Asia Pacific Literary Festival kicks of

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The Asia Pacific Literary Festival kicked off on Tuesday with the Alliance University campus transformed into a landscape of light and colour during the event with art installations, bookshelves, diverse culinary carts, handicrafts, and a loom.

The inauguration that happened at The Plateau was by well-known author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik. His opening address “Is there an Indian approach to Management” was very well received. This was followed with the first keynote address by Victor Mallet, an investigative journalist, commentator, and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe.

Meanwhile, at The Cube, there were 2 panels – The first, Publishing India with the Indian Novels Collective was hosted by Menka Shivdasani. The second, New Frontiers in Speculative Fiction, was hosted by Marshall Gass.