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= Times Literature Festival Delhi =

The Times Literature Festival Delhi, popularly known as Times Litfest Delhi is an annual literary festival conducted by the world's most widely circulated English language newspaper, The Times of India. It usually occurs during the last weekend of November in the Indian capital city of New Delhi. The inaugural edition of the festival happened in the year 2015. Year 2017 shall witness the third edition of the Times Literature Festival Delhi.

The India Habitat Centre has served as the venue for the festival in its previous edition and is slotted to remain for the current year's edition as well.

The festival directors are the respective consulting editors of the Times of India, Sagarika Ghose and Nalin Mehta.

Panel discussions ranging across a plethora of themes and comprising the best of thinkers of modern India and abroad are the primary attraction of this festival.

Ruskin Bond, Amitav Ghosh, Taslima Nasreen, William Dalrymple, Arun Jaitley, P. Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor, Ramachandra Guha, Gurcharan Das, Ravish Kumar, Amish Tripathi, Devdutt Patnaik, Namita Gokhale etc. have been known to be a part of the panel line up of the festival in its past editions.

Times Litfest Delhi 2015
Times Litfest Delhi had its inaugural edition in 2015 carried out over 3 days involving more than 170 authors (including 14 international ones) and witnessing more than 80 sessions. India's then vice-president Hamid Ansari inaugurated the festival. Maidens Hotel, Civil Lines, Delhi served as the venue.

Amitav Ghosh, Wendy Doniger, Taslima Nasreen, Amit C. Chaudhri, Sadhguru etc. graced the occasion with their presence. Scintillating performances by comedian Sorabh Pant and dastango storyteller Ankit Chaddha enthralled the visitors.

"Delhi Catches Literary Fever" was the central theme of the festival celebrating the literary fervor of Delhi and its people.