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Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the multiple award winning author of Ten Percent Thief listed as one of the 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire Magazine. She's the first Indian woman to be shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the winner of the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award, and a Locus Award finalist. Her new novel, Interstellar Megachef, is out November 2024. She’s sometimes a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.’s FarmVille and Mafia Wars, among other games. She lives in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India.

Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Novelist, Writer & Game Designer, India

SESSIONS

15 Nov 2024

7:20 pm

Tata Theatre

THE GREAT DEBATE: AI IS A THREAT TO HUMANITY

For the motion: Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Sahil Kulshrestha

Against the motion: Marcus du Sautoy, Rajesh Parikh

Chair: Govindraj Ethiraj


Presented by Prime Securities Limited

16 Nov 2024

2:00 pm

Godrej Theatre

SOOTHSAYERS?

Launch of Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef and Gautam Bhatia's The Sentence; followed by a panel discussion on the imagined societies in Indian science fiction


Appupen, Gautam Bhatia, Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Chair: Peter Griffin

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