Ahead of this edition, festival director Rachna Singh Davidar goes into the details about what is to come. Shantanu Tungare, who’s going to run the session, speaks about ‘creating deep fakes deep faking yourself before deep fake deep fakes you’. What is AI’s involvement in a literature festival today? We should never forget that translations need to be quite brilliant in order to succeed and that isn’t always the case. Satoshi Yagisawa brings his beloved Morisaki bookshop series to Chennai fans in his first-ever appearance at an international literature festival.

Source: The Hindu January 13, 2026 06:30 UTC