been co-edited with Deepanjana Klein, Director of Acquisitions at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. It is the first systematic overview of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the only place where Buddhist, Hindu and Jain cave temples stand side by side. The book brings together 203 photographs, rarely seen 19th-century archival material, and essays by leading art historians, with a foreword by Naman P. Ahuja, Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University and editor of Marg.​​

The session will be moderated by Vishakha N. Desai, President Emerita of the Asia Society, which she led as President and CEO from 2004 to 2012, and Senior Advisor to Columbia Global at Columbia University.​​

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. His session is on Saturday, November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.​

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us​

Announcing Advaitavadini Kaul as one of the authors at the Literary Festival 2026. A scholar of Indian aesthetics and Ka...
10/18/2026

Announcing Advaitavadini Kaul as one of the authors at the Literary Festival 2026.

A scholar of Indian aesthetics and Kashmir’s cultural heritage who served in senior academic positions at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts for about three decades, she joins us with Kapila Jnanagarbha: Knowledge Unfolding Wisdom, a volume she conceptualised, curated and edited in memory of Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan. Its first copy was presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who addressed Dr. Vatsyayan as “Mataji.”

The session will be moderated by IAAC Vice Chairman Rakesh Kaul, author of The Last Queen of Kashmir and Dawn: The Warrior Princess of Kashmir, whose new novel WaterFire Day Zero launches at this year’s festival.

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. Her session is on Saturday, November 14, from 12:00 to 12:50 PM, at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.
The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us

IAAC welcomes Sandip Das, Alka Jena and Pallavi Das, the co-authors of The Orissan, to the Literary Festival 2026. Sandi...
10/18/2026

IAAC welcomes Sandip Das, Alka Jena and Pallavi Das, the co-authors of The Orissan, to the Literary Festival 2026. Sandip Das is the former CEO of Hutchison Essar, Maxis Communications and Reliance Jio. Alka Jena is a Bhubaneswar-based food writer, photographer and stylist. Pallavi Das is a New York-based communication strategist and associate faculty at Columbia University. All three will be in attendance.

A celebration of the food and culture of Odisha, ancient Kalinga, it traces recipes born in temple offerings, royal feasts and humble hearths, interwoven with memory, myth and forgotten lore.

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026.

Their session is on Saturday, November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us

Welcoming Neeraj Khemlani as one of the authors at the Literary Festival 2026. Former president of CBS News, where he ov...
10/18/2026

Welcoming Neeraj Khemlani as one of the authors at the Literary Festival 2026. Former president of CBS News, where he oversaw 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, CBS Mornings and Face the Nation, and an award-winning producer for 60 Minutes and ABC News, Neeraj joins us with The Coffee Can Investor: A Stock-Picker’s Journey to Build Generational Wealth.

Its idea is simple: buy a handful of great companies and leave them alone, like valuables stashed in a coffee can. Following portfolio manager Matt Ankrum’s study of 100-baggers, stocks that multiplied a hundredfold over decades, it is a patient guide to building wealth for the next generation.

The session will be moderated by IAAC Board Member Mathew Veedon, a Managing Director at Accordion with over 25 years of consulting, operating and investing experience, and a Chartered Accountant with an MBA in Finance from Yale University.

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026. His session is on Saturday, November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.

The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us

IAAC is honoured to welcome Padma Bhushan Dr. Pratibha Ray to the Literary Festival 2026. One of the most celebrated voi...
10/18/2026

IAAC is honoured to welcome Padma Bhushan Dr. Pratibha Ray to the Literary Festival 2026.

One of the most celebrated voices in Odia and Indian literature, she is a recipient of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan, and was recently conferred the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the first woman writer from Odisha to receive it.

Her landmark novel Yajnaseni retells the Mahabharata through Draupadi’s eyes and has run into more than 120 Odia editions.

The session will be moderated by IAAC Board Member Bhavani Parameswar, Executive Director and President of Indivate Inc., a US-based venture.

Join us at the IAAC Literary Festival 2026, November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall, New York City.
This session is supported by the Odisha Society of the Americas
The session is free to attend but please register at www.iaac.us

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