4th Dec, 2022 just became a Sunday to remember! Ira is just recovering from a week long viral, with some remnant cold there. We had registered for the Bangalore Literature Festival but thought would miss it.
Woke up this morning and decided to go for a short while. Ira was super excited that she would get to listen to and meet some authors, and may also get some books signed by them.
We did the metro ride and landed at The Lalit Ashok. The place where the CLF tents were, was buzzing with excitement and kids :) Ira went to the whale tales segment, did a drawing and was happy to show that her whale flew :)
While she was at that tent, I managed to catch a few minutes of the panel with Honey Irani, Farhan Akhtar, Shantanu Ray where Honey Irani's new children's book was being released.
We also attended the session where Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan was talking about poetry, rhyming and the role of memorization. While I went to pick her book with another friend, Ira waited in queue and they had a little chat. Spoke about acrostic poetry and Ira shared a poem she wrote with the word Prize. Ira also got the book by Honey Irani autographed. My friend Chandra and her son Gugul also had come and we all had book loots to carry back. I sure had a thrilled Eight year old with me. We also picked a few more books from a larger lot she initially chose. However, Ira wished there were more graphic novels for children.
By then, Dadu had arrived and we walked around, and soaked in the happy excitement all around. As a child, Baba took me to the Calcutta book Fair and I remember being in awe of it's vastness. A lot of experiences of book fairs, book store visits as a child and then a teen are with Baba. So, he joining us today was a happy occurence in many many ways, as Ira held his hand and took to show the bubble station in the CLF zone.
We then went to Go Native and had a fabulous almost vegan lunch! Happy few hours and we braced ourselves for the journey home. Ira finished one of the books already at lunch and is now looking forward to the next edition of the BLF, just like me :). I hope we have a separate Children's Literature Festival, because while getting them to do their things, we parents definitely miss out some good panel discussions. I hope someone is listening. <3
Ira ke Papa was missed and we cannot wait to tell him all about our first BLF experience together.
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