Meet the Speakers | Banaras Lit Fest

BLF SPEAKERS

Our Speakers in 4th Edition - 2026

Padma Vibhushan Anupam Kher

H. H. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar

Pullela Gopichand

Damodar Mauzo

Gagan Gill

Vishal Krishna

Justice D. Y. Chandrachud

Pratik Trivedi

Padma shri Malini Awasthi

Tisca Chopra

Manoj Tiwari

Amit Tandon

Padma Shri Sheen kaaf Nizam

Madan Mohan Mishra Danish

Dr. Vishnu Saxena

Piyush Mishra

Sundeep Sharma

Rubika Liyaquat

Banibrata Mahanta

Pt. Rajendra Prasanna (basuri)

Lt. Gen. Arun Ananthanarayan

Renu Sud Karnad

Vyomesh Shukla

Roli Mankhand

Dr. Neha Pandey

Dr. Sarika Shrivastava

Dr. Saptgirish Rambhatla

Dr. Naveen Khattry

Dr. Satyajit Pradhan

Nishant Malaviya

Prabhat Mishra

Sangita Kapoor

Namita Gokhle

Shahid Anjum

Moien Shadab

Anirudh Misra

Prof. Rehman Musawwir

Dr. Sonam Pandey

Pragya Mishra

Archana Garodia Gupta

Uttam Ojha

Khushi Shrivastava

Mangala Kapoor

Kamlesh Verma

Prof. Surendra Pratap Singh

Raghavendra HR

Umesh Bhatia

Alok Paradkar

Sister Sangeeta

Dr. Ashish Kumar Jha

Rati Shankar Tripathi

Dr. Abhishek Vikram Singh

Col. Sandeep Sharma

Praveen Kumar

Baliraj Pandey

Priyanka Shah

Jagaanath Dubey

Devendra Kumar Devesh

Pranesh Debnath

M S Murthy

Mr. Abhijit Roy

Padma Shri Dr. Rajnikant

Dr. Indresh

Bhagirath Jalan

Dr. Piyoosh Rai

Ashish Tripathi

Pramod kumar pandey

Ankit Prasad

Dr. Jyoti Rohilla

Parijat Chakraborty

Manjula Chaturvedi

Dr. Nand Kishor Singh

Pandit Shivnath Mishra

Arjan Singh

Padma Bhushan Saajan Mishra

Padma Shri Tilak Gitai

Padma Shri Ashok Kumar Vishwas

Vidya Shah

Ashutosh Kumar Pandey

Dr. Sneha Gupta

Dr. Neelam Ohri

Abhijeet Singh

Nishant Malaviya

Pradeep Madhok

Bhaichung Bhutia

Prem Shankar Jha

M. J. Akbar

Manjeera Ganguly

Olympian Lalit Upadhyay

Shinie Antony

J. Sushil

Arunava Sinha

Trinetra Dubey

Abhishek Tiwari

Durgesh Shukla

Ambrish Thakur

Sarita Jain

Dr. Balwant Singh Dhillon

Damdaar Banarasi

M. M. Faruqui 'Lilliput'

Vasu Gupta

Sanjay Gupta

Manish Khurana

Simi Malhotra

Vivek Chaturvedi

Ravi Prakash Gupta

Parag Pawan

Manisha Khatate

Ashwani Kumar

Rajni Gupta

Ravi Dutt Bajpai

Awadhesh Pradhan

Pratima Gupta

Kamlesh Kamal

Rahul Pandita

Yatindra Nath Chaturvedi

Dhawal Prakash

Anshuman Rai

Sourav Chakraborty

Harshit Shyam

Rahul & Rohit Mishra

Pt. Sajan Misra

Dharmendra Singh

Vishwanath Misra

Amitabh Bhattacharya

Yugal Kishore Joshi

Mrityunjay Kumar Singh

Syed Mohd Irfan

Vineet Kumar

Avinash Karn

Akriti Vigya

Dan Morrison

Rakesh Kumar Singh

Dr. Prabhat Ranjan

Pankaj Mishra

Keshav Kumar Karna

Prof. Sanjay Kumar

Prabhakar Kumar Mishra

Pankaj Chaturvedi

Saurabh Chakravarty

Chandra Shekhar Verma

Dr. Debiprosad Duari

Ashutosh Thakur

Alka Pramod

Milee Ashwarya

Dr. Krishna Gupta

Prof. Divya Tanwar

Prof. Jasim Mohammad

Pankaj Bhargava

Ashutosh Shukla

Puneet Bhatia

Dayashankar Mishra

Ravindra Jaiswal

Uttama Dixit

Dr. Shri Prakash Shukla

Prof. Awdhesh Pradhan

Sandeep Murarka

Prof. K. K. Aggarwal

Atulya Mishra

Dr. Supriya Shah

Tridev Pandey

Jayanti Ranganathan

Prof. Chandrakala Tripathi

Prof. Siddharth Singh

Mehul Patel

Dr. Sadanand Shahi

Mukul Kumar

Siniwali Sharma

Nidhi Narwal

Ravi Yadav

Bahnishikha Das

Prof. Dhananjay Singh

Dr. Aparna Singh

Dibyendu Choudhury

Shinjini Kumar

Kalpana Ajayan

Dr. Aditya Shukla

Dr. Dhaval Maheta

Dr. Daulat Ram Sharma

Akhilesh Jee

Abhigyan Prakash

Yash V. Daiv

Abhishek Kaul

Kashyap kompella

Prof. Amitabh Upadhyay

Manish Khatri

Prof. Sunil Kumar Vishwakarma

V. Umashankar

Vijay ji

Manish Pushkale

Prof. Rajesh Yadav

keiichiro kimori

Tamerat Siltan Tadesse

Dr. Gopal Prasad

Dr. Binod K. Chaudhary

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Nilanjana Ghosh

Anuradha Goyal

Akshay Singh

Vivek Agrawal

Akhilesh Upadhyay

Chinki Sinha

Dhananjay Singh

Lt Gen Anant Narayan

Pratap Somvanshi

Rajgopal Singh Verma

Amar Kumar Kushwaha

Rumi Laskar Bora

Pravin Kumar

Kathakar Ashok

Vijay Manohar Tiwari

Akhilesh Jha

Vikas kumar jha

Mahadev Toppo

Dr. Kamal Mohan Chunnu

Uday Prakash

Srinivasan Ramani

Abhay K. Nalanda

Aslam Hasan

Renu Hussain

Dr. Ruchi Chaturvedi

Shlesh Gautam

Arun Kamal

Dr. Neerja Madhav

Ashok Vajpeyi

Dr. Sophia Pathai

Ranjit Hoskote

Ganesh Narayandas Devy

Siva Prasad Juluri

Dr. Vivek Agrawal

Dr. Tarun Agarwal

Dr. Boria Majumdar

IAS Chandan Sinha

Anil Maheshwari

Peggy Ramesar Mohan

Mamta Kalia

Gurcharan Das

Bhavika Govil

Kanishka Gupta

Sanghamitra Chakraborty

Urmila Shirish

Premanka Goswami

Nand Kishor Acharya

Radhika lyenger

Udayan Vajpeyi

Iqbal Ashhar

Rajesh Reddy

Purushottam Agrawal

Nilotpal Mrinal

Ankita Singh

Prof. Badri Narayan

Lalit Upadhyay

Himanshu Bajpai

Mahua Sen

Atul K Thakur

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