Events

Alchemist Group Sponsors Hay Festival in Kerala

In November 2011, Alchemist Group sponsored the prestigious Hay Literary Festival in Kerala. The second edition of the Hay Festival Kerala celebrated astonishing people who have the capacity to use words to make the world afresh, and to change our minds.. readmore


Alchemist Group Chairman K.D.Singh Speaks on Entrepreneurship at THiNK 2011 in Goa

Our Chairman K.D.Singh was invited to speak on Entrepreneurship at the Goa THiNK Fest 2011 in Goa organized by Tehelka and Newsweek in November 2011.

 

Hindustan Times

Tharoor to write book on India’s role in new world
New Delhi, November 17, 2011
 
After a hiatus of two years, politician-writer Shashi Tharoor is back to writing a book. And this time, it’s about India’s place in the new balanced world. Addressing a discourse ‘The New Superpowers’ chaired by Anita Anand of BBC at the Alchemist Hay Festival in Kerala....read more
 

The Times of India

Kerala set for literature gala
 

The second edition of the Hay Festival, a three-day cultural fete featuring poets, storytellers, novelists, journalists and filmmakers, begins in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. The highlight of this year's edition will be presentations of various poetic works from across the globe and a Poetry Gala with K. Satchidanandan, Simon Armitage, Twm Morys, Anupama Raju, Eurig Salisbury and others......read more

 

The Indian Express

The Hay Festival Kerala begins on November 17
 
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In its second edition in God’s Own Country, the international literary event, Hay Festival, will feature a good number of authors from the vernacular. The opening session, a conversation between M T Vasudevan Nair and M Mukundan signals the effort on the part of the organisers to make good for the scant representation of regional writing at last year’s Hay....read more

 

The Telegraph

Hay Festival Kerala: Malayalam poets and the Big Bang

Esteemed British authors are joining local star writers for the second Hay Festival Kerala in the elegant Kanakakunnu Palace, explains Sameer Rahim.

Speaking at the inaugural Hay Festival Kerala last year the novelist, diplomat and local MP Shashi Tharoor recalled how a passion for literature had shaped his upbringing: “The nature of my early Kerala experience has been one of important literature, ideas and words.....read more

 

IBN Live

The Hay Festival Kerala begins on November 17

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In its second edition in God’s Own Country, the international literary event, Hay Festival, will feature a good number of authors from the vernacular. The opening session, a conversation between M T Vasudevan Nair and M Mukundan signals the effort on the part of the organisers to make good for the scant representation of regional writing at last year’s Hay......read more